Lots of calories.
Folks: it’s Monday.
Hopefully you had yourself a good weekend, and hopefully the upcoming week will be a good one for you.
Land that promotion, hit the lottery, sign Jeremy Swayman’s new contract, etc.
Things remain quiet on the Bruins front, but here are a few quick hits in case you missed them:
- The B’s signed defensemen Michael Callahan and Alec Regula to one-year, two-way contracts. Both featured heavily in Providence last season (70 and 55 games, respectively) and will serve as blue line depth.
- 2022 fourth-round pick Cole Spicer is stepping away from hockey “for the foreseeable future,” via Boston.com and per an interview with the Duluth News Tribune. He cited personal and mental reasons, so hopefully the kid gets the support he needs.
- Oskar Steen is headed home after he signed a deal with Farjestad.
- The Providence Bruins released their 2024-2025 schedule. They’ll begin the season with a home game against the Laval Rocket on Friday, October 11.
Lastly, I don’t want to pull giant excerpts from it out of respect for it being a subscription service, but Fluto Shinzawa had a fascinating piece in The Athletic last week where he discussed the outrageous diet of the average NHL prospect.
Fluto found that a prospect like recent draft pick Jonathan Morello eats a whopping 4,500 calories per day — something that seems like it’d be hard to do, even with the support of a nutritionist/dietitian.
The expert recommendation was a 500-calorie smoothie/protein shake before bed, which…yeah. Doesn’t exactly sound the recipe for sweet dreams, but I’m also not trying to gain 20 pounds of muscle.
(Remarkably, it’s easy to gain weight without trying once time catches up with you.)
Lastly, Larry Brooks of the New York Post opines that the NHL’s offseason (and regular season, too) schedule is too compressed and bound by arbitrary deadlines.
Your thoughts on what the ideal in-season and offseason schedule would look like?
I’d say they should aim to have the playoffs over by start of June, but I also have no idea how that would work.
What’s on tap for today?