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Conference finals. Star goalie Carey Price?suffers an injury, and it doesnt look
good.Two time zones away in Edmonton, Devan Dubnyk, technically still property
of the Montreal Canadiens but on leave, cannot believe the sickest of ironies.I
remember watching that game too, and I was like, What the f---. Of course!
Dubnyk recalled this week, shaking his head. That was the very day I got
home.That day -- May 17, 2014 -- might have been rock bottom of an already awful
2013-14 season.Because the reality is that even if Dubnyk had not pulled the
plug on his season and had stayed in Montreal, where he was trying to work his
way into the organization, he was in no position to help the Habs.Dustin
Tokarski and Peter Budaj were ahead of him on the depth chart. And he was in a
place, both technically and mentally, having not played in forever, having had a
miserable season ... well, he wasnt going to help anyone.I wasnt dumb. I mean,
if I truly thought I would have had an opportunity, I wouldnt have gone
anywhere. But it had been such an insane season and I had a 10-month-old son at
home. I hadnt seen him for 10 weeks. Im practicing with six guys every day in
Brossard, Dubnyk said of the Habs practice facility. Theres more important
things I need to be doing in my life right now, and thats being a dad. The
Canadiens were awesome about it. I just told them I had to go see my son and my
wife.Just two and a half years later, now with the Minnesota Wild, Dubnyk finds
himself just ahead of Price atop the NHL with a .946 save percentage, a lofty
perch not based on catching lightning in a bottle but rather a continuation of
his technical and mental turnaround that began right after that 2013-14
season.The fun part about it is that it doesnt feel like anything crazy; it
doesnt feel like Im hanging on for dear life until something collapses, Dubnyk
said of his league-leading save percentage. It just feels like were playing well
together as a team, Ive got a great feeling standing back there. ... Theyre
letting me make great reads and be patient. Im just really comfortable back
there.Confidence, humility, humor, all three resonate during a half-hour
interview with ESPN.com Monday evening at the Wilds team hotel in downtown
Toronto.However painful that 2013-14 season might have been, it has no doubt
forged the person and goaltender that the 30-year-old is today.I always viewed
great adversity as a gift, Ive always believed in it,?Dallas Eakins, Dubnyks
former head coach with the Edmonton Oilers, said last Friday. I think it makes
us better people, better at our jobs, all those things, to go through some
nasty, nasty adversity. Probably that time in Edmonton and then going through a
couple of organizations very quickly, that was surely very hard on Devan and his
family.Former Oilers GM Craig MacTavish says he feels the same way.A lot of
times failure is the impetus that spurs development, MacTavish said Monday. I
really believe that with Devan. Whether its a mentality change, whether its a
commitment change, whatever it is, failure for me leads to opportunity when
framed the right way. And I think Devan really framed it the right way.Relayed
MacTavishs comment, Dubnyk concurred.You know what, I think hes right. You have
to go through these things in life and in your career, he said. Theres no way to
know what it is you have to go through. Not everyone has to get traded or go
down to the minors like I did.But that was indeed his path.The seeds of that
pivotal 2013-14 season were planted at the June 2013 draft in New Jersey when
word leaked that the Oilers were trying to acquire Cory Schneider from the rival
Vancouver Canucks (which McTavish confirms). Schneider would end up being traded
to the New Jersey Devils instead that weekend, but the psychological damage had
been done for Dubnyk, who was entering the final year of his contract.It was
disappointing, for sure, Dubnyk said. With MacT coming in as a new GM, hes the
boss, and he needs to build the team as he sees fit. Cory Schneider is a
world-class goalie, so its not like hes out there trying to get some bum to
replace me. But I was disappointed because I felt I had shown in the previous
year, it was my best season, I had a .920 [save percentage], I didnt understand
where it was coming from.What it did is plant the narrative with Oilers fans
that their goaltending wasnt good enough.His opening five games were a
nightmare, Dubnyk giving up 22 goals. It snowballed from there.I didnt do myself
any favors, I wasnt exactly knocking any pucks down, he said. Ill never forget
those first 4-5 games. I remember the days between games, I felt sick. Wed be on
the road and I would go to a movie to try and just lose myself for two hours. As
soon as the movie was over, I felt sick again. That was a really tough couple of
weeks to start the season.He actually steadied himself to some degree, but his
fate waas set.
