Again I agree that it can push a team to draft one player over another but it certainly shouldn't and the results are there when you look at the guys who are workout warriors and shoot up the charts. Their record of translating to the ice is not very good and usually on par with what they showed on the ice and not in the weight room.
As for the push-up thing. I have no knowledge of working out or push-ups but considering these are some of the top athletes in the world for their age group and have some well paid training people working with them during their junior careers and once they are done I have to doubt that it is easy to crank out 50 when nobody has ever done (as far as I have heard.) I am not sure if they don't waste time training for it since there are obviously much more important things to work on or if your easily get 50 theory is crazy but it does seem doubtful that it is that easy or someone would have done it before.
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