October 24, 2025 • 5 mins
An exclusive between goaltender Joey Daccord and Mike Benton for this season's latest "Meet The Kraken" episode.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's time to meet the Kruken with Mike Minton goa
Tocord back and there for another NHL season joining us.
Thank you very much for a few moments for you
to see you once again, my friend. First off, I'll
start as a goalie entering your third full season here.
How does your focus shift from five years ago to
now since you're in the NHL now full time?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, trucifully, it changes. Every year. You re reassess and
kind of decide where you're at, where the game's at,
what you need to do to best help the team,
and go into each season with that new set of
goals and structure that you want to implement to best
help the team win games. At the end of the day,
we're all individuals here trying to help the team win
(00:42):
and come together as a group. So it changes from
your to ear.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So putting this into context, this is a pretty normal question.
When you're asked us to say age twenty or when
someone enters adulthood and you're now twenty nine, when's the
last time someone asked you what do you want to
be in five to ten years from now? And how
much have you thought about that? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, I feel old all of a sudden, I apologize, Yeah, yeah,
I haven't. I haven't put a lot of thought. I
try not to look too too far ahead like that
because for me, I'm a very process and structure oriented person.
So it's like, okay, you know, especially if you're looking
at hockey season, it's like, I'm looking at the next
game and what I need to do to prepare for
(01:20):
the next game to be at my best and help
the team win. And I think it's much easier to
move forward that way and to keep getting one percent
better and just keep progressing that way as opposed to
being like, well, in five years, I want to be
this now. It's also, I think beneficial sometimes to look
at it in a backwards perspective and say, Okay, in
(01:40):
five years, I want to be here, and Okay, what
do I need to do on day one of you know,
fifteen hundred plus days to get to where I want
to be in year five? So that's not also, you know,
a bad way to go boy, right? As well?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Training takes up a lot of your time during the summer.
What else were you able to enjoy when you were
back home in Boston?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Really, I just sit on the couch and uh, watch
it not kidding. I love yeah, yeah, I love doing
stuff for me Like I put my work in, I
get what I need to in from a training standpoint,
but we get a couple of months a year where
we were on our own schedule. And I love to travel.
I love to see the world. I love to do
fun things. So you know, I love going to Europe.
(02:22):
This summer I went to Europe a couple of times,
fortunate enough to obviously play for a team USA and
World Championships, which was also a bit of a European
excursion as well. And then and then traveled around a
little bit after over to Italy and Switzerland, spent time
with my Swiss family. And then I love going to
the lake. I love I love wakesurfing, going to the beach,
hanging out with friends and family. You know, I went
(02:44):
my brother. We went to New York City and watched
our favorite soccer team, Manchester United play in the preseason
summer tour from the Premier League. So that was really cool. Yeah,
just lots of fun stuff. And then that way, I'm
I'm reset and recharged once once the sea rolls around.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Congratulations, by the way, on the gold medal.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Thank you to media. Yeah, it was hard to put
into words. I mean, just the whole experience, going from
playing or sorry, just getting invited to play for TMOSA.
I've never had that honor before, and putting on the
jersey for the first time, the red, white, and blue
was hard. Hard to describe that feeling and just meant
(03:24):
the world to me and my family and to get
that opportunity, I couldn't have been more grateful. And now
you look at you know, actually playing and playing the
games and then winning the tournament was a dream come true.
And I'm going to have that gold medal for the
rest of my life. So pretty incredible experience.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
The third jersey is looking pretty good, but to you,
how good is it?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's sick. Yeah. I'm a huge fan for more than
one reason, and the biggest reason being it's it's nasty,
like it looks unreal. Second reason being as a goalie.
Now I get to design gear for it and a
mask and pads and et cetera. Sticks so I'm I'm juiced.
I can't wait for everyone to see. I mean, I
put out my mask already, so that got some positive reaction,
(04:03):
but I can't wait for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
To come out for everyone to say, take me through
the mask, the design and what kind of concept that
that you wanted to conceive from the get go.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I so I work very closely with my mass painter, Shifty.
He does an incredible job, and he and I usually
have like a sit down and we decid what we
want to do. I mean, obviously we wanted to do
glow in the dark paint right away, and he kind
of came to me with the idea of the eyes
on the side and then some crack and logos and
I loved it. And I think I think with mass painters,
(04:34):
especially like their artists. So if they see a vision,
if he sees some vision and he's like, it's gonna
be sick, I'm like, cool, do it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I'm never like a I need you to do it
black and white like this, because then usually they feel
like they're restricted into, you know, a confined boundary, and
then that's it's hard for their creativity to come out
that way. So with masks, I usually just let him
run with it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
We talked a little bit about routine. Also, there is
the concept of what you put into your body, but
also sleep how important is it and how much are
you getting on an average per night.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, sleep is probably the number one form of recovery
that you can get. I mean probably neck and neck
with with nutrition obviously. For me, I my sleep needs
depend every single night. I wear a whoop so I
track my my sleep from the night before. That gives
me a baseline for what I need the next night,
and then usually depending on how difficult my day is,
(05:27):
how good my sleep was the night before, that determines
how much I need the next night. I would say
after a game, I typically need about nine nine to
nine and a half hours of sleep to get full recovery. Now,
after a game, when we're going to bed super late,
it's it's hard to get that. So a lot of
naps and then focusing on the next night, trying to
get a really good night's sleep.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Important sleep for important nights certainly ahead and there's more
of them. Joey, appreciate your time. Thanks, thanks for that much.
