ZOMG wrote:We all know that offseason workout videos and/or interviews are often nothing but useless fluff, edited to show a player in the best possible light.
However...
I can't seem to shake the nagging feeling that we should've heard or seen something from Lauri this summer. He's literally given zero hints that he's actually been working hard to eliminate the specific holes in his game. While nobody forces him to keep the fanbase up to date on these things, it does speak of a lack of urgency by him regarding his development as a player.
Lauri is simply not at a level where he can spend the offseason chilling with friends and family, campaigning against climate change and building even more mass in the weight room (something we HAVE seem him doing, unfortunately). This should be the time where he's really laying the foundation for his next big contract. If he comes to training camp with a game identical to last season, I'm going to be shocked and disappointed.
That means the team is either giving him bad advice or he's not taking the right advice seriously enough.
Here's the million dollar question... Is Lauri really hungry? I'd like nothing more than to confidently be able to say "of course he is".
But I just can't.
Don't buy into the media and social media hype.
If you see videos online showing workouts, doesn't mean they are actually working out hard. And when you don't see anything, it doesn't mean it isn't happening behind closed doors.
That said, I've seen posts of him working out abroad, and recently of him at the Advocate Centre along with some of the younger players. So there is that.
- is he Hans or Franz? I forget which teams did they play for?
