I can't help but feel tired from watching Day Two of Training Camp -- yes just from watching. Jeremy Collilton really put the Blackhawks groups through a hard day on the ice, maybe one of the harder days the players will see all camp long.
The first group hit the ice for a high-pace practice with a handful of what players call "disguised bag drills". These are not your typical post-practice conditioning drills, these are game-like situations where you are skating up, down and maybe back up the ice, all while defending a forward or trying to score against a defenseman. These drills are brutal on the legs and brutal on the lungs. Day Two was FULL of these drills. These types of drills will be a theme, though, because this team wants to be a fast, in-your-face team and the best way to achieve that is to make sure your entire team is in better shape than the opponent. After about 30 minutes of those high-tempo, disguised bag drills, Group A moved into an intrasquad scrimmage and then finished with some traiditonal on ice laps for conditioning. Boy, I do not miss playing in Training Camp!