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Originally Posted by Flamescuprun2018
You are right. That's the one. First full time female NHL coach.
Braid also spent seven years with the Athletes Training Center as director of skating development. Among the skaters she worked with while there is New York Islanders center John Tavares.
From NHL.com:
“Dawn has wanted to put me in to make myself a more powerful and efficient skater,” Tavares told NHL.com in 2012. “Dawn always says, ‘If you didn’t train properly and do the certain things you need to do, you’re not going to be strong enough to do the things I want you to do.'”
Source: http://nhl.nbcsports.com/2016/08/24/...n-nhl-history/ |
I think female coaches (and figure skating coaches) can often help male skaters make their skating more quiet and efficient, which greatly helps their speed. Male skaters have a tendency to try to do it all with power rather than focusing on their technique, resulting in a lot of wasted effort, and more fatigue with less speed.