How Morgan Geekie defied goal-scoring regression

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Boston Bruins forward Morgan Geekie can finish a Rubik's Cube in under a minute.

"I mean, right now I'd be pretty rusty," he said. "I'm not insane, like those kids that you see on TV, but I'm pretty good at them."

When Geekie was around 10 years old, a cousin taught him how to speed solve the puzzle. While some have never found a way to line up that mosaic of colors despite years of trying, Geekie said it's doable once one cracks the code. One summer at their lake cottage, his cousin wrote down its patterns. Geekie spent two weeks memorizing them and working out solutions while fiddling with the cube.

"It's basically just all algorithms. You just do the same moves all the…