The skating laps were back, kind of, at Flyers training camp today, and Mafay Mishkov shines on day two.

I'm Charlie O'Connor, the PHLY Flyers and PHLY Sports, and these are your Flyers post-practice notes.

Now, as many Flyers fans probably remember, the first day of a John Tourdorella training camp was known for the infamous rope skate, that devastatingly exhausting

test that all Flyers players would have to go through in order to prove to John Torterlla that

they had a good summer and that they were ready to go for camp. Now, on day one yesterday, a Rick Tocke

coach training camp did not include an endurance skate or a skate test.

It was work on systems.

It was normal drills.

On day two, there was a little bit of a comeback of the skate test.

Now, to be clear, there was no rope and it was significantly easier, far fewer laps than under John Turdrell.

But the players were going pretty hard.

Tocke clearly wants them to show number one that they're in shape, but also just to end practice, because it was the end of

sets of drills, just to end practice on a little bit of an exercise note. Now, I would say the players

handled this abridged version of the skate without a rope, the endurance skate, handled it a lot better.

You didn't see people heaving.

You didn't see people laying down exhausted on the ice like he did on day one of a torts camp.

But I'm sure it was difficult.

I'm sure that the guys were struggling because it's not easy to do that many laps in a row at top speed.

One guy, whoever, who stood out in a very positive way with regards to how he performed in the endurance skate, one Matveh Mishkoff, and Rick Tockett after the practice, had a lot of praise for Mishkoff and his work during the laps. You know, for me, he's just got to keep stacking the good stuff together. You know, we had to skate at the end, and he led the pack.

I like that. You know, he took it, and I got to admit, you know, he had three hard, like, three hard laps. Like, he didn't, I don't want guys to pace themselves, and he didn't pace themselves. So that's a start for me. Now, this is interesting on a number of levels. It's number one because it's Maffaff, and everybody wants to hear good things about Maffa Mishkoff, but also because I remember last year watching him try to do his first and now only attempt at the Tordorella Ropes skate, and he struggled. He was definitely struggling to get through that. Looks like this year, look, it was easier. not as many laps, not as difficult. But it looks like Mafay Mishkov may have been one of the better players at this particular version of the skate test. There's also the fact that, honestly, endurance was a bit of an issue for Mishkov all of last year. As impressive as he was on the ice, there certainly were times at the end of shifts where he looked gassed. The second games of back-to-backs, he didn't necessarily have the same

legs, which is understandable. It's not that he was out of shape. It was just that it was his first

year in the NHL. He was a teenager for half the season, didn't really know fully how he had to prepare

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