No, it wasn’t a bag skate, where players practice without pucks and hold skating drills to near exhaustion. But the Pittsburgh Penguins’ practice on Thursday was considerably more physical than usual, ...

Conditioning skates, wind sprints, whammies, two-and-a-halfs, bag skates — many names for the basic, infamous drill where one goes up and down the ice at high speed. A quick break to fill the lungs, ...

In each episode, a rising star NHL player will perform a skill on the ice and demonstrate an off-ice exercise related to the ...