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Team skipping practice amid hectic schedule
As a young lad playing minor hockey in Winnipeg, I recall a coach whose bag of tricks to shake us out of a slumber contained exactly one item: The dreaded bag skate.
It was his answer to everything. Looking back, the number of times we practiced without pucks and did lap after endless lap probably speaks to the effectiveness of his approach.
I was thinking about that coach the other day after watching the Winnipeg Jets sleepwalk through another game, this time a 4-3 overtime loss Saturday night against the Ottawa Senators.