1 00:00:00,720 --> 00:00:03,640 Speaker 1: It's time to meet the Kruken with Mike Minton goa 2 00:00:03,720 --> 00:00:06,320 Speaker 1: Tocord back and there for another NHL season joining us. 3 00:00:06,320 --> 00:00:07,920 Speaker 1: Thank you very much for a few moments for you 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:10,000 Speaker 1: to see you once again, my friend. First off, I'll 5 00:00:10,000 --> 00:00:12,959 Speaker 1: start as a goalie entering your third full season here. 6 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:17,040 Speaker 1: How does your focus shift from five years ago to 7 00:00:17,160 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: now since you're in the NHL now full time? 8 00:00:20,480 --> 00:00:25,240 Speaker 2: Well, trucifully, it changes. Every year. You re reassess and 9 00:00:25,920 --> 00:00:28,800 Speaker 2: kind of decide where you're at, where the game's at, 10 00:00:29,200 --> 00:00:31,200 Speaker 2: what you need to do to best help the team, 11 00:00:31,280 --> 00:00:34,720 Speaker 2: and go into each season with that new set of 12 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:38,560 Speaker 2: goals and structure that you want to implement to best 13 00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 2: help the team win games. At the end of the day, 14 00:00:40,479 --> 00:00:42,800 Speaker 2: we're all individuals here trying to help the team win 15 00:00:42,880 --> 00:00:45,120 Speaker 2: and come together as a group. So it changes from 16 00:00:45,159 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 2: your to ear. 17 00:00:45,600 --> 00:00:48,200 Speaker 1: So putting this into context, this is a pretty normal question. 18 00:00:48,240 --> 00:00:50,400 Speaker 1: When you're asked us to say age twenty or when 19 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 1: someone enters adulthood and you're now twenty nine, when's the 20 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:55,800 Speaker 1: last time someone asked you what do you want to 21 00:00:55,840 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 1: be in five to ten years from now? And how 22 00:00:58,440 --> 00:01:00,000 Speaker 1: much have you thought about that? Maybe? 23 00:01:00,560 --> 00:01:05,640 Speaker 2: Well, I feel old all of a sudden, I apologize, Yeah, yeah, 24 00:01:05,760 --> 00:01:08,200 Speaker 2: I haven't. I haven't put a lot of thought. I 25 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:09,960 Speaker 2: try not to look too too far ahead like that 26 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,639 Speaker 2: because for me, I'm a very process and structure oriented person. 27 00:01:14,160 --> 00:01:16,560 Speaker 2: So it's like, okay, you know, especially if you're looking 28 00:01:16,560 --> 00:01:19,000 Speaker 2: at hockey season, it's like, I'm looking at the next 29 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:20,680 Speaker 2: game and what I need to do to prepare for 30 00:01:20,720 --> 00:01:22,520 Speaker 2: the next game to be at my best and help 31 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:25,880 Speaker 2: the team win. And I think it's much easier to 32 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:30,119 Speaker 2: move forward that way and to keep getting one percent 33 00:01:30,160 --> 00:01:33,200 Speaker 2: better and just keep progressing that way as opposed to 34 00:01:33,240 --> 00:01:34,720 Speaker 2: being like, well, in five years, I want to be 35 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:37,880 Speaker 2: this now. It's also, I think beneficial sometimes to look 36 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,800 Speaker 2: at it in a backwards perspective and say, Okay, in 37 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:43,640 Speaker 2: five years, I want to be here, and Okay, what 38 00:01:43,680 --> 00:01:47,080 Speaker 2: do I need to do on day one of you know, 39 00:01:47,319 --> 00:01:50,520 Speaker 2: fifteen hundred plus days to get to where I want 40 00:01:50,520 --> 00:01:53,120 Speaker 2: to be in year five? So that's not also, you know, 41 00:01:53,360 --> 00:01:54,640 Speaker 2: a bad way to go boy, right? As well? 42 00:01:54,720 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: Training takes up a lot of your time during the summer. 43 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:58,520 Speaker 1: What else were you able to enjoy when you were 44 00:01:58,520 --> 00:01:59,360 Speaker 1: back home in Boston? 