Three Truths and a Lie - JUN.24.08
Entry posted by Cory Schneider
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<table align="center" border="0" width="80%"><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload//2008/06/cory_blog.jpg" align="left" border="0" hspace="4" vspace="1">First of all, thanks to everyone for the comments on the yesterday's entry. This whole thing is still very new to me. I did notice an interesting question though, someone asked if Cory was short for something and funny, because I've even asked my parents and it's not short for anything at least not that I know about. But very interesting question.
Yesterday, we went to UBC to do some team building exercises and so all the guys here get to know each other a little better. It gets us to loosen up a little bit and be comfortable talking in front of everyone else, I guess doing ridiculous stuff gets people comfortable with one another. We started with intros and three truths and a lie – we have to say three things that are true and one thing that's not true about ourselves. Can you guess?
I play the guitar.
I grew up in Boston.
I have an older sister.
I'm a finance major in school.
<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload//2008/06/jun2408_schneider_t.jpg" align="right" border="0" hspace="4" vspace="1">The lie is I don't have a sister, I have an older brother – it's kind of discreet but I think someone guessed it right.
Then we split up into groups and we reenacted scenes from a movie. My group did one from Dumb and Dumber, which people guessed right away but they let us finish the scene any way. I never really got into theatre, I'm not much of an actor but I guess when you're around your teammates and friends, it's not too bad and it's easier to voluntarily make a fool of yourself. I think Juraj Simek's group was the best one and he stood out as the most memorable actor for sure. His group acted out Gladiator and he just ran around cutting people up with a sword – there were no words, he just cut his teammates in half. He could possibly have another career is he gets his English down, I think he could have something there.
Something light before we did something intense.
<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload//2008/06/jun2408_scheider2_t.jpg" align="left" border="0" hspace="4" vspace="1">We had testing at UBC, where we go through the same battery of tests that we do during training camp. I think it went pretty well but the area I always struggle with in the past was the bike test. Hopefully I improve on my numbers but at the same time you're kind of early in your training for the summer and there's still a lot of summer left before training camp so guys aren't in peak physical condition. I think this will give me a good bearing as to where I need to go for the rest of the summer. The bike tests are the worst though because you're just strapped in with a tube in your mouth and you feel suffocated almost. They pinch your nose because they don't want you to breathe through your mouth and the tube analyses the air coming out of your mouth so they can analyze how much oxygen you're using and all that kind of stuff. I don't know the exact science of it but it's pretty confining. I'm sure you've seen the pictures and it is just as awkward as it looks.
<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload//2008/06/jun2408_templar_t.jpg" align="right" border="0" hspace="4" vspace="1">After that, we all headed back to the hotel and went to dinner with a bunch of the guys. I think I probably crawled into bed around 7, watched TV, read some of my book and fell asleep at around ten. Right now I'm reading The Last Templar by Raymond Koury. I just picked it up at the airport on the way out here – it's kind of a Da Vinci Code knockoff, a religious mystery, that kind of thing, it's pretty good so far. I'm pretty far into it, actually I'm almost finished, I can't really put it down right now. I generally like to read, especially on the road trips I read a lot to pass time. I'm the kind of guy where I don't read books all the time but when I get into one I don't put it down until I finish it. I can just plow through a book in a day or two and then might not read again for another week.
<img src="http://cdn.nhl.com/canucks/images/upload//2008/06/prospects_t.jpg" align="left" border="0" hspace="4" vspace="1">The week's schedule is pretty crazy and it's packed from the time we get up until late afternoon and by then, we just want to go to bed so we can be ready to do it all again the next day. It's my fifth or sixth time in Vancouver now, from World Juniors and other camps but typically we stay pretty close to the hotels and Robson, just wandering up and down so there hasn't been a ton of time to sight see but I like it downtown near Robson Street. During World Juniors, I got to see Stanley Park a little bit and we did the Grind last year so I got to see the mountains. A friend of mine, who I played with at Boston College lives in Burnaby and I've been to his house a couple of times so I've had to chance to go out to the suburbs a little bit.
Honestly, if I had a choice, I do prefer downtown, there's a little more going on but if I were to get a house and live somewhere, the suburbs would be nice. I really like atmosphere of Robson Street with all the stores and restaurants, it's always busy. It's fun if there's nothing to do, just walking up and down the street, pop into a few stores, so it's a pretty neat area. Hopefully I'll make a trip here where I'll have some more time to explore more of the city, I love what I have seen so far so I can't wait to see more of it.</td></tr></tbody></table>
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