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TORONTO  Marlies training camp began with a thud for Nazem Kadri. Ray
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on serious production, Kadri kicked off his third season in the American Hockey
League with underwhelming results, notably a lacking physical fitness. “His body
fat today is probably in the bottom three to five guys in our whole camp and
thats unacceptable,” said Marlies head coach Dallas Eakins. “Thats the easiest
part of coming into camp is eating correctly and training correctly. “Theres
just no coming off if youre an athlete,” Eakins continued. “Its no different
than the normal person. You make your choice. You can either go sit on the
couch, put your feet up and have a bag of potato chips or you can go on the
couch and put your feet up and grab some carrots and some apples.” The seventh
overall pick in the 2009 Draft, Kadri boasted of an offseason spent training
under the direction of famed fitness guru and former NHL player Gary Roberts,
noting a discernable shift in both training and eating habits. But after the
opening days of camp, the stinging results rung louder than the talk. “It
definitely maybe couldve been a little better,” said Kadri of the disappointing
body fat results, “but its definitely not bad. I think the way Im carrying
myself out on the ice, I feel stronger, I think my wind is way better than it
was last year [and] I think that body fat did drop down from last year too.” An
admittedly “picky eater” Kadri spoke of adjustments to his diet in concert with
Roberts, adding unfavourable foods such as squash, quinoa rice and spinach.
“There was a huge adjustment,” he said. “Thats why I did drop [the body fat] a
little bit. Maybe I couldve dropped it a little more, but for the most part Im
happy with where I am, Im happy with how I feel on the ice, Im happy with my
conditioning and my endurance. My lower-body feels strong and I honestly I just
cant wait to translate that to a game-form.” In addition to the off-ice testing,
Kadri also underwent a series of on-ice tests designed to measure physical
fitness, producing “average” results in general, lagging far behind heat-mates
Jerry DAmigo and Nicolas Deschamps, both superior skaters to that of Kadri.
Eakins stressed that the 21-year-old was not unlike many young players in
regards to his questionable eating habits, but with such lofty expectations –
including a self-proclaimed readiness for the NHL – the results were an obvious
misfire. “It takes time,” said Eakins calmly. “It takes time. Youll see guys,
theyre young, theyre still kind of in the junk-food mode and theyll eat wherever
they can. And then theres other guys as they mature they understand the
importance of their nutrition and the fuel that theyre putting in their machines
which is their bodies – and they get it. And that will come.  ”And its not
just Nazem Kadri. Its almost every one of our young players. You come out of
junior and when you get on that bus, youre grabbing Snicker bars and whatever
and your mom and dad arent looking over your shoulder any more. But if youre
going to be a professional athlete youre a professional athlete. Youre no
different than those Canadian Olympic members, any of those people. You have to
look after what youre putting in your body. And its like I tell them all the
time, You can put the high-octane gas in your car and it will go great. Now if
you go urinate in your tank your car is not going very far. So its the same with
your body, you put good fuel in youre going to go further, you put junk in,
youre done.” Kadri produced a solid if unspectacular season a year ago, totaling
40 points in 48 regular season games, before adding 10 points in 11 playoff
games. Expectations have been sky-high for the London native since his draft
year in 2009, but the necessary dominance and finely crafted professionalism
required to succeed at the NHL level has not been evident enough in the AHL on a
consistent basis. “Im still a young guy,” he concluded. “Im slowly learning how
to be a pro and what types of food to put into my body, but its not like youre
all going to get it in a couple months, youre going to start to figure it out,
youll gradually get the hang of it as you go.” Ray
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