He's playing great (owning the boards), but let's be honest... it helps to play with the Jets' best player Mark Scheifele. Scheifele has been the best player on the ice for either team in two of the Jets' first four games. He missed out on a four point night yesterday (which also would have been a fourth point for Laine) because of the sickening, cheap offside review (man, they need to get rid of those).
No he wouldn't, and you are the one who doesn't know really jackcrap about hockey training, even though you desperately want to think and act like that. And because of those issues, I don't have any reason to discuss with you about anything. Please don't spread your false information and twisted agenda here, or if you really need to do it for some reason (obvious Rautala hater) then do it without getting me involved. I have nothing to discuss with phony confrontists like you.
He is a strength and fitness coach for especially hockey players. And he cooperates with people who help the hockey players with straightforwardly hockey related things. This is how it works for hockey players with their training in general. Ben Prentiss and even Gary Roberts (even though he was a high class NHL player) aren’t much more than strength and fitness coaches either, but they have contacts that are experts in more hockey related things and arrange opportunities for their trainees to train other areas with those other experts. They also coordinate their training programs with these more hockey related trainers and each can give their expertese to be used in developing the essential things in the most efficient order, for the players training with those strength and fitness coaches.
Then move him to Tavares's wing and see if he can score 60 plus because he's not doing anything special at Centre defensively or dishing to the wingers? Unless they can find play maker wingers that work with him Nylander possibly being one and getting another for other side?
Wow thanks ! So instead of closing the debate, the stats just raise more questions. So he needs to play a bit and play well enough (not too good, not too bad) to be at his best, right ?
Don't get me wrong I think he's a great player to. Where I have a problem is when some suggest he's top 5 player in league which I don't agree with at all. I'd love to have him on my team but there are others who are as equal or better I'd take at this moment instead to build around as well.
He never said that he threw away what he got from the Jets. He said in fact that he just has got in general so much of stuff from different teams that his trainees play for, that there’s not enough time in the world to do all the things that the materials are about. He said in fact that he has them all kept and filed. And he was in fact talking mostly about what he had got from Buffalo, because his long time NHL trainee Ristolainen had been training with Rautala already for years at that point.He is a track coach who uses track methods to coach hockey players. Now obviously the fact that he is decathlon coach who gradually shifted coaching hockey guys, does not absolutely mean, that his methods could not absolutely work as physical training for hockey, but nevertheless he is not a hockey coach. He has himself stated that he has not changed his methods in several decades since the days he started in track. So in no way can you say that he is a trainer who has especially developed training methods for ice hockey physical training. He is a fittness coach who uses methods from track strength training; that's all folks. He has also said that he threw to carbage bin some tippers he got from Jets trainers, so I'm not sure how cooperative he is either
