The Ride to The Rink - How to Compete AND Support: Ian Shane on Why Great Goaltenders Think About Others First

Hello hockey goalies and skaters around the world. Welcome back to another edition of
the ride to the rink It's Lee Mike and Christy and we brought on one of the best
college goalies in the country today And if that's not good enough he plays pro
today, you're gonna want to listen to this person And whether you're a goalie or
not kids if you're in the car right now with your parents go, I'm not a goalie I
don't need to listen to this. Yes, you do always a very important position So we're
bringing in here Ian Shane one of our really greatest goal -tending guests ever and
we're gonna talk today about how We all know you're talented if you're listening to
this you love the game But what does it mean to be a great teammate? How much
talent does it take to be a great teammate or lack of talent and why is that
important? And there's nobody better than Ian to talk about this because as a
goaltender kids, you know Sometimes you're in the net. Sometimes you're not in the
net. There's games where you're not playing. So Ian, let me throw this to you.
Let's just talk about A, the power of being a great teammate. And then through the
eyes of a goaltender, how that applies to the whole team, the other goaltender, so
forth and so on. Yeah, I think that as I mentioned to you guys earlier on before,
everything becomes so much easier when your purpose is external and it's how can I
make the person next to me or cost room for me that much better at something or
how can I make their day that much better and it's so hard I think in this sport
and in this day and age with social media and it's it's hard at a young age to
get out of your own head and sort of thinking about where you're at and I think
that it stresses people out a lot it stresses kids out college age students and
whatnot to think about where I am right now and what I'm doing the expectations I
have for myself so it's It's just honestly a little trick to get out of your own
head and maybe get yourself out of a funk, is to think about how can I make
someone else's day better? How can I, who in here might not be having a great day?
How can I go about the locker room with some positivity? And you won't even really
notice right off the bat that you're not thinking about what's stressing you out.
You're not thinking about maybe what's coming up in school or the games you have
this weekend that are big games, you're thinking more about, I want to make sure
that my teammates are okay. And we've talked about before as well, that it's really
hard to think and play hockey at the same time. Things happen so fast. So if you
can sort of get out of that, you know, thinking mindset of trying to overthink the
whole game and complicating things for yourself, then it just all becomes easier. And
your game becomes better, it comes more naturally, and also helps develop these
relationships with your teammates. teammates. Great advice. What if you're not the
only goalie on the team? What kind of relationship should you develop with other
goalies? Yeah, I think a goal -tenning relationship is always competitive. I mean,
unfortunately, only one goalie gets to play at a time, so you're always competing,
but having that mature mindset about yourself where it's, you know, we're competing,
but I can also learn things from him. We're more than allow to talk about what's
going on in games. We can give each other advice. And, you know, if we both play
better than the team plays better, our team gets more recognition and we get more
recognition. So once again, just going back to the tie raises all ships, so to
speak. You want the best for your teammates. You want the best for your goalie
partner 'cause in the end it's gonna be the best situation for you.
- You know, I wanna ask this to you. It's great advice, but no one kids kids you
kids you can be mean to each other and I sometimes I think sometimes You know, I
say a lot not every thought in your head has to come out all the time, right? So
when you have a teammate, you know, maybe it's the kid listening right now Maybe
there's this more negative dialogue in the head of like well that kid sucks Or this
kid this kid sucks, right? Maybe it's I suck. I mean, there's a lot of a lot of
negative rhetoric out there. Do you have any tips for a kid in that position to
maybe flip it around? Like I said, we can tell that kid to be a great teammate,
but maybe what are some of the thoughts of, well, that kid's horrible, that we can
flip that into something different?
Yeah, I would say, first off, try and figure out where that thought is coming from.
Is it someone you're competing against? Is it someone who's maybe even getting more
ice time than you. And if so, how can you sort of flip that, that scenario or
that situation, that narrative into, you know, what I want to, this kid's playing
more than me or this kid has been having a lot more success than me. So I want
to maybe emulate a few of the things he's doing, but I don't, you shouldn't just
copy him, maybe ask like, Hey, how do you do this? How do you approach that? And
people love being asked questions about themselves about their processes. that's not
even just the hockey thing, that's just humans in general, people love to talk about
themselves. So if you can get them sharing some of their knowledge with you, it
helps you out and also starts building a little bit of a relationship there and
something that you can kind of build upon. - Hey Ian, just for the guys and the
girls, you're driving to the rink right now and you're a 12 year old goalie, 13
year old goalie. Can you just talk about how exciting would be for them to be able
to go up to another goal in the organization that whether they're playing, you know,
18 you or 16 you and an older peer and kind of befriend them and pick their brain
and use them within the organization to get better as a goal tender and, you know,
with your own team? I, yeah, I think that's absolutely huge. If you have access to
somebody who's willing to share information with you, it might be a little bit older
and experienced. And that's something that I learned in college and high school
hockey that, you know, you're your upperclassmen, they want what's best for the team,
they want what's best for you. And they're gonna help you out. Like everybody loves
to be asked stuff about their process and what they're doing. So don't, don't be
afraid to start those conversations. It's, it's okay to go up to somebody and ask
like, Hey, I saw you were doing this before the game is even as little as I saw
you taped your stick a certain way, why do you do that? At least it starts a
little bit of a dialogue and a relationship and then you can build off of that and
get into more nuanced questions and it's going to help honestly both of you because
that person is now going to also think about their process a little bit more and
maybe they think of, oh, yeah, actually why do I do that and yeah, it'll help both
sides out. I love it Ian and I'll say to the kids out there, we talked about this
on the big episode having a growth mindset over a fixed mindset. It is a major way
to stand out on your team. Go look that up. And we said this on the big episode
too. You should listen to the full episode with Ian this week. If you're interested
in what he's talking about because he started in a non -traditional hockey market in
California and then he started as the third gold tenor on Cornell and he became the
starter for four years. Now he's making his way into professional hockey. If that's
something, if that's a dream of yours, it's a great episode to listen into, but
Ian, great stuff today for the kids. Thanks for coming on. - Yeah, thank you guys
so much for having me. This was awesome. - All right, for Mike, Christie, and Ian,
kids, remember wherever you're at on your hockey journey, know we believe in you,
all right? You should too. We'll see you on the next ride to the ring, everybody.
Have fun and skate on.