Nichol likened the weight room to a dungeon, but it has been sufficient for Edmonton’s Connor McDavid, a league most valuable player and scoring champion. There, a year earlier, Binnington had befriended Andy Chiodo, a goalie whose professional career was concluding and whose work ethic he had come to admire. With his career teetering, Binnington confided in Chiodo, by then a goalie coach for Nichol, a desire to improve his discipline and lifestyle habits. “That summer was really powerful,” Chiodo, now the Penguins’ goalie development coach, said in an interview last week. captains and Cup winners, he learned critical differences: between training and exercising, eating and fueling, practicing and preparing with intent.

Source: New York Times May 28, 2019 12:12 UTC