BB88
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- Jan 19, 2015
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Well I hope he makes use of it, because he's got work to do. As a comparison, another one of our draftees with skating issues, Cam Hillis, is working out with Barb Underhill 2-3 times per week this off-season. Jesperi just said he needs to ''get in the gym'' in his interview with the local media. Mmmm nope, that's not going to do it. He might have to learn the lesson the Leon Draisaitl way.
It seems to be a Finnish thing, which I like and don't like at the same time.
Laine/Ristolainen/Rantanen are training together in Turku, with the legendary Rautanen, all of them have the same goal, improve skating/1st steps.
Their training is versatile, not just hitting the weights, but they don't skate in the summers. Laine didn't really skate for 6months and he should be getting better as a skater. The reasoning from posters here is that you need to do the groundwork before you should try skating in the offseasons.
Yes both Rantanen& Ristolainen have improved their skating but is that maxing out the development(in skating)?
I like the Barkov way, he hired an figure skating coach last summer.