After a long day at the gym or on the ice, a guy needs to decompress and get away from anything related to hockey. A healthy work to life ratio requires it. For Adrik Baranov, that bit of mental health maintenance is video games. Specifically, shooters. Counter Strike, Call of Duty, Doom and Halo to name a few but really he’s played all of the big ones. Sure, his shooting accuracy helps and his stamina lets him game for hours on end but truly the attribute that helps him the most in these games is his offensive read. His ability to predict what his opponent will do in game and get the kill puts him a step ahead of most of the folks he is playing with online. Often he seems to know what the opponent will do before they know themselves, leading to him being accused of being a hacker more often then not but it’s all just from his hard earned attributes he got from playing hockey for most of his life.

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