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When Braden Holtby picks up the water bottle and flicks drops toward the corner of the ice, tracking each with his eyes honed in, the idea is to return his brain to the present and the immediate future, to what’s happening at that very moment and what’s about to transpire in the next. It is a concentration mechanism, odd for a goalie who once only wanted to learn the technical aspects of the game.
“It’s moving, and it’s a little hard to see,” Holtby said of those drops. “It kind of brings me back to neutral.”
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