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095 - Hockey Isn't NHL or Bust
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On this week's episode, we talk about the dangers of the NHL or bust mentality and a lot of the benefits hockey can bring even if you don't make high levels. There is a lot more to hockey than trying to get to the show.
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Condolences and Introduction
00:00:00
Speaker
Before this podcast begins, on behalf of myself, Nathan Park, the staff at True North Goaltending, and the DIY Goalie Podcast, we wanted to express our heartfelt condolences to the Southern Alberta Mustangs, the USPHL Alberta Division, and the families and billet families of Caden Fine, J.J. Wright, and Cameron Cresorso.
00:00:28
Speaker
These three young gentlemen were killed in a motor vehicle accident in state of the Alberta while making their way to a practice. These young men were not only hockey players, they were teammates, sons, Billet sons, brothers, Billet brothers, young men, and as well as representatives of their community.
00:00:56
Speaker
We Offer our condolences to everyone involved. And we wish everyone well wishes.
00:01:07
Speaker
And rest in peace to the three young men. Thank you.
00:01:19
Speaker
Welcome to the DIY Goalie Podcast, where hosts and goalie coaches Nathan Park and Connor Munday share their insights on how to become a better goalie.
00:01:31
Speaker
Goalies, how are we doing today? Welcome to another episode of the DIY Goalie podcast presented by True North Goaltending. And crazy enough today, it's Connor and Nathan together for a podcast episode. Seems like that doesn't happen too often these days, but... I will apologize in advance too.
00:01:55
Speaker
ah We had a tournament today for our oldest and a full day of hurting around you seven kids and siblings and stuff. I'm pretty drained so we'll see ah we'll see how many brain farts I have along the way.
Podcast Milestones and Recent Events
00:02:09
Speaker
But I'm glad that you all could join us for another episode this week and how are we doing today Connor?
00:02:18
Speaker
We are good. we yeah There's a lot of stuff to be to be catching up on here. I mean, I guess first off, we are on episode 95. So we are five episodes away from 100, which is pretty cool in my ah in my opinion. um Seven away from two years.
00:02:39
Speaker
yeah i guess so there you go and then um excuse me and then as well uh uh just you know a few things you know buzzing around you know went to the went to the shorzy classic uh a couple weeks ago that was fun i got to see no deloier and scribbins you know uh you know a couple of others goaltenders here so that was that was pretty cool um yeah no was it was it was a fun crowd there and you know just Back to the grind here. We are kind of getting close towards the end of ah of our of our seasons with with some of our some of our teams and some of our organizations. so i mean you know We still have like another month and month and a little bit to go here, but it all is starting to wind down.
Community Engagement and Content Sharing
00:03:24
Speaker
and then Eventually, it will be playoffs and it will be summertime. so it all it It all just comes up quick. and
00:03:30
Speaker
you know we'll ah we'll We'll deal with it as we see fit. Yeah, it's pretty crazy that it's already February, um which also means that one of these next couple episodes, we've got to break out a drill of the month. um Yeah, well, yeah, i'll make sure i I'll make sure that that gets out either next pod or maybe maybe when I'm editing, maybe I'll just throw it in there. I haven't decided yet. So when you guys are listening or watching watching this, you'll know what I've decided at that point. so Yeah, yeah.
00:04:00
Speaker
um No, that's all good. So what we're going to do, we're going to dive right into it today. What I wanted to to talk about and apologize if any of you listening are part of our email list. um We are gonna talk about what we just put out to our email list. So before we get into that, if you guys do wanna join our email list, we do send out a um article as well as a practice plan every month on that email list. um You can head to truenorthgoaltending.com, scroll all the way to the bottom, put your email in, and I'll add you to that list if you so
Beyond the NHL: Enjoying Hockey
00:04:35
Speaker
choose. But um normally I try and keep content
00:04:39
Speaker
on there kind of fresh and separate but this was a topic that when I kind of saw it I thought that this was something that maybe we should kind of really hammer home on all the channels that we could because I think this is something that we see lots of and is detrimental to a lot of kids out there playing hockey not just goalies um So basically, i wanted to go over the mentality of um that it's NHL or bust when we're playing hockey.
