SensibleGuy
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- Nov 26, 2011
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Pretty awesome. I caught about 20 minutes of one of the practices recently at the Iceplex and watching the players up close running through drills I was really struck by the sheer otherworldly physical abilities ALL the guys who get to the NHL have. I was watching Scheif and another player taking one-timers. Scheif was standing by the board just in front of the goal line and winging passes to the other guy across the ice near the other boards who would then blast a one-timer at the net. One of his shots missed the top left corner and hit the glass behind the net and careened around at high speed to where MS was standing and without turning, he lifts his stick behind him and traps the careening puck off the glass, drops it back down in front of him and passes it back across the ice. It took me a second to realize what he'd just done it happened so smoothly. it wasn't so much the fact that he'd done this really quite difficult thing (I mean the puck was really moving!) but the casualness of it. If I'd done it I would be all "did you SEE what I just did??!" For him it was more like "yeah I don't feel like reaching four feet over to get a fresh puck so I'm just going to catch this one blasting around the boards here behind me and use it instead."