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***Figgy*** · 02-26-2024, 10:14 AM

The thoughts of Dan Johnston threading his way through a defense core only to slide the puck past the keeper all soft and silky is humorous at best. Dan just laughs the whole situation off and uses some self depreciative humor calling himself WISH.com Bobby Orr. The thought of switching up to a straight offensive defensemen flashes through his head and he considers it for about 2 seconds before realizing that it was definitely just a one off. Dan loved the feeling and excitment of the rush and may jump up into the play a little bit more, but at the same time he completely realizes his role on the Inferno back end is to keep the pucks out of his own net and not necessarily to be potting it into the opposing net. After practice Dan walks in to see the equipment manager has switched out his name plate to an Orr 2.0 name plate and new jersey with the name on it too. Dan took these home and had them framed for his collection.

Credit to Ragnar and Enigmatic for the great Signatures

***Anthique*** · 02-26-2024, 10:50 AM

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I was not always a goalie so my skating abilities and my puckhandling with a normal stick were always good. So when at practice I used my moves it was not a surprises for me, but more for my teammates. They used to see me as the goalie that stop almost everything, but when they saw me deke through the defense in the drill, they didn't believe it. I can't show them with me goalie equipment on so it was a shock to them that I'm able to deke like that.
I will not change position for this player, but I will not recreate as a goalie.
Bobby Orr will always be one of the best players that played the game of hockey and it was a honor to "meet" him and get some tips out of him! He changed the game for the better (at least that's what I think) and I would have love to watch him play live.

Halkohol · 02-26-2024, 11:01 AM

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Written Task: How does your player train skating? Leg workouts? Bag skates for days? Some combination of the above? 

As before, your player does not need to be correct. Feel free to write absolute madness, flex your knowledge of real-world athletic training, or anywhere in between.

It is time to flex some knowledge, or well, partly. Sadly, I never trained hockey so I do not actually know any good routines for practising skating. All my few attempts to actually study and learn how to skate have been in recent years and that is solely on the ice, in public, without any real instructor and only myself and what I read on the internet or what I was told about more knowledgeable friends. Still, this is only for novice skating and since Niclas Sundqvist is on a greater level I am not sure how helpful that is. Instead, I'll go with my gym knowledge and some things that I've picked up on how hockey players train. So let's build a leg day workout. Important for skating? Core and leg strength therefore the obvious start is squats. Something I actually know skaters IRL do practice. We of course follow this up with leg press as well as leg extensions and leg curls. That takes care of quite a lot of the legs but we need to finish up with some calf raises. And why not put in even more for some good measure. We round things up with both lunges with dumbbells as well as Romanian deadlifts to make sure the legs really feel it.

Now that's great for leg strength but we also need some actual skating practice so why not make sure we take the days without leg day to focus on going for laps on the ice to work up precision. agility, speed and acceleration. As for stamina, let's take some hours on the bike to improve general stamina and get some more workout done in the legs but also Sundqvist would do the wide threadmill which you can use rollerskates on to up the actual stamina needed for those long hockey games when the legs really start to feel like jelly.

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***Citizen of Adraa*** · 02-26-2024, 12:00 PM

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Z0REM · 02-26-2024, 01:05 PM

Written Task: How does your player train skating? Leg workouts? Bag skates for days? Some combination of the above? As before, your player does not need to be correct. Feel free to write absolute madness, flex your knowledge of real-world athletic training, or anywhere in between.

Seamus is an excellent example of self-discipline as he runs a training program that some would say is Spartan, or just straight up crazy. He relies on general overall fitness with the the specific focus on training muscles groups related to foot muscles and leg muscles. The idea is that the longer he can skate at his top speed and deliver hits with reliable stability, then the more effective he can be for his team. Running on all terrains, practicing balancing, and general ballet skills all help to contribute to his overall precision on the ice. If you are always training on the ice, then there are some muscle groups you just cannot target as efficiently. When not doing general strength and flexibility training, then its about eye exercises. How fast can he react to a given situation. Seamus actually finds doing goalie training a good overall training regiment for skaters as well. If you can track the puck and transition quickly, then you can be where you need to be.

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