00:05:12
Speaker
And the reason that we're going over that was because on one of the goalie parent groups, um, i don't know, maybe week and a half, two weeks ago, I saw somebody post that they're, they were asking for advice basically on how they could convince their goalie to keep, uh, keep playing. Cause the goalie wasn't drafted in the CHL draft. Um,
00:05:36
Speaker
and was basically like well what's the point in pursuing this anymore i should just kind of start planning for you know what career i want to do and all this stuff so obviously he's a high level goalie if he's on the cusp of potentially getting drafted and now potentially doesn't even want to play anymore because of this and um i think that there are a lot of players but also a lot of like parents, a lot of coaches out there, unfortunately, that kind of have this mentality that it's all about playing pro, playing in the NHL. And if we don't get there, we fail. Right. And that's kind of, you know, sad that a lot of kids potentially miss out on a full career and experiencing the cool things that you can experience playing hockey just because of this sort of mentality.
00:06:31
Speaker
um There's a few reasons that I'm going to go over as to why you can still do a bunch of cool things with hockey, even if we don't make the and NHL.
Exploring Alternative Hockey Opportunities
00:06:42
Speaker
But I guess before we kind of dive into that, like, do you have any initial thoughts, Connor, or anything you kind of want to want to throw in there?
00:06:52
Speaker
Yeah, when I kind of read that, it kind of it kind of brought me back to when I was playing. And I'd kind of taken maybe a few steps further back, um you know, in talking about, you know, the WHL draft, the Bantam draft, at least the Western parts. um You know, it definitely, you know, for me was...
00:07:13
Speaker
for lack a better term, heartbreaking, you know, that I wasn't going to get a chance to play, you know, major junior hockey, not only just because I wasn't in the right stream for that um and just kind of how how to go about doing that. um But just kind of once I realized that that path had come and gone, you know, kind of realized again right then and there as well that, you know, the the dream of playing them or making it to the show was over. Um, but eventually, you know, as, as I continued on and continued in hockey and, you know, started to make connections in terms of coaching, you know, now there's this whole, this whole new avenue, um, in terms of, you know, what I'm getting out of in hockey and, and goaltending and, and, uh, and, and, and all that fun stuff there. So it's, it,
00:08:04
Speaker
There are definitely, there is definitely other avenues and other options that you can take and which we're going to dive into here. But yeah, know it just, when when I read that article that you had sent out, just, yeah, it brought me back to just kind of my my playing career. And again, going back more to the, to the WHL draft and just, and then that's kind of when you realize that it's over, but you know, the, the, the ability to stay in hockey was never dead. So.
00:08:34
Speaker
Yeah, and that's the heartbreaking part. Like when I read this post, it kind of really, you know, hit home a little bit because I can kind of relate to it. It wasn't that severe. um um I'll go into that a little bit more. But um it's mostly just like, you know, you have this 15-year-old kid that's, you know, obviously playing at some sort of high level like AAA or whatever the case is.
00:09:00
Speaker
And they're thinking about doing a complete 180. and dropping hockey altogether just because they didn't get drafted where they wanted to, right? And on one hand, I'll say getting drafted isn't the be all end all to begin with. You can still make it places without getting drafted. You can still make it to the show without going through the WHL or OHL or whatever as well. um So there's you know lots of things to unpack there, but
00:09:32
Speaker
The biggest thing that um I kind of wanted to touch on was just related to like the
Unexpected Hockey Journeys
00:09:39
Speaker
professionalization. i don't even know if that's a word, but I'm rolling with it um of, you know, young hockey. And a lot of these kids, they didn't kind of suffer from that because we're kind of fed this mentality of if I'm not playing the highest level possible, if I don't make this team, if I don't make this league, whatever the case is, I'm not good enough.
00:10:02
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right And the reality ah of it is is that it's such a small, small percentage that actually you know hit those levels and make it.
00:10:12
Speaker
um it's The majority of us aren't going to get a chance to experience that. So we kind have to be okay with that and recognize why we got into hockey in the first place. like The reason that we play hockey, it's fun. It's a sport. It's a way to stay active. It's a way to be competitive.