You're home for there. Sports Radio ninety three point three
kJ r FM
It's time to meet the Kruken with Mike Minton goa
Tocord back and there for another NHL season joining us.
Thank you very much for a few moments for you
to see you once again, my friend. First off, I'll
start as a goalie entering your third full season here.
How does your focus shift from five years ago to
now since you're in the NHL now full time?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Well, trucifully, it changes. Every year. You re reassess and
kind of decide where you're at, where the game's at,
what you need to do to best help the team,
and go into each season with that new set of
goals and structure that you want to implement to best
help the team win games. At the end of the day,
we're all individuals here trying to help the team win
(00:42):
and come together as a group. So it changes from
your to ear.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
So putting this into context, this is a pretty normal question.
When you're asked us to say age twenty or when
someone enters adulthood and you're now twenty nine, when's the
last time someone asked you what do you want to
be in five to ten years from now? And how
much have you thought about that? Maybe?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Well, I feel old all of a sudden, I apologize, Yeah, yeah,
I haven't. I haven't put a lot of thought. I
try not to look too too far ahead like that
because for me, I'm a very process and structure oriented person.
So it's like, okay, you know, especially if you're looking
at hockey season, it's like, I'm looking at the next
game and what I need to do to prepare for
(01:20):
the next game to be at my best and help
the team win. And I think it's much easier to
move forward that way and to keep getting one percent
better and just keep progressing that way as opposed to
being like, well, in five years, I want to be
this now. It's also, I think beneficial sometimes to look
at it in a backwards perspective and say, Okay, in
(01:40):
five years, I want to be here, and Okay, what
do I need to do on day one of you know,
fifteen hundred plus days to get to where I want
to be in year five? So that's not also, you know,
a bad way to go boy, right? As well?
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Training takes up a lot of your time during the summer.
What else were you able to enjoy when you were
back home in Boston?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Really, I just sit on the couch and uh, watch
it not kidding. I love yeah, yeah, I love doing
stuff for me Like I put my work in, I
get what I need to in from a training standpoint,
but we get a couple of months a year where
we were on our own schedule. And I love to travel.
I love to see the world. I love to do
fun things. So you know, I love going to Europe.
(02:22):
This summer I went to Europe a couple of times,
fortunate enough to obviously play for a team USA and
World Championships, which was also a bit of a European
excursion as well. And then and then traveled around a
little bit after over to Italy and Switzerland, spent time
with my Swiss family. And then I love going to
the lake. I love I love wakesurfing, going to the beach,
hanging out with friends and family. You know, I went
(02:44):
my brother. We went to New York City and watched
our favorite soccer team, Manchester United play in the preseason
summer tour from the Premier League. So that was really cool. Yeah,
just lots of fun stuff. And then that way, I'm
I'm reset and recharged once once the sea rolls around.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Congratulations, by the way, on the gold medal.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Thank you to media. Yeah, it was hard to put
into words. I mean, just the whole experience, going from
playing or sorry, just getting invited to play for TMOSA.
I've never had that honor before, and putting on the
jersey for the first time, the red, white, and blue
was hard. Hard to describe that feeling and just meant
(03:24):
the world to me and my family and to get
that opportunity, I couldn't have been more grateful. And now
you look at you know, actually playing and playing the
games and then winning the tournament was a dream come true.
And I'm going to have that gold medal for the
rest of my life. So pretty incredible experience.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
The third jersey is looking pretty good, but to you,
how good is it?
Speaker 2 (03:43):
It's sick. Yeah. I'm a huge fan for more than
one reason, and the biggest reason being it's it's nasty,
like it looks unreal. Second reason being as a goalie.
Now I get to design gear for it and a
mask and pads and et cetera. Sticks so I'm I'm juiced.
I can't wait for everyone to see. I mean, I
put out my mask already, so that got some positive reaction,
(04:03):
but I can't wait for the rest of the year.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
To come out for everyone to say, take me through
the mask, the design and what kind of concept that
that you wanted to conceive from the get go.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
I so I work very closely with my mass painter, Shifty.
He does an incredible job, and he and I usually
have like a sit down and we decid what we
want to do. I mean, obviously we wanted to do
glow in the dark paint right away, and he kind
of came to me with the idea of the eyes
on the side and then some crack and logos and
I loved it. And I think I think with mass painters,
(04:34):
especially like their artists. So if they see a vision,
if he sees some vision and he's like, it's gonna
be sick, I'm like, cool, do it.
Speaker 1 (04:40):
You know.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
I'm never like a I need you to do it
black and white like this, because then usually they feel
like they're restricted into, you know, a confined boundary, and
then that's it's hard for their creativity to come out
that way. So with masks, I usually just let him
run with it.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
We talked a little bit about routine. Also, there is
the concept of what you put into your body, but
also sleep how important is it and how much are
you getting on an average per night.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, sleep is probably the number one form of recovery
that you can get. I mean probably neck and neck
with with nutrition obviously. For me, I my sleep needs
depend every single night. I wear a whoop so I
track my my sleep from the night before. That gives
me a baseline for what I need the next night,
and then usually depending on how difficult my day is,
(05:27):
how good my sleep was the night before, that determines
how much I need the next night. I would say
after a game, I typically need about nine nine to
nine and a half hours of sleep to get full recovery. Now,
after a game, when we're going to bed super late,
it's it's hard to get that. So a lot of
naps and then focusing on the next night, trying to
get a really good night's sleep.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Important sleep for important nights certainly ahead and there's more
of them. Joey, appreciate your time. Thanks, thanks for that much.
You're home for there. Sports Radio ninety three point three
kJ r FM
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