This week, hundreds of hockey players will undergo rigorous tests and measurements so their respective teams can get a good feeling at where their players are at coming into training camp.
That includes weight testing, and for specific players around the NHL, that means making sure they're under a certain required weight that their team told them to be under during their exit meetings or when they checked in with a trainer during the offseason.
Former Maple Leafs defenceman, and now co-host of TSN 1050's Morning Show "First Up" with former Off The Record host Michael Landsberg, Carlo Colaiacovo, told a hilarious story on the show on Tuesday about Ian White trying to cut weight before camp one year.
We've heard of UFC fighters cutting weight with garbage bags on a bike inside a sauna before, but sleeping in garbage bags to sweat during your sleep? Now that's intense.
Whatever you have to do to stay out of the coaches' doghouse to start the season, make sure you go all out. If that includes using a garbage bag as a sweat sheet at night, then so be it. We're not sure what year it was, but the head coaches during Colaiacovo and White tenure together were the late Pat Quinn and Paul Maurice, two coaches that would've had no problem giving it to their players.
You can bet Carlo and Ian sure doesn't miss doing physicals and fitness testing.
