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Stop Pushing So Hard. Why Dahlin and Kucherov Never Go Full Speed | The Train 2.0 Show
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Daniel Broberg has spent two summers on the ice training Rasmus Dahlin, and the first thing he will tell you is that the best skaters in the world almost never go full speed. On this episode of The Train 2.0 Show, Kevin McKinnon sits down with the founder of DB Hockey Factory to get into the philosophy behind "find the balance, find the glide, with smooth power": the one body part Daniel cues before anything else, why 97% of his drills keep the puck on the stick, and what happens to strong 15 and 16 year olds the moment they start pushing too hard.
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