Anthony Beauvillier of the Islanders skates against the Buffalo Sabres at NYCB Live on Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019. Credit: Jim McIsaac
Anthony Beauvillier is only 22 and presumably in better shape than you or me, but he had an exhausting day at the office on Saturday.
Fifteen minutes after punching out from his final shift he still was breathing so hard he struggled to speak.
Was this sort of thing unusual for him? “Yeah, yeah it is,” the Islanders winger said. “I usually recover really fast. I just had a tough time today.”
He said he “kind of felt heavy” and that “it seemed I couldn’t really find my breath,” citing the 1 p.