2.<\/p>\n
I’ve watched enough warmups over the years that, at any given moment, I can pretty much tell you where to look for a specific player, and they’ll be doing something very specific.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Whether its the waterbottle cheers at the bench between Jesper Bratt and Nico Hischier, or Timo Meier taking a moment to chill, leaning on the boards by the bench, always looking towards the opposing team, or the part of Dougie Hamilton’s routine where he bounces a puck off his stick 19 times (yes, I’ve counted many, many times) before the final bounce is lobbed off his skate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spend enough time around these guys, and you’ll begin to learn all their little intricacies.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Everyone has their routines. Certain shots they take, places they stand, teammates they interact with. It’s like choreography. I know when to look in certain areas of the ice because I know exactly what’s coming next.<\/p>\n
Which is why I’ve picked up on a new one from Evan Rodrigues (well, actually two, but one is more of a responsibility than a routine).<\/p>\n
Towards the mid-way mark of warmups, Rodrigues makes his way toward the corner to the right of the net and tries to shoot a puck directly into the closed photographer’s hole.<\/p>\n
And we’re talking about a target that’s basically puck-sized.<\/p>\n
It’s not exactly an easy shot, but Rodrigues keeps taking his crack at it until he gets it just right.<\/p>\n
Just another tiny routine added to the warmup checklist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2. I’ve watched enough warmups over the years that, at any given moment, I can pretty much tell…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5109],"tags":[201,5,576,151,5185,5184,4],"class_list":["post-681196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-jersey-devils","tag-devils","tag-hockey","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-jersey-devils","tag-newjersey","tag-newjerseydevils","tag-nhl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/117401478969033015","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}