Sentences with phrase «hockey players in»

Ostensibly, it is the story of a team of nine - year old hockey players in a Boston suburb, their coach, a former high school baseball coach and local sports hero, the all - male board of directors of the town's hockey club, a hockey mom concerned about her kids emotional well - being, and, at center ice, a set of adorable, identical, competitive, but sensitive twin boys who became, as is all too often the case in the adult - centered world of youth sports, the unintended but innocent victims of a real life power play.

Minnesota Hockey, the governing body for 40,000 youth hockey players in the state, has voted to continue with the pilot program begun last Janaury that made checking from behind and boarding 5 minute major and 10 minute misconduct penalties.

Minnesota Hockey, the governing body for 40,000 youth hockey players in the state, has voted to continue rule changes enacted last January which stiffened the penalties for checking from behind and boarding and hope for better enforcement.

«They weren't the best hockey players in the world,» Werblin says, «but they were the best available hockey players and we needed them.»

But unlike other conferences, in which schools go on and off probation, NESCAC promptly parted ways with Union College when the school was accused of off - campus recruiting in its quest for hockey players in 1977.

The stamp, a blue 5 - center, shows three hockey players in action.

Team Hadelman was without a couple of the best Hockey players in the League..

Charlesworth is generally acknowledged to be the best field hockey player in the world, and since 1977 he has been the captain of his national team.

At 20, Sittler, a sophomore center, may be the best women's college hockey player in the country.

A minor league hockey player in West Virginia was suspended indefinitely for mooning fans during a game.

In his one full season at the University of Maine, in» 92 - 93, he led the Black Bears to the national championship and was the first freshman to win the Hobey Baker Award as top college hockey player in the U.S..

- The most interesting hockey player in the world

The body language of this hockey player in our wall mural says it all — intensity.

While he has accrued several noteworthy screen assignments (including the starring role of a nasty hockey player in 1992's The Cutting Edge), D.B. Sweeney is best remembered for his even - keel portrayal of the tragic Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988); if he looked like a «natural» on the ballfield, it was because Sweeney had once actually played minor league baseball with the Kenosha Twins, hanging up his spikes after a knee injury.

Josh Hartnett plays the former hockey player in question who, as the story begins, is not only battling with drug addiction, but also facing a possible jail sentence for reckless driving.

One editor said to me in 2000 about me being # 1 on the electronic bestseller list was like being the best hockey player in Equador.

We live in the wonderful city of Ladera Ranch and enjoy ice skating (in hopes of yet another hockey player in the family), finding new parks for our kids to play in and almost anything to do with the outdoors.

He also received the prestigious Bob Johnson Memorial Award given by the Pittsburgh Penguins to the top academic high - school hockey player in Western Pennsylvania.

A rec hockey player in Ottawa has been granted a new trial after a judge was found to have erroneously applied speculative reasoning to her decision that convicted him of blindsiding another player.

Interesting Fact: Prior to his legal career, Matt was an accomplished junior hockey player in southwestern Ontario.

Not exact matches

At its plant near Montreal, sports giant Reebok - CCM offers a glimpse of the densely woven global - local process involved in making gear for professional hockey players.

They're among 80 skiers, snowboarders, curlers and hockey players representing TeamUSA at the Paralympic Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

A pending class action lawsuit over player wages has shed new light on the finances of teams in the Ontario and Western Hockey Leagues

I'm pretty sure that like most ten year - old boys growing up in Montreal I wanted to be a professional hockey player.

It's funny, I was just in Buffalo this past week, where Tim Horton, the hockey player, actually played for a couple seasons — ’72 through» 74 — so his legacy is very much alive there.

So much of the Tim Hortons brand is tangled up in our national identity — and with a hockey player that fewer and fewer people have heard of.

To illustrate how it works in practice, Koenig offers the example of a professional hockey player whose profile shows that he has gene variants found in people who respond rapidly to lactic - acid threshold training.

In Russia's Kontinental Hockey League, teams would be permitted to sign three NHL players, only one of whom can be non-Russian.