00:10:35
Speaker
um All of that stuff. Right. We've kind of gone over this before, but um that that should be the primary reason we're doing this, not to get to whatever level. Right. And there's various reasons that can come up that we don't get there, whether it is injuries, whether it is circumstance, um skill, whatever the case is. But at the end of the day,
00:11:01
Speaker
we can still do a lot through hockey, even if we don't make it to the NHL. And, you know, there's lots of people who have made great livings in pro leagues in Europe or kind of around North America. um You know, there's scholarships like for me personally, i didn't have to pay um a single dime for tuition at college because everything that I um or I guess all the cost of my tuition all came back to me in athletic scholarships just from playing hockey at my college.
00:11:35
Speaker
um So that's another another potential avenue, right? um And just the relationships too, which we'll kind of get in later into the episode here, but the relationships that you kind of make along the way and the experiences you get, those are kind of invaluable in themselves.
00:11:56
Speaker
Yeah. um Yeah. I, I, I look at it more from the coaching side of things, which again, we can get into a little bit later. um But, you know, definitely like with the playing side of things, like there are other options other than, you know, um you know, going, going to the and NHL, you know, I'm, I've always, I'm always a personal believer of, you know, any opportunity is a good opportunity. I know some scouts and maybe advisors, maybe hate me for that but ah um you know but just kind of being the outsider looking in like if you get an opportunity to you know go play semi-pro or pro in europe then why not jump at that if you get an opportunity to you know play in the fed or the the si then you know why not go and uh you know
00:12:46
Speaker
take take a run at that even though it may be a short-lived kind of run but it's still it's it's something that you know you can uh um you know get your foot into or you know can say that it's something that you know you got to do and uh um you know maybe that leads to something later on down the road or maybe that's you know you develop connections there that maybe you use five seven years from now right so um you know, you you know, like, again, like like I said, like, and like, like any opportunity is a good opportunity. You know, hockey can provide a lot of cool things, scholarships, you know, like Nathan was saying, or, you know, just, you know, the opportunity to, you know, advance from being a goalie to goalie coaching, you know. So just there, there, there are different avenues, but if your end goal, and it's, and and I suppose in a way, it's, it's a fair enough end goal, whether it's to make the nhl or even i guess we should include as well the pwhl right um you know if if that's the the be all end all and if you realize that that window of opportunity has passed or the ability for that has passed and you just want to quit right then and there then why did you even get into the sport to begin with
00:14:03
Speaker
Right? that's that's That's the biggest thing right there. like You know, like Nathan was saying already, hockey is meant to be... Hockey is a game. Hockey is meant to be fun. Yes, there are some of those that, you know, maybe take this game and take our positions little in particular maybe a little too seriously.
00:14:20
Speaker
But, again, in the same breath is that hockey and goaltending is meant to be fun. It's meant to be enjoyed.
00:14:31
Speaker
And if you... take it too seriously you do end up burning yourself out you do end up you know having a resentment for the game you know like jamie phillips was uh telling us about um you know and and and eventually you know you you kill it a lot faster and you know when you do end up, you know, if you do decide to walk away from the game early and you, you end up in your, your thirties or forties, whatever, you know, you realize that, that, that you miss it. Well, then it's a, it's, it's a longer road to kind of get back into semi-decent shape if you want to go and play beer league or whatever. Right.
00:15:09
Speaker
So, ah highly encourage, you know, for everybody to, you know, to try and stay in hockey and to try and stay in whatever sport it is at the rent and for as long as they can, you know, get out of it for or get as much out of it as you can before you decide to officially you know walk away for good.
00:15:26
Speaker
um I had one other thing. I can't remember what it was, but I think I've kind of nailed all the points that i wanted to wanted to nail there. Yeah. So as a personal example, um I had kind of told myself when I was playing junior that if I didn't get like an NCAA Division One scholarship that I was just kind of done.
00:15:52
Speaker
And I got a couple offers for Div 3 and ACHA Div 1. But um the honest truth about it, I guess, is that I really didn't want to spend twenty two thousand US dollars a year to go play hockey in the States. so um What I ended up doing was I kind of planned on hanging up the skates and about a year or two or sorry, a month or two into my summer after I was done my 20 year old year for junior.
