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Canucks subjected to scientific alertness testing
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08:21 AM ET 01.24 | Credit the Canucks for thinking outside the box -- if still inside the helmet. [For 10 minutes Monday, all forwards and defencemen wore heart monitors and were asked to skate half-speed.] If it was at full speed, maybe it would make sense to a layman, or a hockey journalist. But half speed? How did that simulate anything players do in a game? Luckily, Canuck alternate captain Kevin Bieksa seemed to understand exactly what was happening. "It was the sleep doctors wanting to see how alert we are in the morning," he explained. "Underneath our helmets, we had these pads on our heads. Apparently the [data] tells them how alert we are and how ready we are when we first step on the ice."
Kevin Bieksa, Getty Images
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thanks for the insight Dr Bieksa...
what a great story.
BrownsBucksBlueJacke…
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Lou Lou's proctologist called, <fill in the blank>
BrownsBucksBlueJacke…
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I am now dumber for reading this article.
Gary The Sox Fan
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By the way, Canucks suck!
Gary The Sox Fan
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Huh?
PensFanDealWithIt
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This thread has so much potential...
It's just chock full of potential...
Otis B. Driftwood
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This is an awesome article.
Nard Dog
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The "sleep doctors" ? Sounds more like the witch doctors.
Slapshot
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Where were these guys before game seven of the SCFs?
Canuck eh?
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I think we learned that the Canucks don't have any scientific alertness.
Burgh-Fan
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<Canucks subjected to scientific alertness testing>
Your Canadian health care sytem at work.
THE BISHOP!
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I can spell...just can't type.
THE BISHOP!
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It's called diverting attention away from the fact they save their best sleeps for Game 7s of Cup finals.
Hank Kingsley
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Did they get a reading on either Sedin? :)
Nobody expects…
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Defencemen at half speed, then full speed? What's the difference LOL
shiprock
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I agree with everything said in the first 15 comments...I would also like to add a Huh? and maybe a say what??
nfitzy
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Scientific alertness testing?
WTF!! What's going on in Vancouver? Do they get a full moon every two weeks?
roamer
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Shouldn't they have a Cardiologist checking them, not a head guy?
Nard Dog
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You have a problem with educated people, redneck?
cmh_phx
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"It was the sleep doctors wanting to see how alert we are in the morning,"
You want to find out how alert guys are? Line them up and fire pucks at them. If they get out of the way, they're alert.
Nobody expects…
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