After he had taken a penalty, you could almost see his mental gears grinding on the next shift. While Frederic had his high points last year, the occasional mistakes appeared to have a deleterious effect on his play. It would seem like a smart approach for Frederic. I know more and more people are using it.” That’s something new I’ve done, and I’m going to try to stick with it during the year and use that aspect of the sport. You train your body all summer and you have to train the mental side of it, too.

It’s just something I’m trying to put into my head. You don’t want to have a negative mindset. I was trying to score, obviously, but if you don’t think it’s going to go in yourself, it’s never going to go in. You go into a game trying not to make a mistake. I can see that as I’ve gone through the beginning of my NHL career. “A lot of guys have the same skills, but a lot of (success) is mental. But it’s just like training the other parts of your body,” said Frederic after a workout at Warrior Ice Arena. As weird as it sounds, I never thought you needed something like that. “It was just about talking to someone and trying to figure things out. He also worked with a skating coach every morning in the summer.īut Frederic also worked quite a bit in the offseason with Eric Hoffberg, a former hockey coach at RIT who now specializes in coaching “mental toughness” aimed at higher performance.

Louis areas shooting pucks, working on different shooting angles and release points. He spent much of the offseason in his parents’ basement in the St.

Frederic is still working on his on-ice skills.

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