Ask Dubey: How to deal with the anxiety and pressure of being a goaltender

Welcome back to another edition of Ask Dubey!

There were a number of great questions this week, focusing on the mental side of the game, how I dealt with pressure and the mental side of goaltending, and advice that I would give to young goaltenders dealing with the same thing.

Let’s jump into a couple of questions.

Looking back at your career, what moment truly changed how you approached the mental side of goaltending?

That’s hard to answer. I wouldn’t say there was one point. There were definitley mental changes and shifts throughout my career. I had a mental shift, going from backing up to being the starting goalie in Edmonton, and then had my difficult year there. There are a couple of others that I could pinpoint, one being when I got traded from Edmonton, my game fell off a cliff.

When I got my one-year contract in Arizona, I kind of hit the........

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