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Originally Posted by MissTeeks
Rich Hesketh has been with the team since 1995. I think if his fitness programs were no good, they would have fired him by now.
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There are a couple of things that worry me about this.
1) With having a guy who's been around since 1995, I think that there is a small danger that even if he's not doing his job better than at the very least 50% of the nhl (we should be wanting the best of the best, a guy who is just ok isn't good enough), people won't question his performance due to his reputation as a guy who has been doing this so long.
If he is doing his job well then this point is moot, but then again, where are the results?
2) Training has changed drastically over the 18 years he has been on duty; has this guy kept up with the state-of-the-art?
3) If this guy is doing well and does have the know how to be an nhl strength trainer for a stanley cup winning team, is our coaching staff giving this guy enough access to our players for him to get the results he wants?
I just think that going into a rebuild, we need to be asking questions like this, rather than running the risk of looking back in three years saying "huh, we should have put more thought into this three years ago."