from Kevin Woodley at the NHL's website,

Joey Daccord wasn’t feeling great about his glove hand after the first period of a start with the Seattle Kraken earlier this season, so when he got back to the locker room he put on his virtual reality headset so he could catch some computer-generated pucks during the intermission.

Daccord loaded up a program called NHL Sense Arena and started a drill called the Goalie Cannon, which allows him to control exactly where the virtual shots are heading.

“I didn’t feel like I was super dialed [in] with my glove, like my glove was as clean as I want it to be,” he said. “So, I turned it on, lined it up to do high glove, middle glove, low glove and just caught a bunch of pucks in the intermission, and then I went back out and my glove felt better.”

If the idea that making saves in virtual reality can help an NHL goalie mid-game is surprising to some, it certainly isn’t to Daccord, who uses NHL Sense Arena as part of his preparations before every game he’s scheduled to start.

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