October 7, 2025 • 8 mins
Seattle Kraken goalie Joey Dacccord joins Sarah to talk about the season opener on Thursday!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why don't two point five kzy Okay, it's Sarah super
excited have a special guest in studio. It is Joey
Decord from your Seattle Cracking.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome. How are we doing?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Doing awesome? How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm fantastic excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yeah, well, excited because the season is about to get underway.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Very true. Yeah, we're fired up. I can't wait for
the season yet. Go on Thursday night, be there, CPA.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So the season is getting ready to start, and you know,
it's some changes every year. You've got new players, you've
got people gone, you might have coaching changes. What do
you see different about this season?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Honestly, I've been saying this a lot, like the whole preseason.
I just I love the like, our group of guys
that we have in our locker room, we seem to have,
like the vibes just seem to be really high.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Everyone's super excited to get going.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I think we have a lot of belief in our
team and the guys that we have in our locker room.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And yeah, I think we're just really excited to get going.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Honestly, I mean, I've played this will be my third
full year with the Kraken, and you know, we've had
a lot of good players, and we've had a lot
of good people in our locker room. With this year,
to me, seems like the best group that we've had,
and I think we're just super excited. And I also
for me, you know, I've really enjoyed working with our
new coach Lane. He's like it's like when you have
(01:16):
a teacher that you just can learn really easily from,
Like they just kind of speak your language, and you know,
the way he works is the way my brain works.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And I really enjoyed working with him.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I think the guys in our room believe in him,
and yeah, we're pumped for Thursday and to get this
thing going. Well.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
All right, this might seem like a bit of a
weird question, but I've always wondered what is the off
season like? And I think about this because Patrick Mahomes
and Travis Kelsey like, of course it's a different sport,
it's football, but they got kind of hammered in the
off season saying they got dad bods. You know, So like,
do you guys just train on stop or do you
kind of like let it go and let your body rest.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
My assumption with those guys.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Is they got bad pictures taken of them, because those
guy's gotta be in great shape. You're like, there's no
way my homes has a dad bought. Maybe I'm wrong,
I mean I saw the pictures. I think they was
just a you know, caught him at a bad angle,
or maybe he was a little bloated.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, maybe you just eight or something. No, I mean,
it's it's a lot of training.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I mean the season, the seasons a grind for me personally,
Like as soon as the season ends, I take two
weeks off totally. I love going on vacation. I love
going to Europe, I love traveling.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So I'm out.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
As soon as the season ends, I'm gone. I'm like,
I'm going somewhere fun. But then yeah, back in the gym.
I take a while off the ice because playing goalie
is so.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's it's incredibly unique.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
And demanding on your body in a way that your
body is not supposed to move.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, like you that way.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, they're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
They're not and some some days more than others, it
feels like they're not supposed to move that way. But
for me, I take that time off the ace to
just allow my body to just.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Feel normal for a little while.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And also just like the mental reset, it's such a
long season that you have to you have to just
unplug mentally for a little bit. And that's what the
off season's about for me until you know the back
half of the off season, then I'm ramping it up, getting.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Ready to gotcha.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So, I mean, obviously you talk about the rigors of goalie.
Why did you decide to become a goalie? Is it
because your dad was Was it like the only equipment left,
Like you were the only kid who was like, I
don't be that goalie.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, I mean, yeah, I was born into a hockey family.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
My dad played college hockey, played professionally in the in
the Swiss professional league. He is now been a goalie
coach for my whole life. And I think while I
had a choice, I didn't have a choice, if that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And my dad just put me in goalie training.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
He did my first block of goalie training, goalie lessons
me when I was five.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh wow, So.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
He basically created a goalie in a lab, I like
to say, And I think he did an okay job,
where for sure we're doing all right now twenty five
years removed from that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So there's never like, hey, dad, I really want to
be a defenseman.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Know what happened? It happened when I was like thirteen.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I was like thirteen, fourteen years old, and I kind
of hit that point where I was having a lot
of fun playing forward and my dad was like, all right,
I was playing both. I was playing forward and goalie.
