It strikes me as funny because that is exactly how Charlie told me the Russians trained. Look a lot like high intensity short exposure training. I think 90% of what I see is off base in hockey training. Running miles to play a game that is high speed stop and go with a lot of rest seems out of place. I agree about kid’s just wanting to scrimmage. Very few kid’s work on their fundamentals anymore. I have kid’s who drill them endlessly and others who wouldn’t lift a finger unless their parents were paying me to train them. One kid was an 87 with all the tools to play pro hockey. He didn’t make it because he was lazy. He just told me it tears him up seeing Jordan Stahl and those guys playing in the NHL. He agreed that he was not mature enough to push himself. I get him 3 hours per week. Thay leaves 165 hours for him to do the proper things. I see far too many kids that don’t get better because all they work on is playing. Practicing fundamentals isn’t sexy, but champions they do make.