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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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How Hockey Rinks and Arenas Schedule Ice Time

By Amy Nutt

Winter games usually revolve around things like snow and ice, but when it comes to a skating or hockey rink, fun can be had year round. To get in on the action, non pro teams will have to schedule time on the ice. These allotted sessions, known as "ice time" can be doled out a number of ways.

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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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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 3

By Kim McCullough

In Part & 2 of “What to AVOID This Summer”, we reviewed the importance of functional training and interval-based conditioning in a complete off-season training program. In Part 3, I will explain the third (and possibly biggest) problem I saw with the varsity women’s hockey program I recently reviewed. (more…)

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Elite Hockey Team Coming to Vernon Hills, Illinois This Fall

A new amateur elite ice hockey team will take to the ice this fall in Vernon Hills, Illinois. The Vernon Hills Capitals will join the ten-team Great Lakes Hockey League (GLHL) when the league begins playing its 71st season in October. The new team will call Glacier Ice Arena in Vernon Hills its home. The GLHL features players who have college hockey, junior hockey, and semi-pro experience in other leagues. Several players with National Hockey League (NHL) connections have already committed to playing for the Capitals this fall. (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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New Sports Community Resource Vikaza.com Announces $250 Team Sponsorships

Vikaza.com, an online neighborhood sports community™, is proud to announce that it will award $250-team sponsorships to youth and adult sports teams throughout the spring sports season.

Reston, VA (PRWEB) April 3, 2008 — Vikaza.com, an online neighborhood sports community™, is proud to announce that it will award $250-team sponsorships for youth and adult sports teams throughout the spring sports season.

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Experts Say 90% of Youth Sports Coaches Have Little to No Training, Thus Putting Their Athletes at Risk

Carson City, NV (PRWEB) May 6, 2008– The American Coaching Academy warns that untrained volunteer coaches are putting young athletes at risk in alarming numbers.

“There are an estimated 3.5 million youth sport coaches in the United States,” says Dr. Ryan Hedstrom, Professor of Sports Administration at Castleton State College. “All but a million of those are volunteer coaches at the youth level, and 90% of those individuals have little or no training in coaching.”

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CANADA GAMES SUPPORT CANADA’S NEXT GENERATION CHAMPIONS

May 8, 2008) Ottawa – The Canada Games Council (CGC) and the Foundation for Athletes Sport Training (FAST) today announced the launch of the 4th year of the Canada Games FAST Track athlete grant program.

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NHL.COM TEAMS WITH SPORTS LEARNINGEDGE LLC TO ENHANCE THE LEARNING CENTER

NEW YORK (March 6, 2008) — NHL Interactive CyberEnterprises (NHL ICE) has added The PlayersEdge to The Learning Center to enhance the NHL.com Network website with additional information that gives young people a choice of video, animation, and text. Found on NHL.com under “Fan Zone,” The Learning Center provides youth hockey players, parents and coaches worldwide a single, trusted online source to get on-demand sports tips and tools in an easy-to-learn style.

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