It's like trying to pick a hockey player when he's in the junior leagues.

In 2012, Chan and a precocious undergrad named David Novati planted a first flag, publishing a paper on a new way to calculate the value of hockey players.

Nick writes: Am I right in thinking that people are less likely to be upset by the high incomes of hockey players than faceless CEOs?

And I expect the NHL salary cap can in principle internalise the externality of the training war between hockey players.

To celebrate the NHL's international diversity, the World Cup of Hockey will return in September 2016, a best - on - best international tournament featuring eight teams comprised of the world's best hockey plHockey will return in September 2016, a best - on - best international tournament featuring eight teams comprised of the world's best hockey plhockey players.

The Kraft Heinz search for America's most passionate hockey community, in partnership with the National Hockey League (NHL ®) and National Hockey League Players» Association (NHLPA), led to more than a thousand local rink nominations across the United Shockey community, in partnership with the National Hockey League (NHL ®) and National Hockey League Players» Association (NHLPA), led to more than a thousand local rink nominations across the United SHockey League (NHL ®) and National Hockey League Players» Association (NHLPA), led to more than a thousand local rink nominations across the United SHockey League Players» Association (NHLPA), led to more than a thousand local rink nominations across the United States.

The National Hockey League (NHL ®), founded in 1917, consists of 30 Member Clubs, with players from more than 20 countries represented across team rosters, competing for the most revered trophy in professional sports — the Stanley Cup ®.

The NHLPA works on behalf of the players in varied disciplines such as labor relations, product licensing, marketing, international hockey and community relations, all in furtherance of its efforts to promote its members and the game of hockey.

As observed by hockey player, Sean Collins, although there is a plethora of factories dedicated to making hockey sticks in China, there are few resellers, and his China - based team relies on China - made equipment imported from abroad.

After suffering a fire in 1949 and rebuilding from scratch six years later, this beloved gem has served generations of young hockey players for nearly 70 years.

The Kraft Hockeyville ™ USA contest, now in its fourth year and in partnership with the National Hockey League (NHL ®) and the National Hockey League Players» Association (NHLPA), is proud to award Clinton Arena in Clinton, N.Y. an opportunity to host an NHL ® Pre-Season Game and $ 150,000 in rink upgrades.

In addition to the rink upgrades — and with the support of Kraft Heinz — NHLPA Goals & Dreams, the players» charitable grassroots hockey program, will donate new hockey equipment to select Kraft Hockeyville ™ USA communities, giving more disadvantaged youth the opportunity to play hockey.

He turned 58 in May and still plays goalie as a hockey player.»

If all goes according to plan for McDavid and the Oilers, he could one day (and probably sooner than later) be the best player in hockey.

He had a hand in more than 41 percent of the goals the Oilers scored when he played, which is right on par with the best offensive players in hockey.

A black coach in a city school has an advantage recruiting in a sport dominated by black athletes.I would also say a black coach would be at a disadvantage recruiting hockey players to play in North Dakota.

I understand why other teams» fans don't like that move because it looks like Subban stops playing hockey to just punch a star player in the face, but that's not what it is.

They did get better as the season went on and they can be serious players with an addition or two for years to come in the Floor Hockey League.

Football is unique among major team sports not because of its violence — hockey and rugby are violent, basketball is a contact sport, and baseball players can get rocked in the eye socket by a 101 - mph weapon — but because of its specialization.

We're going to keep both the Kickball and Floor Hockey Rankings in the same article each week to make it just that much easier for the Players who participating in both (it's a one - stop shop).

But, for all this, hockey players seem to see nothing artificial in the play - offs at all and nothing unusual in a system by which a team finishing fourth during the season (as did Toronto in 1948 - 49) should end up as the Stanley Cup custodian.

And while I'm more of the opinion that fancy stats in hockey are generally more indicative of a system vs assessment of individual players, and thus need to be taken with a grain of salt, (even in this case as you mentioned because you can assume the average save percentage is, to an extent, a function of the defense playing in front of a goalie) Lehner's GSAA is SUPER bad.