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Practice Makes Better

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Practice Makes Better In the middle of the 2003-04 season, I went to a Rangers' practice to speak to a few players about a story that I was working on. As that practice unfolded, I couldn't believe my eyes. The Rangers, then coached by team president/general manager Glen Sather, did minutes and minutes of 2-on-0 and 3-on-1 drills. The players drifted through the "drills" with very little effort or intensity. As the time passed, I went around to the various beat writers with one question: Is i ...

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