Jordan McPherson

You're the exact same thing every single time.

I do agree with that.

Eventually, he's going to have that chance to have a cross-ice empty net shot.

Yes.

He needs to be ready for it.

Whoever the backup goaltender is dropping the pucks for face-offs.

In full pad.

Give me a Daniil Tarasov or a Sergei Bovrovsky right in the middle of Anton Lundell and Et tu, Louis Ryan going for face-offs.

I like it.

Yeah, those first days of training camp.

Yeah, the first days of training camp when Paul Maurice just wants to absolutely just tear them apart.

He lines 10 pucks up at center ice.

And for each puck, the players have to do a board battle, do a lap, repeat it the other way.

So player A...

Doing the board battle with player B, do a lap.

Player B with player A, do a lap.

He throws one puck away, you repeat until there are no pucks left.

Day one, there are 10 pucks.

It's a half hour to 45 minutes the first day, and it goes back about five minutes or so each day up until their first preseason game.

The players absolutely hate it, but at the end of the day, they realize how beneficial it is.