At the combine, more than 100 draft-eligible hockey players from around the world will be taped, stretched, clamped, weighed, tested and analyzed to determine their draft worthiness.
The V02 max test measures oxygen efficiency and a person's aerobic capacity. Dumoulin said the bike test will be one of the most grueling tests at the combine.
"You have a 10-minute break in between bike tests and then you jump on another bike for the V02 test," said Dumoulin, who will play at Boston College in the fall. "You pedal and pedal, and it's awful. I've heard about guys passing out, or throwing up or dry heaving after it. It goes for 10 to 12 minutes and you can't stop."
Here's a closer look at last year's NHL combine in Ottawa.
Here's another tidbit - Dumoulin and other college prospects can spend no more than 48 hours at the combine in order to maintain their amateur status. And while combine participants are given a hat, t-shirt and shorts to wear during the combine, they must pay a nominal fee for them. Otherwise, it would be considered a gift, a no-no by NCAA standards.
Rachel is in her fifth year as a sports reporter at the Portland Press
Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram. A former college soccer and softball player,
she covered sports at newspapers in Pennsylvania, Texas and Colorado before
joining the Press Herald/Sunday Telegram staff in June of 2004.
Rachel takes over coverage of the University of Maine hockey team and was
introduced to Maine hockey as a seventh-grader in Annapolis, Maryland, after
reading a 1988 Sports Illustrated story about Shawn Walsh's impact on the
program. Nearly 20 years later, she still has the four-page article in her
possession.
She and her husband, Tommy (who also works for MaineToday Media, Inc.)
are avid sports fans who root for the Pittsburgh Steelers, Pittsburgh
Penguins and Kansas Jayhawks. After a year of marriage, their next step in
life is to find a bigger house!
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