It’s not really about doing what has worked for him in Europe at all. His development plan is made on the basis of what has worked well for Rasmus Ristolainen and Mikko Rantanen, whom have both developed physically extremely well during the years that they trained with Rautala. Ristolainen has amazing stamina and he is amongst the players that play top minutes in the whole NHL. Rantanen has also very good stamina and both of them have developed their first steps also considerably during the years that they have trained in Rautala’s group. Neither had substantial development in just two or three years though.From his comments regarding his summer training you kind of get the idea he thinks he doesn't need to skate during the summer... I hope he changes that. What worked before when he was playing in Europe might not work the same in the NHL. He has a lot of work to do...
The point was last season to maximize the physical training with explosiveness to leg muscles and by running exercises for getting better stamina. He said it himself that the decision was exactly to get as quick as possible the physical training forwards, as he had a couple of off season setbacks from the previous years because of injuries. He will add skating based training at some point to his off season training for sure, but I’m pretty sure it will not happen even this off season yet. At least I will be surprised if that would happen already that soon.
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