What it’s like to go on the ice with the ever-positive assistant coach
by Jeffrey Svoboda @JacketsInsider / BlueJackets.com
As I stood in front of one of the nets in the OhioHealth Ice Haus, Kenny McCudden lined up three pucks about 25 feet out from the top of the crease.
I had already waved badly at nine shots fired at the net by the Blue Jackets assistant coach, an 0-for-9 showing that would have struck me out of an entire inning of baseball.
As McCudden got ready to take three more shots during our drill of tipping pucks in front of the net past an imaginary goalie, he laughed and had a warning.
“You miss all three of these,” he said, “you have to skate.” MORE…
