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Episode 55 - Using Football Mindset to Develop and Maintain a Rich Hockey Heritage and Culture ...
Today's interview with Mike Snee - Vice President of the Minnesota Wild Foundation and Community Relations, provides am in-depth understanding of how one of the richest hockey talent populations in the USA maintains it's focus and integrity. Mike shares with us how the Minnesota hockey world is based upon a cultural heritage of the pride young athletes develop to represent their local communities. It is this "football" mentality ... the mindset of "I play for my local school with all of my friends" that has made this hockey community thrive for so many generations.
Mike also sheds light upon how all the local programs in Minnesota are subsidized by their local community centers/arenas. But in doing such, he also shares how local recruiting is nothing like what is seen across North America with Travel Hockey Programs. In Minnesota - recruiting is helping to get into playing at the "grassroots" level.
As a former director for College Hockey Inc. and the now the Vice President of the Wild Foundation and Community Relations - there is no-one more qualified to discuss the world of Minnesota Hockey.
Thank you Mike for taking the time to talk with us.
Mike Snee (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-snee-7513b96/)
26 Apr 2026
Episode 54 - "I'm just here to help build strong healthy human beings!" ... "The Goalie Therapist"
Dusty Imoo was once ranked as the number one ice hockey goalie prospect in the world. His statistics were beyond incredible .., and then "life happened". Dusty began realizing the pressures that were being placed upon him at an age where no-one knew how to help support and guide those having to deal with the pressures of being an elite athlete. Over time, these various forms of pressure became greater than that which a young athlete, living on own, in foreign environment should have to handle at a young age (15-18 years of age).
As an athlete, Dusty has put together a professional career in Japan that is beyond impressive. HIs elevation into that of becoming a professional goalie coach has been even more impressive - as he has trained professionals in the most elite leagues in the world (ie., NHL, KHL, AHL, and WHL). But it is not his technical teachings that goalies have been most drawn to him for - it's his ability to help create an inner calm within those he works with that has made him so very sought-after. So much so, that the list of elite professionals whom he has worked with is both long and impressive.
Today, Dusty works with not only goalies but those within a wide variety of sports as well as those within the world of business (ie., corp executives, directors ...).
But a really cool stat that Dusty Imoo has is equal to that of the Legendary play - Gordie Howe ... Dusty was able to backup for his son Jonah Imoo in a professional game. Making this the first and only Father-Son goaltending combination to appear in a progressional ice hockey game.
Dusty Imoo - Contact information:
www.thegoalietherapist.com (www.thegoalietherapist.com)
21 Apr 2026
Episode 54 - The Gordie Howe of Goaltending ... "I'm here to help build Strong Healthy Human Beings ...'
Dusty Imoo was once ranked as the best ice hockey goaltender in world and today he finds himself helping others from all of the experiences he has gathered from his incredible journey. The Goalie Therapist - is one of the most humble and gracious people I have very met in sport(s). His "Zen-like" personality is both captivating and informative.
Dusty's professional athletic career is outstanding. Both his longevity as an athlete and then as a coach spans all across North America and the World as a whole. This playing/coaching career would provide him with the opportunity of a life-time in being able to "back-up" his son Jonah in a professional game (something that is both Gordie Howe-esque and never before seen).
Throughout this interview, Dusty shares some of the highs and lows he has experienced in his athletic career, and how he is passing onward his perspective and vigor to be one's best - by first being true to one's self. Today, Dusty works with not only ice hockey goalies but also athletes from various sports as well as executives.
Contact Information:
www.thegoalietherapist.com
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HeadSet Sports - Episode 39 - Interview with Jennifer Welter PhD
Published 26 Oct 2023 · Transcript excerpt
[…] What was your topic? My dissertation was, well, my master's thesis, I had a couple because we had to do a lot of projects in mine. One was parenting your child athlete because I really, what I realized is that a lot of the sports psychology things that we were learning needed to be geared towards kids and families and people who are struggling in sports. And then I looked at, then I did another project on the integration of playing drawing therapy with sports psychology to create, to create communication methods for kids to convey if something wasn't okay in this work that they were playing. And my, I remember my, my professor was actually a Canadian doctor Adrian Leslie to good who worked with the U . […]
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