ELITE GOALIES MISSION STATEMENTS
1. To provide goaltenders with guidance through a system that inspires personal growth and skills development.
2. To create an environment that supports both students and coaches on their journey towards discovering their own personal success.
3. To uphold an ideology that allows goalies and coaches to improve their skills, self-esteem and confidence by creating and setting goals, building character and improving their educational integrity.
4. To take an ego-less approach in which we connect goalies and coaches instead of competing with them.
MIKE VALLEY’S PERSONAL STATEMENTS
“At Elite Goalies, my mission is to make goalies better through analysis, repetition, education and correction. I also strive to assist and teach goalies how to stay balanced psychologically through our online goaltending system.
When working with a goaltender, my mission is to not necessarily change the goalie, but to make them better and more comfortable in all areas within the style that physically works for him. Not everyone is built the same, nor do they possess the same strengths or weaknesses. Therefore goaltenders cannot all play the same.
Goalie coaches often try to introduce too many complicated and restricted techniques which provide the goalies with less of an opportunity to utilize their instincts. Although coaches play an important role in all stages of development, goaltending techniques should not be too mechanical, complex or restrictive. If we cling blindly to them, goalies eventually become bound by their limitations.
A goalie should simply move without any deliberation or without any form of paralysis. Rather than one response for multiple situations, a goalie should have multiple responses, with our job being to educate the ability to ‘read and react’ with the correct, most appropriate response.
What makes a great goalie an ELITE goalie is the thousands of hours spent learning and understanding how to eliminate the unessential and unnecessary movement patterns. Elite Goalies have come to understand how to minimize over-thinking. When the puck drops, Elite Goalies are trained to just play! Elite Goalies looks forward to working with you and helping you reach your dreams.”
- Mike Valley
“Mike has a really unique approach to coaching goalies that brings together the mental and physical sides of the position seamlessly. He has the ability to explain the details of the position so that anyone can understand them, and has personally been a great mentor for me throughout my career.”