VOORHEES, N.J. -- Oliver Bonk knew getting stronger was a top offseason priority ahead of his first season of professional hockey.

The Philadelphia Flyers defenseman prospect said he put on 15 pounds of muscle, and is up to 200 pounds on his 6-foot-2 frame.

Training with the team's strength and conditioning coaches helped, he said. There also was a unique diet plan.

"I ate so much Jersey Mike's this summer, just the giant subs," Bonk said Thursday, the first day of rookie camp at Flyers Training Center. "I'll eat one not even as a meal, it'll be in between lunch and dinner. I'll have a 2,000-calorie sub, then I'll go for dinner. So that's how you do it.

"You just eat until you're sick. You work out and skate, but it's more about downing calories, as many as you can. Just non-stop ea

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