Whomever has shortest memory will have leg up in Blackhawks goalie competition
Let it go. Move on.
And stop the next puck.
This is the mentality every great goaltender develops over the course of his career.
It's one that the even-keeled Corey Crawford lived by and is a huge reason he'll go down as perhaps the best netminder in Blackhawks history.
The faster a goalie learns to forget about any goal - whether a good one or a soft one - the more likely he is to become an everyday pro.
It's a trait coach Jeremy Colliton and his staff will watch closely as Malcolm Subban, Collin Delia and Kevin Lankinen battle to be the Hawks' top man this season.
"When they do face a setback - they let in a goal or they have a night when they're not at their best - how do they bounce back? How do they respond?" said Colliton, whose team opens the season Wednesday at Tampa Bay. "Because how they react in situations like that, that will spread to the team.
"The players pick up on the vibe that's coming from the goaltenders. ... Crow - with all his experience and success - he had a swagger to him."
Subban (66), Delia (18) and Lankinen (zero) have a mere 84 games of NHL experience to their names.
• Subban, acquired in the Robin Lehner trade in February, is 30-21-7 overall but compiled that record while playing for the high-powered Vegas Golden Knights. He allowed 5 goals in four of his last eight starts with Vegas last season.
• Delia helped lead Rockford to the Calder Cup's Western Conference finals in 2018 and has remained a steady AHL goalie the last two years. He has struggled in 18 NHL appearances, however, allowing 3.65 goals per game.
• Lankinen posted some eye-popping stats in the Finnish Elite League from 2014-2018 and has appeared in 40 games for Rockford the last two seasons. If he carries over a strong summer camp into this one he might get a long look with the Hawks.
"We want to fill our goaltenders with confidence that we believe in them and they're going to have an opportunity," Colliton said. "It's going to be competition between them. And we're going to let it play out.
"But we're going to support them and we're hopeful that all of them are going to show that they have that (bounce-back) mentality."
Slap shot: Jeremy Colliton gave his players Thursday off after "a hard three days" to begin camp. They figure to start working on the power play and penalty kill when practice resumes Friday.
He said it: "I've had enough cuts on my face. I'm pretty as it is right now; I don't want to make that any worse. I think it's both precautionary and just sick of bleeding everywhere."
- Andrew Shaw on wearing a visor at training camp