Creative one

If we have had a great day at practice in Los Angeles and have done our usual stuff - like conditioning, tactics and powerplay, we let the players decide our last 20 minutes. Everyone gets to come up with a drill and has 5 minutes to do it. One time we just tried to improve our balance by trying to sweep our opponents feet, as if we were in almost like a fighting type scenario. Svoboda was a big crossfit guy in his teens, so he made us do a crossfit drill which included a burpee into a knuckle push-up into a jump over the stick. We did this for that 5 minutes straight and everyone was just beaten. I used this opportunity to run a recovery drill, with us laying on the ice feet elevated against the boards. It was fun, but the deep breathing and holding your breath was the hardest part of the last 20 minutes, when your body could simply not comprehend relaxation