45 00:02:00,240 --> 00:02:02,320 Speaker 2: Really, I just sit on the couch and uh, watch 46 00:02:02,360 --> 00:02:07,200 Speaker 2: it not kidding. I love yeah, yeah, I love doing 47 00:02:07,240 --> 00:02:10,320 Speaker 2: stuff for me Like I put my work in, I 48 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 2: get what I need to in from a training standpoint, 49 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:15,160 Speaker 2: but we get a couple of months a year where 50 00:02:15,200 --> 00:02:17,400 Speaker 2: we were on our own schedule. And I love to travel. 51 00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:18,760 Speaker 2: I love to see the world. I love to do 52 00:02:18,800 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 2: fun things. So you know, I love going to Europe. 53 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:23,480 Speaker 2: This summer I went to Europe a couple of times, 54 00:02:23,760 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 2: fortunate enough to obviously play for a team USA and 55 00:02:25,600 --> 00:02:29,119 Speaker 2: World Championships, which was also a bit of a European 56 00:02:29,160 --> 00:02:31,280 Speaker 2: excursion as well. And then and then traveled around a 57 00:02:31,320 --> 00:02:34,000 Speaker 2: little bit after over to Italy and Switzerland, spent time 58 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 2: with my Swiss family. And then I love going to 59 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 2: the lake. I love I love wakesurfing, going to the beach, 60 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:44,200 Speaker 2: hanging out with friends and family. You know, I went 61 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:46,560 Speaker 2: my brother. We went to New York City and watched 62 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:50,880 Speaker 2: our favorite soccer team, Manchester United play in the preseason 63 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:53,600 Speaker 2: summer tour from the Premier League. So that was really cool. Yeah, 64 00:02:53,720 --> 00:02:57,720 Speaker 2: just lots of fun stuff. And then that way, I'm 65 00:02:57,880 --> 00:03:00,680 Speaker 2: I'm reset and recharged once once the sea rolls around. 66 00:03:00,720 --> 00:03:02,640 Speaker 1: Congratulations, by the way, on the gold medal. 67 00:03:02,760 --> 00:03:06,880 Speaker 2: Thank you to media. Yeah, it was hard to put 68 00:03:06,919 --> 00:03:09,760 Speaker 2: into words. I mean, just the whole experience, going from 69 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:13,640 Speaker 2: playing or sorry, just getting invited to play for TMOSA. 70 00:03:14,480 --> 00:03:17,519 Speaker 2: I've never had that honor before, and putting on the 71 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,400 Speaker 2: jersey for the first time, the red, white, and blue 72 00:03:19,560 --> 00:03:24,119 Speaker 2: was hard. Hard to describe that feeling and just meant 73 00:03:24,120 --> 00:03:25,840 Speaker 2: the world to me and my family and to get 74 00:03:25,840 --> 00:03:28,839 Speaker 2: that opportunity, I couldn't have been more grateful. And now 75 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:32,520 Speaker 2: you look at you know, actually playing and playing the 76 00:03:32,560 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 2: games and then winning the tournament was a dream come true. 77 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:37,920 Speaker 2: And I'm going to have that gold medal for the 78 00:03:37,960 --> 00:03:40,520 Speaker 2: rest of my life. So pretty incredible experience. 79 00:03:40,600 --> 00:03:42,480 Speaker 1: The third jersey is looking pretty good, but to you, 80 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:43,680 Speaker 1: how good is it? 81 00:03:43,680 --> 00:03:46,560 Speaker 2: It's sick. Yeah. I'm a huge fan for more than 82 00:03:46,600 --> 00:03:49,520 Speaker 2: one reason, and the biggest reason being it's it's nasty, 83 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:52,080 Speaker 2: like it looks unreal. Second reason being as a goalie. 84 00:03:52,160 --> 00:03:54,280 Speaker 2: Now I get to design gear for it and a 85 00:03:54,320 --> 00:03:58,800 Speaker 2: mask and pads and et cetera. Sticks so I'm I'm juiced. 