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traded him to the Nashville Predators for Matt Hendricks on Jan. 15, 2014,
though Dubnyk played only two games.I remember when we traded him, I was talking
to him in my hotel room, said Eakins, now head coach of the Anaheim Ducks AHL
affiliate in San Diego. I was actually really excited for him.When a goaltender
is just OK or suffering, a good team is able to forge through and support the
goalie. That was the one thing we couldnt do in Edmonton. I felt terrible about
it personally. I know the organization didnt feel good about it, either. We
werent able to support Dubs on a nightly basis. And man, he was battling hard,
he was doing everything he could to try to help us win. I always appreciated
that about him and really respected that.Dubnyk has no bitterness toward the
Oilers, grateful for them for giving him his start.[But] my journey is that I
had to really crash and burn, and it took me to Arizona, he said, where I was
just so grateful at that point just to have a job in the NHL.He loved his short
time with the Arizona Coyotes, where he signed as a free agent in July 2014. Its
where he rebooted his career. Its where he met Sean Burke.He really started it
all for me. Burkey just gives you confidence without saying anything, Dubnyk
said. You know he thinks youre good. And if youre not doing something right, hes
going to tell you. Hes not going to beat around the bush. You know where you
stand with him and you know hes got your back.Burke, goalie coach and assistant
GM with the Coyotes at the time, had helped resurrect Mike Smiths career as
well. He saw another worthy project in Dubnyk.We got him sort of beat up and
bruised, Burke, now a Western scout for the Canadiens, said Monday. But I
remember thinking it was a good move on our part. Devan was always intriguing to
me, a big guy who moved fairly well. He came in with a really open mind. Hes a
really nice person. I just remember from the minute I met him that I knew he was
going to be a sponge.Dubnyk distinctly remembers after his third game of the
2014-15 season, a 6-5 win Nov. 2 at the Washington Capitals, that Burke took him
aside and showed him a video that helped his positioning through more efficient
movement.He wanted me to beat the pass on my feet and be set. That was really
it, it was pretty simple, Dubnyk said.It just sharpened everything up for me,
thats what got everything going for me.With Smith signed long-term and Dubnyk on
a one-year deal, Coyotes GM Don Maloney dealt Dubnyk to the Wild on Jan. 15,
2015 -- one year to the day after his trade by the Oilers.The Wild, flailing
away on miserable winless streak, saw their season completely turn around after
Dubnyks acquisition (for a third-round pick, no less). It proved a good move by
Wild GM Chuck Fletcher, who called it an act of desperation at the time. Dubnyk
went on a historic run, starting 40 straight games and almost single-handedly
pushing the struggling Wild from down the standings to into the playoffs.In the
meantime, Dubnyk began forging a very good working relationship with Wild goalie
coach Bob Mason. But on top of that he also found another edge in his game after
being introduced to Lyle Mast, a goalie guru who had developed a ground-breaking
teaching method that focused more on vertical movement than lateral movement
while tracking the puck.Mast has worked for years with Los Angeles Kings goalie
coach Bill Ranford and netminder Jonathan Quick, as well as other goalie coaches
and netminders in pro and junior. Dubnyk talks or texts with Mast around almost
every game.But this is more than just a technical revival. This meteoric rise
from the ashes of that 2013-14 season is just as much a mental one.Oh, 100
percent, Dubnyk said. Getting to that state of mind of just being grateful to
have a job.Seriously, he means that. He got to a point heading into July 1,
2014, with agent Mike Liut when he prepared himself to accept where his career
was going.Right before I signed in Arizona, the only thing I did accept just to
almost relieve some pressure, I just understood that at my age [28 at the time]
and the situation I was going in with Smithy there, is that my window might have
passed in terms of being a starter, he said. Just because of the way the league
is.Hes now a top-five goalie in the world.Signed to a six-year, $26 million deal
with the Wild in the summer of 2015, Dubnyk is in a good place. All around.Minny
is such a great place to raise a family, we enjoy it so much there, said Dubnyk,
who with his wife has two boys, 3 and 1. I mean, life is great. Gosh, it was so
close to being a whole lot different than that ...But its not. Because Devan
Dubnyk didnt give up. Because he stayed positive. He rolled up his sleeves and
went back to work, just as so many people counted him out.
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