They're a staple of training camp. Most hockey practices, in fact.
The mind-numbing, tedious, seemingly endless on-ice drills: breakouts, three-on-twos, two-on-ones, power-play and short-handed situations, and...
Tedious? Not for Winnipeg Jets assistant coach Charlie Huddy, whose eyes light up when he talks about them. You could say drills are the bread and butter of his workday.
Huddy, along with the other members of the club's coaching staff, invest a good chunk of their prep time creating new drills or modifying old ones for future workouts.