‘”I think every summer you go in and you try to evaluate where you’re at and how you can get back to baseline after a long season,” Skinner said following Saturday’s practice at training camp. “This offseason, we had quite a bit of time. So once you get the chance to realize that, you could start to, with an indefinite timeline and a lot of uncertainty, start rebuilding and working on strengths and weaknesses in the gym. How that translates, how you can best translate that to on-ice skills, and fortunately I think in Toronto I had a decent set up and was able to skate quite a bit. I think it’s probably my 10th or 11th offseason in the NHL, and every year you try and take what you’ve learned from the past seasons, what’s worked for you, what you may want to tweak and how’re your feeling in different situations and different games, how your body broke down and how your body didn’t break down. It’s a whole bunch of things. I think you have the people you work with in the offseason… it’s a team effort to try and get you to your peak come training camp.”‘
Skinner hoping for bounce back 2020-21 season in Buffalo
Source: WGR-AM