RE: Kanzig's skating.
His acceleration isn't very good, but his long strides get him up to top speed quickly and he is quite fast.
The other day they were doing a drill where the player starts on a faceoff dot. Two pucks are placed at each of the four sides of the circles. They had to skate to each puck and touch it with their stick, returning to the faceoff dot before they went to the next one. With Kanzig's stride he blew every forward out of the water and he wasn't hunched over gasping for breath afterwards like everyone else.
The guy really is a freak physically. If he takes a similar path as Wotherspoon, it'll be ideal - where he starts out slow, makes several mistakes throughout the first couple of months, then really hits his stride and becomes one of the team's best shutdown guys. That'd be ideal.
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