00:16:26
Speaker
I kind of got the bug again. And so I had already enrolled in my college. So I called the coach and I said, Hey, I'm already enrolled. um I kind of want to play again next year. Do you guys have any spots? And so they're still looking for their third goalie spot.
00:16:42
Speaker
And so he said, yeah, come on board. I ended i ended up doing two pretty cool things um throughout my career there. So we went down to Arizona for an exhibition game against ASU, which was pretty cool. But then I also got the chance to play in that Oilers rookie game um where, you know, I got to play against Stu Skinner, Kyler Yamamoto, um Caleb Jones, Ethan Bear.
00:17:11
Speaker
um I wouldn't have gotten that opportunity if I didn't decide to go play and play for my college team. Right. And um I also I think because of that, there is kind of a natural transition to me getting asked to e-bug for the Oilers for you know two seasons where I got to do 12 games for that. And so, you know, you just never know what kind of comes.
00:17:39
Speaker
um from hockey or taking the chance on doing something like that. You never know what experiences you might get or what relationships you might make and and that sort of stuff. So that's just kind of like a personal experience of mine that you just never really know what can come of it.
00:18:00
Speaker
Mine's a little more long winded, guess. I'll try to keep it as short as I can. um and So yeah so way am my in my grade 11 year, you know, it's kind of when I realized that, you know, like after this year, you know, playing, I'm i'm done for good. And so that's when I made the switch in transitioning over to coaching.
00:18:19
Speaker
So made the switch, my grade 12 year transition over to coaching, you know got to go around few few places to be a goalie coach for a few spring hockey teams and minor hockey organizations and such until the, think it was the summer of 2018, 2019, I think it was 2019, where one of my beer league teammates had called me and said, my my cut or my my nephew is looking for for a goalie coach. Would you be interested?
00:18:46
Speaker
And by that time, I wasn't really doing very much in terms of the coaching side of things. And i was like, yeah, sure jump at it. So then that's when you know I ended up in the Greater Metro Hockey League, Western Division, one of the outlaw junior league, junior A leagues here that is no longer around. um But and then that trends that transition into spending about four years in that league and getting to do quite a few things. i was named part of the the all-star coaching staff and I got to do the, the, you know, the play by play and the, the, I, some reason they got me to sing the national anthem at that game. So I don't know why, but they did.
00:19:29
Speaker
ah Not my greatest performance. clip that That should be our new intro. Yeah.
00:19:38
Speaker
ah You can find me on Spotify. um And, you know out of you know, out of all that, you know, made a lot of good relationships and, you know, kind of went from there. And so all of that, where I'm going with this is where I was on another podcast. This was maybe...
00:19:56
Speaker
four-ish year-ish, no, probably over four years ago, four, five, six, seven years ago, um where the podcaster had asked me, you know, what's, you know, you know are are you happy with your career?
00:20:12
Speaker
And I had said to him, it's like if – because I think we were in the tail end of our playoffs. If playoffs were to end today if we ended up not being brought back as the coaching staff and I never got a job again coaching in hockey, I would be okay with that because coaching in this quote-unquote junior A league, if that's the highest level of hockey that I'll ever get to coach – um' and if my career were to end right there, I would have been satisfied. I would have been okay with that.
00:20:45
Speaker
Thankfully, it didn't. You know, I got to coach a year in junior eight, and now I'm coaching coaching or I'm probably going finishing up my year here soon, if if in another month with AA. So then I can say, hey, I got to coach double-a hockey which double-a hockey compared to this outlaw junior a league there's a significant difference there but the point being is that you know if again i can say it here again if my career were to end today if i were to have some sort of goalie coaching career ending injury or if nathan had just decided to fire me and then like blacklist me from ever being hired again as a coach in hockey i
00:21:21
Speaker
I think I think I think I'd be OK with that, you know, because I got to do some cool things and I got to be in hockey and be at levels in hockey that I wouldn't have gotten the chance to be at if I was still playing.
