Ben Kuzma: Canucks' Beagle buoyed by schedule progress, acquisition of Holtby, Schmidt
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"It’s hard to wrap your head around it because we’re all waiting. It’s definitely weird. You start ramping things up and it gets pushed back. And you can’t keep bag-skating yourself for the whole summer." Jay Beagle is calling on his antiquated cellphone and the call display at the other end reads “Boise, Idaho.”
However, there is no urgency for Beagle to pack and get across the international border. He was dialling from his off-season home in Calgary and that call-display notification has everything to do with being technology challenged.
If I could talk face to face right now, I’d rather fly in and talk to you like that.
What Beagle does know at age 35 and being off for four months is that training camp will demand Day 1 tempo.
An all-Canadian division is going to be different, but being in that (Edmonton) bubble and going on that run was incredible.
He’s a competitor, but he likes to have fun and is really going to fit in to our group,” said Beagle.
However, there is no urgency for Beagle to pack and get across the international border. He was dialling from his off-season home in Calgary and that call-display notification has everything to do with being technology challenged.
If I could talk face to face right now, I’d rather fly in and talk to you like that.
What Beagle does know at age 35 and being off for four months is that training camp will demand Day 1 tempo.
An all-Canadian division is going to be different, but being in that (Edmonton) bubble and going on that run was incredible.
He’s a competitor, but he likes to have fun and is really going to fit in to our group,” said Beagle.