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InGoal Magazine’s Dave Hutchison explains how young goalies and skaters can build confidence, handle mistakes, and stop letting the scoreboard define performance.
Key Takeaways
- In this episode of The Ride to The Rink, Lee Elias and InGoal Magazine co-founder Dave Hutchison discuss how young hockey goalies can separate their actual performance from the final scoreboard results.
- Dave Hutchison explains why hockey culture often focuses too heavily on finding mistakes and how positive, specific feedback builds much stronger confidence in young athletes.
- Skaters and teammates learn actionable ways to better support their goalies during games, including avoiding unhelpful comments about shots the goalie should have stopped.
- Young players are encouraged to find two or three specific things they did well after every game rather than judging their entire effort solely on goals against.
- Rotating young goalies helps create stronger coaching connections and team empathy, improving the overall development experience for everyone on the ice.
🥅 Goalies, skaters, and teammates—how do you handle it when the puck goes in?
Do you blame yourself?
Blame someone else?
Stare at the scoreboard?
Or can you step back and look at how you actually played?
In this episode of The Ride to The Rink, Lee Elias is joined by Dave “Hutch” Hutchison, co-founder of InGoal Magazine, to talk directly to young goalies and skaters about confidence, mistakes, teamwork, and learning to evaluate your performance beyond the final score.
Hutch explains why hockey has created a culture of constantly searching for mistakes—and why young athletes may develop faster when parents, coaches, and teammates also learn to catch them doing something right.
🎧 In this episode:
🥅 Why goalies can’t judge every game by goals against
🧠 How to separate your performance from the result
👏 Why specific positive feedback can change a player’s confidence
🤝 How skaters can better support their goalies during games
🚫 Why telling a goalie what they “should have had” rarely helps
🏒 How players can show better awareness during practice
🎯 Why shooting on an unprepared goalie doesn’t help anyone improve
🔄 How rotating young goalies can create more coaching and team connection
📊 Why statistics and scoreboards don’t tell the entire story
💪 How to find two or three things you did well after every game
One of Hutch’s most important messages is simple:
You can play a great game and still give up goals.
And you can win while knowing you did not play your best.
The scoreboard matters—but it should not become the only way you judge yourself.
Learn from the result.
Then look deeper.
What did you do well?
What are you improving?
Where did you support your teammates?
What can you build on next time?
That mindset can make you a better goalie, a better skater, and a better teammate.
📖 Want a written version you can reference anytime? Check out our companion blog: Your Scoreboard Is Not Your Report Card: A Better Mindset for Young Goalies
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Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Dave Hutchison and what is his background in hockey?
Dave Hutchison is the co-founder of InGoal Magazine and a leading voice in youth hockey goalie development, joining host Lee Elias on this episode to discuss goalie mindset.
How can youth hockey goalies separate performance from results?
Goalies can separate performance from results by evaluating how well they played and executing their fundamentals rather than blindly letting the final score or goals-against dictate their self-worth.
How can teammates and parents better support a youth goalie?
Teammates and parents can support goalies by catching them doing things right, offering specific positive reinforcement, and avoiding critical comments about shots they 'should have had'.