[Jay Random]

I’m wondering if Huberdeau’s flubbed passes have to do with a slight decline in his reflexes. Passes that were tape-to-tape a couple of years ago end up a fraction of a second too slow, and he hasn’t figured out how to compensate.

I became particularly aware of this stuff after I had a very minor stroke some years ago. No lasting ill effects, thank God, but the last two fingers of my right hand became noticeably slower all at once. I had to relearn how to type, because my fingers were typing the letters in the wrong order. These days I hardly even use my right pinky when typing. For a hockey player who depends on split-second timing, the normal course of aging can be devastating if he doesn’t learn to adjust.