The game is over. The gear is off. Now comes one of the most important — and most mishandled — moments in a goaltender’s development: what you do with it in your head. Most goalies fall into one of two traps after a game. Either they replay every bad goal on a loop until it becomes a weight they carry into the next week, or they check out entirely — tell themselves it’s over and move on without extracting anything useful from the experience. Both approaches leave development