Kevin Woodley
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541 appearances
2 recordings
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
Kevin Woodley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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that will quickly lose confidence if they feel like every mistake they make ends up in the back of the net.
There is real value in having goaltending that the rest of the team builds trust in, especially as you're trying to get them to buy in defensively.
Connor Hellebuck, when he won the Hart and the Vesna, had the highest or one of the top three expected save percentage in the league.
In other words, he had one of the easiest defensive environments.
It was 9-0-3.
And he won the Hart.
He still had a great season.
He outperformed it.
But he had one of the easiest environments in the entire league.
I think you actually give him credit for that.
Because when you have a guy that makes all the saves, if you know that if I do my job in this system, this guy is making that save, it becomes so much easier not to cheat the system or to deviate from it.
So I know everyone's like, we want to hide traffic.
We can't have good goaltending.
But you're also trying to build the confidence of young athletes in front of it.
And having a good goaltender can make a massive difference in that.
So I see both sides of this.
Well, it's environment, right?
Like, it's environment.
And this isn't meant to be a criticism of Adam Foote, obviously, because he was a part of the defensive environment that they all excelled under when Rick Tockey was the head coach.
But I think a lot of us in the media have been around long enough and knew this group well enough that as soon as we, like, pre-season interview when Adam Foote started talking about some of the changes in the defensive zone and more emphasis on a read-based system, a little less simplistic system and more...
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