Inside the NHL’s Surprising Shift: Why Top Players Are Ditching Beer for Better Sleep—and What It Means for the Game
Seeking an edge
The first two years Mark Kastelic was eligible to be drafted, not one NHL team was interested. It was only in 2019, after he recorded a team-leading 77 points and 122 penalty minutes for the WHL’s Calgary Hitmen, that the Ottawa Senators took Kastelic in the fifth round.
Kastelic, now 26, has since become a fourth-line Boston Bruins forward. He’s done so by chasing marginal gains in saunas, ice baths and hyperbaric chambers. They’ve helped the 6-foot-4, 227-pounder optimize his time in the gym. Physicality is Kastelic’s calling card.
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