00:21:37
Speaker
if that makes sense. So it's, it you know, it's all, ah you know, it's all about, you know, knowing where to go or looking where you want to be, you know, five years from now are, and, and just kind of the connections that, that, that you got as well, both as a player and, and, or as a coach.
00:21:55
Speaker
Right. So it's, it's, it's just a matter of what, what do you, what do you want to do with hockey aside from, you know, the obvious. Yeah. Yeah, we stick around after this for an HR meeting to discuss your future future.
00:22:18
Speaker
We like to joke about that.
Networking Through Hockey
00:22:20
Speaker
um So, yeah, like that's a big one to build off of is the relationships in hockey. Like what I'm noticing now that I'm kind of starting to dabble a little bit on the advising side of things, um the actual power of the network that you have, especially in the hockey world, um it makes a huge difference. Like it doesn't take long to connect the dots between you and pretty much anyone in the hockey world if you're fairly involved with it.
00:22:53
Speaker
um You know, everybody kind of knows somebody who knows somebody type deal. And it's it's that's another kind of benefit, even if you don't end up playing at high levels or anything like that. You develop these relationships with people that could end up helping with hockey later in life or they could just end up helping with football.
00:23:14
Speaker
career or just making you know friends, right? Like just, you know, maybe your best friend was on your hockey team or something like that, right? Like there's a lot of the relationship side of things too that comes with hockey. um It's usually a pretty tight knit community. There's a lot of people that are a lot of good people trying to do good things.
00:23:33
Speaker
um You know, it helps with job offers and stuff to like when people have worked closely with you, they know your character and a lot of employers to they look for like team sports um when it comes to resumes and stuff like that, just because of the characteristics that a lot of athletes kind of tend to bring.
00:23:53
Speaker
um It's something that employers like to look at, too, so that there's a lot of other benefits aside from just the sport aspect of it as well. But I think the relationships is one to really think of and and can really kind of help you later on in life, whether it is on the ice or away from the rink entirely. um i mean, just the opportunity from, um you know, the guests that we've had on on the podcast so far, like,
00:24:21
Speaker
you know, talking to these people and then who they know, and then you get to talk to those people. And, you know, now you have people that you bounce ideas off of, like never in my life, but I've thought that I could just text David Hutchinson from goal magazine, just randomly, if I wanted to, to ask a question or, or anything like that. And now, you know, we have that ability. Like I text him every now and then about stuff and, uh,
00:24:48
Speaker
And, you know, it's kind of cool and something that never thought we'd be able to do. So um make sure that along the way you guys, you know, make these relationships kind of be good people, um you know, and just make friends along the way. And you never know when it'll help kind of down the road.
00:25:14
Speaker
And even for those, you know, who go to academies or schools that have a like a hockey development program, you know, I like i like to flaunt this every once in a while, but, you know, the. Getting the chance to, you know, here in Edmonton, Edmonton to go to Vimer Ridge Academy and getting to work with some, you know, cool people on the goaltending side of things, you know, got to work with former Oilers goalie coach Dustin Schwartz and, you know, current Oil Kings goalie coach Curtis Mooka, who I still talk to every once in a blue moon, you know, and then, like you know, like Nathan was saying as well, you know, from, you know, the podcast side of things, you know, like we got to have Marlon Boissoneau.
00:25:55
Speaker
you know from the PWHL on the pod. you know and you know I'm talking right now with a few other potential guests that we may have lined up. I just got to find the time and you know to draw out questions and and you know to do that stuff. But you know the the connections and the relationships are there.
00:26:11
Speaker
um Obviously, Nathan, I have a little bit more credibility, you know, to, you know, to be able to to do that. But but no one's here to say that, you know, just because you don't have that credibility right now doesn't mean that you won't that that you won't be able to at all. It just it just, you know, takes that time, you know, because word of mouth, you know, word of mouth and everything spreads around like wildfire.
00:26:36
Speaker
right So you want to you you want to make sure that you know that if if somebody is going to be talking about you, hopefully it'll be in a good light. Nathan likes to do that to me sometimes, but no, mostly not. But I digress.
00:26:50
Speaker
I shame you in public and praise you in private. I'll text him, you're doing good, but never never on the pod. And that's at two in the morning where just like I open up my phone, you know close the closing notification, and I never see it again.