I was taking turns, I was playing for different teams
and whatever. And my dad was like, Joey, you're getting
old enough. Now we got to pick. And I was like,
I have so much fun scoring.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Scoring, so fun. And my dad was like, whatever you
want to do.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But we were at that age where you get a pick,
and I was like, what do you think I should do?
And he was like, you know, if you want to
play forward, absolutely go for it. But if he's like,
you got a pretty good chance to be a really
good goalie, and I was like, all right, let's play
goalie then.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And that's kind of how that happened.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, that was fifteen sixteen years ago, and now here
we are.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
It's working out okay for you.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, not too bad, not too bad.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So we've seen a shift over the past couple of
years where goalies used to start like every single game,
and now it's more tag team. Is that good for you?
Do you think? Or is there like a lot of rivalry?
Like you you sit there and wait, like, well, who's
getting the start? Is it going to be me? Like
do you want to start every day? Or is it
kind of cool that you guys share.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I think that that has happened in the last ten
issu years because of how much the.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Game has changed.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
If you were to go watch a game from ten
twelve years ago on TV, like, if you were to
watch it back, you'd be stunned at how different the
game looks.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
The game is completely different.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It's so much more demanding on goalies' bodies now, I
mean twenty years ago, like it wasn't nearly as taxing
on a goalie to play seventy out of the eighty
two games. Yeah, right, sixty five out of the eighty
two games. Now you're seeing most goalies are playing. Most
number one goalies are playing high forties into mid fifties,
and then there's a few goalies that play up into
(05:57):
the high fifties and sixties each year. But it's just
so demanding on your body so demanding. Mentally, I personally think,
you know, you need two goalies.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I think you need two goalies, and I think if
you rely on one, it's just too taxing on your body.
Now that being said, I love playing every single night,
and whatever coach asked me to do, I'm ready to do.
So if they need me to play, you know, every night,
I'm ready to go. So it's kind of whatever the
team needs for me. I'm just here to help the
team win in whatever way I can.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So this again might be a bit of an odd question,
but we've got Joey Decord from your Seattle crack in here.
I was watching a Bruins game and Celene Dion went
into the locker room and she had the list of
who was going to be starting that day. Yeah, and
it was it was so bizarre and kind of like
a little bit hokey. But like, I don't mean Selene Dion,
but is that how you find out who is starting,
(06:51):
like if you're starting or not.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Like somebody's like, hey, yeah, yeah, so for the goalie, No,
the goalie finds out the day before everyone else. Yes,
because everyone else knows they're playing in the game. It's
just who's getting the first shift. But if it was
like that, that would be that would that starting lineup
gets read after warmups, so like, it wouldn't really make
sense because the goalie wouldn't know who like which. Goalie
(07:14):
wouldn't know to take all the shots and warm ups
because if you're the starting goalie, you take eighty five
ninety percent of the shots and warm ups to prepare
for the game. So it wouldn't It wouldn't really make sense.
Although I'd never really thought about that. People are wondering
if the goalie finds out if he's starting right then,
but no, you you typically find out the evening before
the gotcha.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And so if somebody was going to come into the
locker room and make all those announcements, somebody like a
rock star or somebody from the world of music, I'm
guessing your pick wouldn't be Selene Dion. Who would it
be for you?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I mean, I like Celene Dion, She's a legend. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'd probably pick like maybe Morgan Wallen or someone cool
like that. I went to Benson Boone the other night,
so that'd be cool if he came in rather starting lineup.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, I'm there's so many cool people.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Well, I mean they're listening now, so I mean that
could happen.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, you never know, you never know. That'd be sweet.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
All right, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Thank you so much for joining us. Good luck on
this season again. The Kraken get underway on Thursday. It's
a long season. It's going to be a great season.
Joey d'court, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Thank you for having me.
Why don't two point five kzy Okay, it's Sarah super
excited have a special guest in studio. It is Joey
Decord from your Seattle Cracking.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Welcome. How are we doing?
Speaker 1 (00:10):
Doing awesome? How are you?
