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Originally Posted by Hockey-and_stuff

Maybe I missed something but why are we suddenly throwing up ideas that Morin is not fit or has bad habits?

Has had issues with off-ice training in the past

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tough-conv...160519191.html

Sometime last September, before he was among the earliest cuts at Calgary Flames training camp, Etienne Morin had a heart-to-heart chat with team staff.

It was a word of warning: If you don’t dig into your off-ice training, you’re not going to achieve your NHL dream.

A tough conversation, but a potential turning point for the talented second-round draft pick in 2023, who should be the most promising prospect on the left side of the Flames’ blue line.

“It was a lesson for me,” Morin said. “It got put for me to learn from it. I didn’t sleep good that night, I’m going to be honest. But I’d rather for it to happen last year than this year, coming into my first pro year.

“I still have the data in the back of my head that I got told and, ever since, I’ve focused a lot of myself and a lot on what I’ve been eating, my sleep, just the pro habits. I think I’ve improved so much.”

While you never would have eye-balled Morin and accused him of being out of shape, his testing scores heading into last season didn’t show the sort of progress that was expected. If the NHL is your aim, you can’t plateau before you turn pro.