86 00:03:58,800 --> 00:04:00,400 Speaker 2: I can't wait for everyone to see. I mean, I 87 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,560 Speaker 2: put out my mask already, so that got some positive reaction, 88 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:06,480 Speaker 2: but I can't wait for the rest of the year. 89 00:04:06,320 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: To come out for everyone to say, take me through 90 00:04:08,600 --> 00:04:11,080 Speaker 1: the mask, the design and what kind of concept that 91 00:04:11,080 --> 00:04:13,440 Speaker 1: that you wanted to conceive from the get go. 92 00:04:14,320 --> 00:04:17,440 Speaker 2: I so I work very closely with my mass painter, Shifty. 93 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,120 Speaker 2: He does an incredible job, and he and I usually 94 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:22,479 Speaker 2: have like a sit down and we decid what we 95 00:04:22,520 --> 00:04:24,039 Speaker 2: want to do. I mean, obviously we wanted to do 96 00:04:24,080 --> 00:04:27,120 Speaker 2: glow in the dark paint right away, and he kind 97 00:04:27,160 --> 00:04:28,720 Speaker 2: of came to me with the idea of the eyes 98 00:04:28,800 --> 00:04:30,839 Speaker 2: on the side and then some crack and logos and 99 00:04:31,760 --> 00:04:34,280 Speaker 2: I loved it. And I think I think with mass painters, 100 00:04:34,360 --> 00:04:37,120 Speaker 2: especially like their artists. So if they see a vision, 101 00:04:37,160 --> 00:04:38,880 Speaker 2: if he sees some vision and he's like, it's gonna 102 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:40,360 Speaker 2: be sick, I'm like, cool, do it. 103 00:04:40,440 --> 00:04:40,640 Speaker 1: You know. 104 00:04:40,720 --> 00:04:43,160 Speaker 2: I'm never like a I need you to do it 105 00:04:43,440 --> 00:04:46,120 Speaker 2: black and white like this, because then usually they feel 106 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,159 Speaker 2: like they're restricted into, you know, a confined boundary, and 107 00:04:50,160 --> 00:04:52,480 Speaker 2: then that's it's hard for their creativity to come out 108 00:04:52,760 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 2: that way. So with masks, I usually just let him 109 00:04:54,920 --> 00:04:55,400 Speaker 2: run with it. 110 00:04:55,480 --> 00:04:57,480 Speaker 1: We talked a little bit about routine. Also, there is 111 00:04:57,520 --> 00:04:59,440 Speaker 1: the concept of what you put into your body, but 112 00:04:59,480 --> 00:05:02,040 Speaker 1: also sleep how important is it and how much are 113 00:05:02,080 --> 00:05:03,360 Speaker 1: you getting on an average per night. 114 00:05:04,800 --> 00:05:08,680 Speaker 2: Well, sleep is probably the number one form of recovery 115 00:05:08,680 --> 00:05:10,960 Speaker 2: that you can get. I mean probably neck and neck 116 00:05:11,040 --> 00:05:16,200 Speaker 2: with with nutrition obviously. For me, I my sleep needs 117 00:05:16,240 --> 00:05:19,640 Speaker 2: depend every single night. I wear a whoop so I 118 00:05:19,720 --> 00:05:22,479 Speaker 2: track my my sleep from the night before. That gives 119 00:05:22,480 --> 00:05:24,120 Speaker 2: me a baseline for what I need the next night, 120 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:27,839 Speaker 2: and then usually depending on how difficult my day is, 121 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:29,839 Speaker 2: how good my sleep was the night before, that determines 122 00:05:29,839 --> 00:05:31,840 Speaker 2: how much I need the next night. I would say 123 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:35,160 Speaker 2: after a game, I typically need about nine nine to 124 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:37,960 Speaker 2: nine and a half hours of sleep to get full recovery. Now, 125 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,800 Speaker 2: after a game, when we're going to bed super late, 126 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:42,919 Speaker 2: it's it's hard to get that. So a lot of 127 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,279 Speaker 2: naps and then focusing on the next night, trying to 128 00:05:45,279 --> 00:05:46,359 Speaker 2: get a really good night's sleep. 129 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:49,240 Speaker 1: Important sleep for important nights certainly ahead and there's more 130 00:05:49,240 --> 00:05:51,400 Speaker 1: of them. Joey, appreciate your time. Thanks, thanks for that much. 131 00:05:51,640 --> 00:05:55,120 Speaker 1: You're home for there. Sports Radio ninety three point three 132 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,520 Speaker 1: kJ r FM