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'm fantastic excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yeah, well, excited because the season is about to get underway.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
Very true. Yeah, we're fired up. I can't wait for
the season yet. Go on Thursday night, be there, CPA.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
So the season is getting ready to start, and you know,
it's some changes every year. You've got new players, you've
got people gone, you might have coaching changes. What do
you see different about this season?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
Honestly, I've been saying this a lot, like the whole preseason.
I just I love the like, our group of guys
that we have in our locker room, we seem to have,
like the vibes just seem to be really high.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Everyone's super excited to get going.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I think we have a lot of belief in our
team and the guys that we have in our locker room.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
And yeah, I think we're just really excited to get going.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Honestly, I mean, I've played this will be my third
full year with the Kraken, and you know, we've had
a lot of good players, and we've had a lot
of good people in our locker room. With this year,
to me, seems like the best group that we've had,
and I think we're just super excited. And I also
for me, you know, I've really enjoyed working with our
new coach Lane. He's like it's like when you have
(01:16):
a teacher that you just can learn really easily from,
Like they just kind of speak your language, and you know,
the way he works is the way my brain works.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
And I really enjoyed working with him.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I think the guys in our room believe in him,
and yeah, we're pumped for Thursday and to get this
thing going. Well.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
All right, this might seem like a bit of a
weird question, but I've always wondered what is the off
season like? And I think about this because Patrick Mahomes
and Travis Kelsey like, of course it's a different sport,
it's football, but they got kind of hammered in the
off season saying they got dad bods. You know, So like,
do you guys just train on stop or do you
kind of like let it go and let your body rest.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
My assumption with those guys.
Speaker 3 (01:56):
Is they got bad pictures taken of them, because those
guy's gotta be in great shape. You're like, there's no
way my homes has a dad bought. Maybe I'm wrong,
I mean I saw the pictures. I think they was
just a you know, caught him at a bad angle,
or maybe he was a little bloated.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, maybe you just eight or something. No, I mean,
it's it's a lot of training.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
I mean the season, the seasons a grind for me personally,
Like as soon as the season ends, I take two
weeks off totally. I love going on vacation. I love
going to Europe, I love traveling.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
So I'm out.
Speaker 3 (02:27):
As soon as the season ends, I'm gone. I'm like,
I'm going somewhere fun. But then yeah, back in the gym.
I take a while off the ice because playing goalie
is so.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
It's it's incredibly unique.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
And demanding on your body in a way that your
body is not supposed to move.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
Yeah, like you that way.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Yeah, they're not supposed to do that.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
They're not and some some days more than others, it
feels like they're not supposed to move that way. But
for me, I take that time off the ace to
just allow my body to just.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Feel normal for a little while.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
And also just like the mental reset, it's such a
long season that you have to you have to just
unplug mentally for a little bit. And that's what the
off season's about for me until you know the back
half of the off season, then I'm ramping it up, getting.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Ready to gotcha.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
So, I mean, obviously you talk about the rigors of goalie.
Why did you decide to become a goalie? Is it
because your dad was Was it like the only equipment left,
Like you were the only kid who was like, I
don't be that goalie.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
No, I mean, yeah, I was born into a hockey family.
Speaker 3 (03:31):
My dad played college hockey, played professionally in the in
the Swiss professional league. He is now been a goalie
coach for my whole life. And I think while I
had a choice, I didn't have a choice, if that
makes sense.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
And my dad just put me in goalie training.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
He did my first block of goalie training, goalie lessons
me when I was five.
Speaker 2 (03:50):
Oh wow, So.
Speaker 3 (03:52):
He basically created a goalie in a lab, I like
to say, And I think he did an okay job,
where for sure we're doing all right now twenty five
years removed from that.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
So there's never like, hey, dad, I really want to
be a defenseman.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Know what happened? It happened when I was like thirteen.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
I was like thirteen, fourteen years old, and I kind
of hit that point where I was having a lot
of fun playing forward and my dad was like, all right,
I was playing both. I was playing forward and goalie.
