Gentlemen, start your engines.
Avalanche coaches and trainers are looking at their players like fine-tuned racecars.
Jared Bednar and Casey Bond’s jobs used to involve a lot of guesswork. If a player was dogging in practice, maybe they stayed up too late last night, maybe they weren’t eating right or maybe they were just having an off day. Now, it’s easy to know when they need to say, “son, you’re not getting enough rest.”
For the third consecutive year, heart-rate monitors are being worn across the chest of every Avalanche player and minor-league prospect at every practice or morning skate.