InGoal Magazine Summer Camp Edition : Pg 44
Jaroslav Halak ask a pro by Kevin Woodley Ask A prO IntervIews This article and several others in this issue are part of our ask-a-pro feature at InGoal Maga-zine. Each week our readers are able to send in questions for another great pro goalie or goalie coach which we bring to them right in the locker room. The interviews are published in the InGoal Newsletter -and subscriptions are free! Become a subscriber today! I nGoal Magazine sat down to pose a handful of our readers’ questions to St. Louis standout and former Montreal Canadiens playoff hero Jaroslav Halak. a window from saves of the past week so it was great to see them all the time. “And when I was watching and then obviously I would want to make the saves like that in practice and games, trying to save the puck the same way that I saw it on TV. Every young guy and kid wants to catch the puck like the guys in Halak’s answers provided some unique insights the NHL.” into his path from Slovakia to the NHL and the role Rollie Melanson played in it, as well as InGoal Magazine reader Henri Carriere asks: equipment-related tidbits sure to interest every “We’ve heard a lot about the goalie coaching in goalie (like getting a new glove every three Finland starting at a young age. When was your first goalie coach growing up in Slovakia? weeks!). InGoal Magazine reader John Hebert from Jaroslav Halak: “It was different in Slovakia. I Quebec asks: “Who did you admire growing up had a goalie coach maybe when I was 12 or 13 in Slovakia? Was it a local goalie there, or guys but he wasn’t there all the time. We had a goalie practice every week, once a week, and that was playing in the NHL?” it. We worked on everything, but most of the Jaroslav Halak: “When I was younger I used stuff that I use now I learned from (former to like all the goalies in the NHL. I remember Montreal Canadiens and current Vancouver I used to like Patrick Roy and Cujo (Curtis Canucks goaltending coach) Rollie Melanson. Joseph) were my favourites at the time. We used I worked with him since I was 17 and he was to have every Saturday morning a show called the big key for me. He really helped me a lot Power Week and it was all the highlights from to develop my system and I am just trying to the past week in the NHL and there was always maintain the same thing what he teached me.” 44 InGoal Magazine Summer Camp Edition
Jaroslav Halak Ask a Pro
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