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Blackhawks teach their prospects how to eat smarter to get them to NHL faster

CHICAGO - The cup of yogurt looked, well, risky.

A minute earlier, one of the Blackhawks chefs had dropped some chia seeds - which he described as a "superfood" - into the yogurt and passed them around to the Hawks prospects standing in front of him. Some fruit was added to help with the taste.

Michal Teply took a nibble, then turned to Kirby Dach, who had also just downed his first taste.

"Do you like it?" Teply asked Dach.

Without answering, Dach shot back: "Do you?"

Looking at Dach, Teply shook his head with the disdain of a kid whose parents had just forced him to eat something new.

The other players in the group - Brandon Hagel, Philipp Kurashev and Reese Johnson - gobbled up the concoction without any problems.

"We don't ask you to go and buy every superfood at Whole Foods and incorporate it into your foods," one of the nutritionists told the

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