Girls Hockey: Couture’s second year hopes for more wins

BRAINERD — Gary the fish died. Enter Cheeto. The high work ethic and long hours remain as Tony Couture begins his second year as the head coach of the Brainerd/Little Falls Warriors. Last season, BLF finished 10-14-2 overall and 6-6-1 in the Central Lakes Conference. Both the conference and section should be just as stacked this season. “The longer practices, I don’t think they mind them,” Couture said. “We go from 4 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. It’s been a little bit of an adjustment for some of the girls. I know it’s a huge adjustment for our younger girls who are moving up to high school. They only practiced for an hour a day and sometimes not even every day. “It can be long. We do special teams every day. We do conditioning every day. We do a lot of flow drills. A lot of the other stuff that we have is all locker room stuff. We updated the locker room last year. We got a fish last year, which died. Gary died. Now we have Cheeto the fish. It’s just a fun atmosphere.

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