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Zohorna 'a step faster,' regains conditioning after long illness

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Radim Zohorna just wasn't physically able to play the way he wanted to last season.

He was sick in training camp. He didn't know what was ailing him at the time, and he's still not sure why he felt bad for so long.

All he knows is that it significantly impacted his season.

"I lost all my summer (training) last year because I was sick for three months," Zohorna told me this week of last season. "It was so hard, especially on my mind. Then in the season after New Year's, it wasn't bad.