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Goalies can't be concerned about offense
Successful goalies focus on opponents' goals, not how many their team is scoring at the other end.
Updated: January 20, 2004, 8:56 PM ET
By
Darren Pang | Special to ESPN.com
Don't worry about things you can't control. It's a phrase every goalie has heard from every sports psychologist he's met.
It seems simple enough. A goaltender can't get caught up thinking about anything on the ice other than what he can do and that is to stop the puck.
This is an era of 2-1 games. There is very little margin for error for the teams that struggle to generate offense, so perfect defense is the only way to win. That also means perfect goaltending.
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