What’s Flames netminder Devin Cooley reading right now?

So when we chatted with Cooley prior to the restart of the NHL schedule, we had a closing question for him: what are you reading right now? He told us he’s reading three books currently.

One’s by Carl Jung. He’s a philosopher. It’s Memories, Dreams and Reflections, something like that. And that’s kind of like a biography and some of his like basic ideas and where they came from.

And then I’m reading Clear Thinking, which is about when you’re feeling a little bit emotional or it kind of goes into a little bit of psychology and different tendencies that we kind of fall into. And it’s about trying to recognize those tendencies and understand like, OK, I didn’t eat well today or I didn’t sleep well or I’m emotional about something instead of just reacting like what a lot of us do, like, taking a step back, breathing and trying to think like in a clearer, clearer way. And that’s been really good. It’s a little basic, but it’s been really fascinating. And I think it goes well for being a goalie too, because if you’re getting lit up or whatever in practice, if guys are chirping you or whatever, like sometimes you can feel that like that temperature start to rise and you start to feel a little bit emotional. Sometimes you want to yell back and say something stupid or smack your stick or whatever. And it’s like, OK, just take a step back. This isn’t you. This is like your subconscious and your emotions like building up and don’t let them get the best of you.

And then what’s the other one? It’s called Behave. And it’s about basically all the neuroscience and psychology that goes into human behaviour and genetics and everything. It’s all combined like one giant book. And so basically to help explain like why humans act the way they do. And what I take it away from it is that basically there’s a million different variables that go into like behaviour and why people behave the way that they do. And there’s always a reason that people behave the way they do. And it just makes you a little more empathetic for when people act a certain way. So if someone gets mad at you or whatever, it’s like instead of being like, wow, this guy’s a jerk or whatever, you could just be like, maybe he’s having a bad day or maybe something happened in the past or whatever. And that’s why he is behaving the way he is, whatever. And it just makes you have a little bit more empathy. But then it also makes you realize how complicated humans are as a species and how complicated everybody is. Try not to read somebody because they’re probably way more complicated than you could ever imagine.

Cooley and the Flames conclude their three game California road trip on Sunday evening against the Anaheim Ducks.