He changed his diet early in his career.
What drives Jonathan Toews? Let's start with the sleepovers
The only difference now is that he talks more about it, which has allowed fans to fixate on it.
And I doubt very many hockey players eat a ton of bread, since it's all processed sugars and **** carbs. Even the best, healthiest breads don't have a ton of nutrients your body makes use of.
Whether it's mental, physical, diet related, complacency...it really doesn't matter. Whatever he's doing, it isn't working, and at his salary, he better f***ing figure it out, or the Hawks are done.
He's lost his explosiveness, his power, his speed... Even that wicked release he used to have on his snap shot is gone... He takes forever to release his shots now, and they lack any kind of zip...
He looks FATIGUED just about every game I watch him play. How many hockey players do you know, that aren't battling a disease, have pretty much all of their attributes tank at once? It's pretty much unheard of. As a shooter, your release is typically the LAST thing to go.
As someone that has played the game for 30+ years now, he looks to me like a hockey player that just doesn't have the juice to do what he needs to do. He looks like guys look in the third period, when they have a 2 man bench, and are exhausted from playing the whole game...
