This I Believe - Hockey is
the Cure for what Ails America
By
Joe Scatchell
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March 2, 2007
Failing test scores,
ill-behaved day care
children, gangs, drug use,
the list goes on of the ills
facing our country. We look
for quick answers that many
times end up creating new
issues and the circle of
problems grows wider in an
ever-spiraling pattern. So
how do we stop the momentum
and hope to reverse its
damage? Play Hockey.
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I Hope They Didn't Bring Apple Juice
By
Steve Simons, Toronto Sun
March 20, 2007
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There was about two minutes to
play in the playoff game and I
was anxiously pacing behind the
bench, barking out whatever
instructions seemed important at
that very moment. You watch the
game and you watch the clock in
those final seconds, sometimes
precisely at the very same time.
We were up by a goal, poised to
advance to the next round of the
playoffs, when I felt a tug on
my jacket. "Ah coach," one of my
players said on the bench.
"Yea," I answered, concentrating
more on the game and the clock
than on him at that instance.
"Is there snacks today?
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Where
are all the Canadians in NCAA hockey?
By
Steve Simons, Toronto Sun
March 15, 2007
WARNING: The following information may offend or
upset naive hockey parents in this province.
The NCAA scholarship road is drying up for Ontario
hockey players. The opportunities that once existed
are becoming fewer.
An investigation of the top 10 teams in U.S. college
hockey this season shows only 59 Canadian players on
those rosters, and only 11 of those from the Greater
Toronto Area.
Eleven Toronto players on 10 teams? Sixteen on the
top 15? That's sixteen over four years of college.
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Education: NCAA or CHL
By
USHL
Central Scouting
NCAA hockey universities graduation rate 84% to the
CHL's 16%
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Unhappy
anniversary
By
Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
January 29, 2007
Everyone has a favorite conspiracy theory about the
NBA. Some like the idea that David Stern fixed the
1984 draft lottery. Others favor his supposed secret
suspension of a star player for gambling problems.
Mine dates back to the early 1990s, when the NHL was
white hot with fans and never better on the ice.
Wayne Gretzky was in Los Angeles.
Mark Messier was with the
New York Rangers, who were on the verge of
ending their Stanley Cup drought.
Mario Lemieux,
Steve Yzerman, Ray Bourque, Patrick Roy and many
others were hitting their prime.
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InsideCollegeHockey did their annual report
looking at where college hockey players come
from. This was the first year since they
started tallying in 2002-2003 that Minnesota
passed Ontario as the top provider of
college hockey players in the country.
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3 Blue, 7 White, 10 Red, please stand up
By Harry Thompson
After a moment of awkward silence and uncertainty,
three boys rise from their seats in the crowded
lecture hall at St. Cloud State University.
They could feel the eyes of their 237 peers staring
at them as Andy Slaggert begins his introduction to
the evening’s presentation on what it takes to play
college hockey.
“Gentlemen, these three represent the percentage of
you who will go on to play pro hockey. The rest of
you will not.”
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Net Increase?
Coaches
Mull Whether Size Matters
by Scott Weighart/Senior
Writer
When the
1998 movie flop Godzilla was
first advertised, billboards blared
"Size Does Matter." With scoring down in
college hockey before and since that
juncture, the same expression could be
used in reference to the hockey net.
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The Eight 'C's' of a Winning
Team
By JIM LARRANAGA AOL
"Winning is a habit"
- Vince Lombardi
There are certain attributes
a team must have in order to
be successful. At George
Mason we emphasize these
qualities every day.
We want our players to
understand and appreciate
what each person brings to
our program and why we
recruited him. It is not
always the most talented
team that wins. In fact,
physical talent is only one
of many ingredients that
help a team succeed. That is
why we look for the 8 C’s in
recruiting to build a
program that wins
consistently:
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Training pieces must fit
into skillful package
By Jack Blatherwick
Let’s Play Hockey
Columnist
Imagine an assembly line
in Detroit that has no
idea what the final
product is supposed to
be. Thousands of
skilled employees — each
one an expert in his own
area — but no one has
given them a picture of
the completed vehicle.
Are we making a sports
car?
An
SUV?
A
truck? No one
knows, so each employee
just does his own
thing. Even an
auto-maker who can lose
$12
billion in a
year couldn’t be that
dumb. But development of
young hockey players in
the United States just
might be. We have
thousands of experts
chomping at the bit to
make a contribution, and
they’re each very good
at what they do. But
they haven’t been given
a picture of the final
product. This is
obvious by the outcome:
the advice for young
players is
compartmentalized —
separate workouts — each
expert emphasizing his
own thing.
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