"First of all, there's a lot of players," he said. "Secondly, the guys are just getting back into every day ice time and pushing themselves hard with two intra-squad games per day. There's lots of guys with bumps and bruises. It's not major injuries, just day-to-day stuff.
"You try to do the best you can to manage things at this time of the year. You want to take care of injuries now so they don't linger and bother the guys during the season."
Black is also co-owner of the Max Health Institute in Dieppe.
"We'll put all the players through fitness testing on Monday just to get a gauge of where everybody is right now," he said. "It gives us another perspective when we do off-ice testing. It's also a base line to see high we can bring them throughout the season. "It used to be that players came to training camp to get in shape. Things have evolved over the years and now they have to be in shape when the get here for camp. Pretty much all of these guys have their own personal trainer in the off-season.""
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