I'm Hey, everybody, how you doing?

Well, that's good. Welcome to PHLY Flyers. My name is Bill

Matt's. I'm your director, Funning Games, on this very first day of training camp, at least the

on-ice portion. And joining me today, straight from beautiful Vorhees, New Jersey, it is Philadelphia's

number one hockey beat writer charlie o'connor

how was the first day of school chuck it wasn't bad it was uh early morning earlier than usual

this this starts around 830 whereas usually practices start around 1030 at the earliest so this is

always an early start and it's a long day. And now we got the show.

But you know what? I'm amped up. I'm ready to talk some Flyers hockey, so let's do it.

Did they get you out there to do the skate? Thankfully, no. They didn't make the media do it.

If they did, I would not be here. I would probably be in the hospital. Well, that's the first thing I want to ask, because this came up a couple of times today

for people who've never been to the training camp, especially a John Tortorello training camp.

Right.

What exactly is the, as we found out the name of it yesterday, other than like torture test,

the three by eight lap 300 shuttle.

What exactly goes on in this drill?

Well, so I broke it down in my post practice notice video that's going to be coming out in a couple hours. Keep an eye out for that on our YouTube channel. But in short, essentially what they do is

Torts has a rope. This is where the rope thing comes rope thing the rope the rope he has had for decades

and they more or less have hooks at the end of each rope and they put the they they extend the rope

out you know lengthwise in the middle of the ice and they hook into two nets and then the players

have to skate around the two nets almost in as if you're like going around a NASCAR track, like in an oval.

And the way they do it is there will be a group of about five guys and they'll do three laps around the nets.

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