bag skate n. in hockey, a team practice made of repetitive, strenuous skating drills and sprints, usually without pucks. Also as a verb. Sometimes they’re called suicides, “Herbies”, or mountain climbing (among other unprintable names). Loved by coaches and hated by players, the actual value of them is much disputed . Whatever the real value, they certainly get a team’s attention, one way or another. You will probably recognize them best from this scene in the movie “Miracle”… In the military, we called it ‘cycling’…

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