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Pre-Game Jitters – Normal For Junior Hockey Coaches


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By M. R. Overbury

Relieve pregame stress:

Parents feel a huge amount of stress when their children compete-often more stress than the child. While transporting their kids to the game, some of that stress assuredly has been absorbed by your junior team members because kids are in tune with how their parents feel and are highly intuitive. Part of coaching a junior hockey team is dealing with this.

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The Warrior Hockey Stick – Has it Overtaken Mighty Easton?

By Dennis Lindsay

Ever since Easton turned the hockey world upside down with their revolutionary composite Easton Synergy stick they have had a stranglehold on the hockey stick marketplace. Big companies like Bauer, Sherwood and Reebok have all tried to put a dent in their market share, but Easton has continued to fight off these hockey equipment giants by continually raising the bar on hockey stick technology. But perhaps their greatest threat isn’t coming from these major hockey equipment manufacturers. While Easton is busy fending off these elephants of the hockey world, a tiny mouse is slipping unnoticed in the backdoor, and is quietly but quickly nibbling away at Easton’s grip on the hockey stick marketplace.

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NHL Hockey Players In-Season Workout Secrets

By Kim McCullough

NHL players do off-ice workouts at least two days per week in order to play and feel their best throughout the season. With an 82 game schedule and so much time spent practicing and traveling, these elite players don’t have the energy to do long drawn out off-ice workouts. Therefore, most of their in-season workouts are kept to 30 minutes or less. (more…)

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Colorado Scholastic Inline Hockey Gets Even Better for 2008-2009

Colorado ( PRWEB) October 15, 2008 — At summer’s end, Colorado’s inline hockey student athletes will prepare for the upcoming middle school and high school competitive inline hockey fall and winter seasons. Combined with the already successful high school and middle school leagues, CHSIHL plans to introduce several new programs that will promote the importance of continued athletic development year round. Student athletes will have the opportunity to continue their inline hockey training through out the year in a professional and structured environment that will give them an advantage for the start of the new scholastic inline hockey seasons.

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Bauer Hockey Buys Mission-ITECH

TORONTO, Sept. 24 /CNW/ — Bauer Hockey today announced it has purchased Mission-ITECH Hockey, a leader in goal equipment, protective apparel and facial protection.

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How Hockey Players Can Stand Out at Camp & Make the Team

By Kim McCullough

The majority of young players will be participating in skill-based training camps this summer. However, a select number will be heading off to high-performance tryout camps over the course of the next few months.

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Girls Hockey Training – What to Avoid This Summer – Part 2

By Kim McCullough

In of “What To Avoid This Summer”, we discussed the importance of players performing functional exercises in their summer training programs. In this article, I will talk about another training problem that is far too common with girls hockey players – and young female athletes in general. (more…)

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Girls Hockey Training – What to Avoid This Summer – Part 1

By Kim McCullough

I recently reviewed the off-season training program of a varsity women’s hockey team from a major university.

The off-season training programs available to female hockey players have come a long way since I was a 16 year old reading women’s fitness magazines to find tips and advice on how to take my game to the next level. (more…)

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REEBOK Hockey launches the new 9K Pump skate

MONTREAL, May 23 /CNW/ – On Sunday June 1st the wait will be over. After much anticipation, REEBOK Hockey will be unveiling its newly re-designed 9K Pump skate. Hockey enthusiasts will finally be able to get their hands on the skates that have helped Sidney Crosby and Pavel Datsyuk excel in the NHL playoffs this year. (more…)

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Athletic Republic and USA Hockey Announce Training Center Partnership

Fargo, ND (PRWEB) May 15, 2008 — Athletic Republic today announced a new strategic partnership with USA Hockey. Specifically, the three-year contract will provide Athletic Republic’s patented equipment and science-based, hockey specific training programs to the 46 members of the federation’s U17 and U18 National Team Development Program (USNTDP). (more…)

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Flex Court Athletics Offers Nationwide Franchising Opportunities

Flex Court Athletics, a leader in the field of high performance modular sports surfaces, including outdoor basketball courts, tennis courts, roller hockey, gym flooring, and aerobics flooring, is offering a unique opportunity for would-be business owners to become Flex Court Franchisees. As business owners, they will have the opportunity to become a part of this growing company through the successful marketing of sports surfaces for residential and commercial use.

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Goalie’s lives just got easier thanks to Nike Bauer’s new One95 all-composite goalie stick featuring TeXtreme® Spread Tow carbon fiber fabric

Borås, Sweden, March 5, 2008 – Nike Bauer Hockey’s latest goal stick phenomenon – the all-composite, patented One95 – is exceptionally lightweight and durable thanks to TeXtreme® Spread Tow carbon fiber fabric. In collaboration with Oxeon AB, Nike Bauer has developed a unique design that features technically-advanced fabric for enhanced performance and esthetics.

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Nike Completes Sale of Bauer Hockey

BEAVERTON, OR (17 April, 2008) – NIKE, Inc. (NYSE:NKE) today announced the completion of its previously disclosed sale of the company’s Bauer Hockey subsidiary to an investor group led by Kohlberg & Company and Canadian businessman W. Graeme Roustan for $200 million in cash. The company also announced that Bauer CEO Mark Duggan, a long-time Nike executive, will remain with Nike following the sale.

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6 Things You MUST Know Before Buying Your Next Pair of Ice Hockey Skates

By: Patrick Francey

Mistake #…
1.) Rushing out to buy the manufacturers top model of skate.

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Cypress PSoC® CapSense™ Technology Turns On The Heat In New Hockey Skates From Therma Blade

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 14, 2007 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that its PSoC® CapSense™ solution for capacitive sensing is employed in the revolutionary new heated hockey blades made by Therma Blade, Inc. Therma Blades are technologically advanced skate blades that use electronics to heat the blade, thereby reducing friction between the blade and ice surface, creating a smoother feel, and improved skating performance. (more…)

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