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Originally Posted by Fischy13
Blows my mind a professional athlete can't throw a ball. I remember years ago, Brent Sutter commenting on hockey players these days can't throw a ball, swing a bat, shoot a hoop because they played hockey 365 days a year. He went on about how important it was for their hockey skills to play other sports and develop different muscles that made them better hockey players. I've kept an eye on this since reading that article and am dumfounded every time I see it happening. Wild.
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I think he is wrong, though. This was probably sound thinking more than a decade or two ago, but the only way kids are getting to the NHL in this day and age is by total, year-round, undivided commitment.
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