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Re: Hockey questions
From: (Anonymous)A typical practice day for the Caps is that most players are at the rink by 8 or 8:30 for a 10 or 10:30 am practice. (On-ice practice can start anywhere from 10 to 11:30 depending on the team's travel and game schedule.) An hour is the maximum the on-ice portion usually lasts, with different coaches having different preferences for the length of practice and what gets covered.
Generally, though, goalies come out about 15-20 minutes before the official practice start time and work with the goalie coach. Players start trickling onto the ice, stretching, and warming up about 10 minutes before official start time. By the official start time, they're all skating counter-clockwise in a big loop to warm up.
The coaches then start drills, usually loose shooting drills first, then 3-on-3s or similar drills. All players take part, usually divided into two or four groups to work the full rink, and almost always in their line combos. The Caps used to have designated line practice jersey colors (red: line 1, gray: line 2, green: line 3, white: line 4 and extras who rotate in), but Trotz seems to prefer half red and half white so that he can mix things up. Defense wear black practice jerseys. The goalies wear red.
There is often special teams practice with the top two PP units facing the top two PK units. The Caps seldom do shootout practice--almost never under all four coaches whose practices I've witnessed. The formal bit of practice ends after about 15 minutes, which is usually when Ovechkin leaves the ice (he's usually one of the first guys on the ice, and is almost always the first guy off). Most of the other guys will stay on the ice practicing face-offs, one-timers, general shooting. The goalie coach will usually take a few 4th liners to help him practice with the goalies, especially the backup but usually the starter a bit, too.
The Caps used to have a game they played near the end of every practice, called "Juice Boy." They would set up two sticks across the top corners of the net. Each of the guys who were playing (often bottom sixers, but some second-liners, too) would take turns trying to shoot the puck into one of the corners. The last guy to make it became "juice boy" and had to fetch gatorade for all the other guys.
At the end of practice, guys who are rehabbing may stay out longer, as may guys who haven't played a lot: 13th Fs and 7th D. Eventually, only a couple rookies are left to pick up the pucks.
After practice, it takes the guys anywhere from an hour to 3 hours to leave the rink. More since the Caps started providing lunch in house (they always provided breakfast). Waiting around for autographs after practice has become more tedious with this development. :)
If it is a travel day, the guys will leave the rink within about an hour to go home and change, pack, drive to the airport.
On the very rare occasions I saw bag skates, they didn't last any longer, just what the guys did was different--a ton of skating: herbies, wind sprints, etc., not so much puck handling (hence, the term "bag skate," the pucks stay in the bag).
Re: Hockey questions
From: (Anonymous)I was a bit distracted in the middle of writing this, and I don't know what I meant by: "The formal bit of practice ends after about 15 minutes, which is usually when Ovechkin leaves the ice (he's usually one of the first guys on the ice, and is almost always the first guy off)."
Formal practice starts to wind down after about 30-45 minutes, is what I meant to say. Ovi usually leaves the ice after about 40 to 45 minutes. Other guys stay on for closer to an hour, but they trickle off generally in a "top line down" sort of way.
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From: (Anonymous)As a reader, I understand and don't mind judicious handwaving, but a fic is immeasurably improved by extra bits of realism sprinkled throughout. I am pleased to assist!