“If you’re asking somebody to make big adjustments and you’re not giving them a chance to play a lot of games to get comfortable with them, that’s a pretty tall task, and that’s the one thing I wonder about. It puts a lot of burden on Peter Aubry. If there’s not going to be a lot of game reps, whether it’s Levi or one of the other goalies, especially if they’re making changes to find the things that make them comfortable. To try and help them adjust the things that they need to get more comfortable with and then walk into a game and not overthink it is a challenge.

“The easiest thing to say and the hardest thing to do is just to go out and play. Good goalie coaches find ways to sort of get their guys there with the right work and the right drills. I would say that one of the things they’re going to have to be cognizant of is how they manage practices, how they structure practices, and that goes beyond the goalie coach. That’s the whole staff being on the same page in terms of how they manage rest, how they manage reps, and giving the goalies opportunities. There are times where the job is (in practice) you’ve got to be a target, you’ve got to put up with the crap and you’re just basically there to stand in a skill session and get absolutely peppered. But you better find a balance where you can get something that resembles game reps for some of these guys to make sure they can work on things and stay sharp when they have long gaps between starts.”

“I want to preface my comment by saying I might be a bit biased. When you get to know some of these guys, and you see the work rate, and I really like him as a person, and I hope he has success and I’ve seen the passion that he has for it. I’ve been on the ice with him in the summers and seen some of the highlight reel saves that he makes in these scrimmages. So, I just want to put that out there.

“Now, he does a lot of his training in three-on-three ranks, and one thing that’s really important for goalies now is pace and being able to sort of maintain a high pace at the elite levels of the National Hockey League. He has all the pace in the world. He has all the horsepower in the world, and he pays attention to the fine details that allow him to control that pace.

“I do think sort of managing depth and finding a line for him between aggressive and over-aggressive will be an important part, just because the game has changed since he last played in the NHL on a regular basis and there were things he did that he likely won’t be able to keep doing now to have success. If he wants to come way out on a breakaway or on a shootout and use that skating to his advantage, that’s one thing, but I point to the (Dustin) Wolf model and that contained element that is now in his game is what Levi will need.”