Devin Cooley is detailing what may have been the toughest stretch of his pro hockey career — and yet he doesn’t stop smiling.

If anything, his grin is only growing.

One of two candidates to open this season as the Calgary Flames backup puck-stopper, the 28-year-old Cooley has just been asked what went wrong for him last season, when he was the AHL’s best netminder in the early stages but then struggled mightily in the second half.

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The happy-go-lucky goalie is eager to explain, excited to share what he learned during a summer of study and self-discovery. During the off-season, he devoured about 20 books on a wide range of topics.

“You want to talk about finding meaning in suffering…” Cooley told Postmedia at the outset of train

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