00:27:07
Speaker
Yeah, sounds about right. Yeah, no, but even now, like the opportunities that we've been able to do just from True North Goaltending to like, I'm hoping I can hit up the GGR, the Global Goaltending Retreat in in June this year and, you know, go see a lot of these people that have done a lot for goaltending. So um that was kind of the biggest like message, I guess that I wanted to get across from today is just that, you know, there's a lot of other things that you can accomplish and a lot of cool things you can experience along the way with hockey, aside from having to make the
Appreciating the Hockey Journey
00:27:48
Speaker
NHL. Right. um
00:27:50
Speaker
Even like I'll talk to people and I'll mention that, you know, I played Junior A in a little bit of college and, you know, there's a lot of people that are like, oh, you're pretty good then. Right. Even though it's only Junior A, but there's, you know, like I can see Connor smiling. He's judging me right now. But.
00:28:11
Speaker
It's true, right? Like, I mean, I think a lot of us don't appreciate what we can do um along the way when we're kind of in the day to day. Right. Like I didn't really appreciate nearly as much as I should have the things that I got to do in my career. And looking back on it, it's it is cool, the things that I did. But I also wish that, you know, I kind of taken them in a little bit more as they went. So Don't get lost in the day to day of trying to constantly get better and get to the next level. Yes, we always want to be doing that. But at the same time, enjoy the ride.
00:28:49
Speaker
Have some fun with it. It's a game still. You know, there's lots of cool things to experience, like getting better over the years and kind of the levels that you guys can make. Right. So just appreciate it.
00:29:04
Speaker
Don't. get upset if you don't get drafted, if you don't make whatever team, whatever level, you know, there's still another season to be played wherever you end up. And I'm hoping that this kind of helps to change the mindset a little bit when it comes to having to make the show or the highest level or or whatever. um But yeah, I don't know. I think there's a lot more to it than than just the NHL.
00:29:32
Speaker
Yeah, and I wanted to throw this out there as well. you know just Again, like I was saying, and normally every opportunity is is a good ah is a good opportunity. you know Just understand that you know there are many different ways to either you know make the NHL, if at all, or even just to end up in you know a pro, semi-pro-ish standing. um you know mean you know, with with the rise of outlaw leagues and, you know, all that, like there that is an option as well, um you know, and then minor hockey systems and, know, going overseas, going out of country, you know, what whatever that may be, whatever that may look like.
00:30:18
Speaker
So I guess really just what we're boiling down to at the end of the day is just when when you – get to a certain point in your hockey career.
00:30:31
Speaker
And if you want to stay in hockey and the goal is no longer to make the NHL, well, then what is the goal? What do you want to get out of it at the end of the day?
Education and Long-term Benefits
00:30:41
Speaker
Really, I would say is that probably getting an opportunity to go to school and to play hockey at the at the collegiate or university level probably weighs a little bit more than actually making the NHL.
00:30:56
Speaker
you know Because a lot of ah lot of what happens you know to these pro players when they're done after 10, 11-ish years, some for some, you know they they don't really have anything to fall back on afterwards. And that's how some of them end up in the insurance game, no offense, walking, or end up you know as car salesmen, or you know some of them end up in construction or whatever. And not that there's anything wrong with any of those, but But education always will outweigh getting a chance to play pro as cool as it may be. But a lot of those guys who do end up making pro at 17, 18 years old.
00:31:40
Speaker
Again, that their career could take a different trajectory very, very quickly. you know In terms of injuries or getting outbid for spots, and then now they're and and now they're scrambling or panicking to find the next opportunity or or to get to the next position.
00:31:58
Speaker
So i I would say is that you know for a lot of goalies that the goal should be to, number one, stay in hockey as long as you can. All roads lead to beer league at the end of the And number two, um you know, if you get if if if your goal should be is getting the opportunity to go to school and and and and and play hockey versus, you know, making the show.
00:32:23
Speaker
But if the goal is still to make the show, open up your Xbox or PlayStation, launch nl NHL, NHL 26, be a pro mode and you're good to go. it's Great advice. Yeah.
