Whitney
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He's an unbelievable goalie, and he can help your team win games, so you just hope he can get back to that.
That year in Boston, he was 46-1 with a 9.38 and a 1.89.
So that was just incredible.
And just remember how happy.
Remember they'd have those big hug celebrations.
So it goes to show you how much you have to have clarity in your head to be good in this league.
You can't just go out there and play off a skill.
You have to have the clarity in your head off the ice to be good on the ice.
yeah if you're if i've heard this mentioned in golf a lot if if you got stuff going going on away from like in that case the course or the rink like how the hell guys who can play good hockey while maybe their personal lives are a mess that is fucking that's alien mode i've heard yeah obviously we know some some stories behind the scenes where you're like oh how is he playing well you're a sick puppy if you're doing what you're doing yeah sociopath stuff
wait you're telling me that maybe those guys just get to the ring they're like oh finally i'm away from that madness but um that's that's why like i was so bad with my phone when i played and i remember texting our group chat apologizing for not being the best of friend a friend could be the last 16 years but way better now yeah i knew what it had for me to take to play in the nhl to be an everyday guy i had to just be focused on the game and to have the outside noise i couldn't have it
Kids are only young for so long, right?
Like you're a different stage now because you get to enjoy all that stuff.
But when you're playing, you miss everything basically, right?
And I was one of those.
I wasn't helping out a ton at home.
Like Kristen was doing the majority of it.
Like if it was game day, I wasn't doing anything.
So it's kind of one of those things for me.
It was just I need to focus on the game when I'm at the rink and I need to focus at home when I'm at home.
um living in the moment stuff biz yeah no that's it that who did did you just learn that yourself or did you kind of have to like talk to the older guys when you were taking that next step no i remember witnessing it like you'd go over to guys how like donor derrick morris adrian a coin ken clee like all these older guys and you just saw how they interacted with their families when they were there they weren't on their phones they weren't