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Making Long Jump Ropes
While I studied long ago in the old USSR, I found it interesting that their coaches used a lot of activities for training that we’d have defined as schoolyard or playground games her in the states. Perhaps what I found most interesting was the fact that we North Americans had abandoned many of those physical…
Read MoreEarly End to SJHL Season a Tough Blow For League’s 20-Year-Olds
The teams are disappointed, the players are upset and the fans are left waiting for more. The SJHL did what it could to save the 2021 season, but without proper approvals, the league’s elder statesmen are saying goodbye to their junior careers without a proper send-off. More…
Read MoreHow Sports Can Help Your Kids Outsmart Everyone Else
This article was inspired by a TIME article I’d read long ago, that written by Jon Wertheim and Tobias Moskowitz, and titled “How Sports Can Help Your Kids Outsmart Everyone Else” (I’ve linked that so you can read it for yourself). I probably like the subtitle even more, though, as in “The playing field provides the ideal…
Read MoreThe Hockey Skater’s Thrust and Shoulder Movements
Not everyone realizes there are discrepancies in the way various athletes move in a straight line, and it just so happens that there are also differences in the biomechnics applied in the three skating sports. It would be helpful for hockey coaches, parents and adult players to understand a few things — as they plan…
Read MoreNeed to Know: The All-American Prospects Game
One of the most helpful new NHL draft scouting events of the past decade has been the annual All-American Prospects Game and we now have rosters for the 2021 edition, which will be held at USA Hockey Arena in Michigan on April 7. More…
Read MoreGet Ready for the Prep Hockey Conference
The Prep Hockey Conference is launching for the 2021-22 season, bringing together six elite programs in North America: Shattuck-St. Mary’s School, St. Andrew’s College, Northwood School, Culver Academies, Mount St. Charles Academy and South Kent School. All six programs have developed NHLers and top-end NCAA players throughout their histories. More…
Read MoreMiracle On Ice Teammates Shocked, Devastated by Death of Mark Pavelich
A week after Pavelich was found dead at a treatment facility in Minnesota, the players who won the Olympic gold medal with him in 1980 are still searching for answers. More…
Read MoreHockey Folks Duped By Faulty Logic
I’m not sure where to begin with this one, but maybe it’s best to first explain what set me on fire… You see, I like to follow goings on in various hockey and other sport forums. And it was one such group having mainly to do with skate sharpening and pro shop operations that recently…
Read More‘Miracle’ hockey star Mark Pavelich found dead in treatment center
Text size share tweet email Print more Olympic “Miracle” hockey star and Iron Range sports legend Mark Pavelich was found dead Thursday in a central Minnesota residential treatment center, bringing to an end the life of a man who reached the pinnacle of international sport and hit the depths of legal and psychological distress. More…
Read MoreWalter Gretzky, father of hockey great Wayne Gretzky, dies at 82
Wayne Gretzky confirmed the death in a social media post, noting that his father had Parkinson’s disease and other health problems. He did not say where his father died. “For me, he was the reason I fell in love with the game of hockey,” Gretzky wrote of his father. “He inspired me to be the…
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