I was taking turns, I was playing for different teams
and whatever. And my dad was like, Joey, you're getting
old enough. Now we got to pick. And I was like,
I have so much fun scoring.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Scoring, so fun. And my dad was like, whatever you
want to do.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
But we were at that age where you get a pick,
and I was like, what do you think I should do?
And he was like, you know, if you want to
play forward, absolutely go for it. But if he's like,
you got a pretty good chance to be a really
good goalie, and I was like, all right, let's play
goalie then.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
And that's kind of how that happened.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, that was fifteen sixteen years ago, and now here
we are.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
It's working out okay for you.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Yeah, not too bad, not too bad.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
So we've seen a shift over the past couple of
years where goalies used to start like every single game,
and now it's more tag team. Is that good for you?
Do you think? Or is there like a lot of rivalry?
Like you you sit there and wait, like, well, who's
getting the start? Is it going to be me? Like
do you want to start every day? Or is it
kind of cool that you guys share.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
I think that that has happened in the last ten
issu years because of how much the.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
Game has changed.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
If you were to go watch a game from ten
twelve years ago on TV, like, if you were to
watch it back, you'd be stunned at how different the
game looks.
Speaker 2 (05:33):
The game is completely different.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
It's so much more demanding on goalies' bodies now, I
mean twenty years ago, like it wasn't nearly as taxing
on a goalie to play seventy out of the eighty
two games. Yeah, right, sixty five out of the eighty
two games. Now you're seeing most goalies are playing. Most
number one goalies are playing high forties into mid fifties,
and then there's a few goalies that play up into
(05:57):
the high fifties and sixties each year. But it's just
so demanding on your body so demanding. Mentally, I personally think,
you know, you need two goalies.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
I think you need two goalies, and I think if
you rely on one, it's just too taxing on your body.
Now that being said, I love playing every single night,
and whatever coach asked me to do, I'm ready to do.
So if they need me to play, you know, every night,
I'm ready to go. So it's kind of whatever the
team needs for me. I'm just here to help the
team win in whatever way I can.
Speaker 1 (06:28):
So this again might be a bit of an odd question,
but we've got Joey Decord from your Seattle crack in here.
I was watching a Bruins game and Celene Dion went
into the locker room and she had the list of
who was going to be starting that day. Yeah, and
it was it was so bizarre and kind of like
a little bit hokey. But like, I don't mean Selene Dion,
but is that how you find out who is starting,
(06:51):
like if you're starting or not.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Like somebody's like, hey, yeah, yeah, so for the goalie, No,
the goalie finds out the day before everyone else. Yes,
because everyone else knows they're playing in the game. It's
just who's getting the first shift. But if it was
like that, that would be that would that starting lineup
gets read after warmups, so like, it wouldn't really make
sense because the goalie wouldn't know who like which. Goalie
(07:14):
wouldn't know to take all the shots and warm ups
because if you're the starting goalie, you take eighty five
ninety percent of the shots and warm ups to prepare
for the game. So it wouldn't It wouldn't really make sense.
Although I'd never really thought about that. People are wondering
if the goalie finds out if he's starting right then,
but no, you you typically find out the evening before
the gotcha.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
And so if somebody was going to come into the
locker room and make all those announcements, somebody like a
rock star or somebody from the world of music, I'm
guessing your pick wouldn't be Selene Dion. Who would it
be for you?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
I mean, I like Celene Dion, She's a legend. Yeah,
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I'd probably pick like maybe Morgan Wallen or someone cool
like that. I went to Benson Boone the other night,
so that'd be cool if he came in rather starting lineup.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
Yeah, I'm there's so many cool people.
Speaker 1 (08:01):
Well, I mean they're listening now, so I mean that
could happen.
Speaker 2 (08:04):
Yeah, you never know, you never know. That'd be sweet.
Speaker 1 (08:07):
I'll see what I can do.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
All right, sounds good.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Thank you so much for joining us. Good luck on
this season again. The Kraken get underway on Thursday. It's
a long season. It's going to be a great season.
Joey d'court, thank you for joining us.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Thank you for having me.
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