00:32:38
Speaker
No, i think i think so yeah I think there's lots of places you can get to. um And even if you make a semi-pro league that's not paying you very much, you can still say you got paid to play hockey, which is a thing most people can't say. so um But yeah, i don't really have much else to add if you want to take us home, if you got nothing else.
00:33:04
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Yeah, i got I got nothing else either. It's ah you know nice to be back and not having to try and ramble on for 30 minutes. So, you know, unfortunately, one of our shorter episodes today is we both have commitments outside of the pod ah this week. But hopefully we are back at it together for a more longer version next time. Hopefully with some guests. We got to get some guests lined up here. don't know.
00:33:26
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It has, it it has been a little bit. I do have, uh, I do have some conversations outgoing right now. It's just a matter of trying to get those approved and find time and everything else. So, but, uh, otherwise, yeah, this has been another episode of the DIY goalie podcast presented by true North goaltending. Make sure you guys follow us on our social media platforms, all at true North goaltending except on Instagram because we'd like to be different. Um,
00:33:51
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go check us out. True North school attending.com. We do have our camp bookings live right now. Some spots are filling up fast over others. We are offering three different types of camps this year, which is very exciting. I'm going to kind of run through those quickly. We do have um a UL. What is it? U11 U9 U11 beginner camp happening the weekend of August 8th and 9th here in the Edmonton area. So if you are a newer-ish goalie, maybe you're putting on the pads for the first time, or maybe you're graduating from U9 to U11 and want to play goaltending and want to be a goalie more full-time, that would be the camp for you guys. Also, would highly recommend as well joining ah joining us on our main camp happening the week of August 10th to 14th.
00:34:40
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um And then we also are offering... booked almost Over 50% already. Almost 50%. Almost 50%. All right. Yeah. you know and Spots are. It's one quick this year. Yeah.
00:34:54
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we're we're We're just a couple of popular guys, I guess. um On top of as well, which is really interesting, we're offering True North Goaltending's first ever Ringette Goalie Camp, which is the weekend of August 21 to the 23rd with our three specialized Ringette coaches. I'm sure that Nathan and or myself might make an appearance out there at some point, but, uh, um, yeah, so that, so, so that's pretty cool. So we are, we are diving a lot more into the ringette side of things. So make sure you guys go, uh, go check that out, uh, go check that out there.
00:35:29
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Um, and yeah, so all of our camps are open and available for booking. Again, some spots are filling up faster than others. So make sure you guys jump on that now before all of our spots are filled up. Um,
00:35:44
Speaker
Yeah, but otherwise, if you do happen to find yourself in the Edmonton area and you are not able to attend one of our camps, but you do happen to find yourself in the Edmonton area, you can go to our website, TrueNorthGoaltending.com, and you can book a facility session with either myself, Nathan, or many of our wonderful staff members that we do have.
00:36:01
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um or we got We got a lot of good feedback at the at the phil facility session, so come so come check us out there. If you are listening on your favorite podcasting platforms, whether that is Apple, iHeart or Spotify, make sure you hit the the share button if you are a returning listener. And if you are a new listener, welcome. And make sure you hit that follow and that share button. The more goalies that we're able to bring it together, the better. And then on top of as well, if you are watching over on the YouTube side of things, if you're a new viewer again, hi, welcome.
00:36:31
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um Hit the subscribe button, hit the like button, hit the share button. Even if you are a returning viewer, it just helps the algorithm. And, you know, more the more goalies that we're able to bring together, the better. And, you know, just the more content that we're able to to get out and such. I am working very slowly working on a vlog that I recorded a very long time ago um at at one of our one of our weekend sessions. ah So hopingly to hoping to get that done here at some point.
00:37:01
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i Just trying to find the time to do that. But we i will make sure that that is posted on our True North Goal Tending channel. So make sure you guys check that out. Otherwise, on behalf of Nathan Park and myself, this has been the True Notes Be Done. Nope, that's the wrong one. This has been the DIY Goalie Podcast presented by True Notes Goaltending. It has clearly been a while since I've done this.
00:37:20
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Make some saves goalies. We'll see you guys next time. Take care.