Inside the Meetings That Changed Everything for U.S. Hockey

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A decade ago, some of the brightest minds in American goaltending locked themselves in a hotel room in Ohio and didn’t come out until they had rewritten the way goalies were being developed in the United States.

It happened inside a suite at the Hyatt Regency in downtown Columbus in May 2015. The group gathered around a table in the living room portion of the suite. On one side sat Mike MacMillan, national coach-in-chief at USA Hockey. Across from him were longtime goaltending coaches Steve Carroll, Billy Switaj and Kevin Reiter, and longtime scout, coach and

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