Sentences with phrase «hockey players took»

After joining the program, several hockey players took it upon themselves to do more besides just offset travel.

The 34 - year - old Canadian hockey player took to Instagram on Tuesday, May 15, to share an adorable — and hilarious -LSB-...]

Not exact matches

Granted, one might question the skills of some highly paid CEOs (whose companies perform terribly), but the same could be said of some highly paid hockey players (who individually perform poorly - I'm a leafs fan, take your pick)

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.

THE TRANSITION from jock to TV personality isn't quite as easy as guys like Tiki Barber and Keyshawn Johnson make it seem — which explains why nine ex — NHL players took part in a six - day broadcasting class in Quinnipiac University's Life After Hockey program.

In case you haven't realized, + / - is one of the worst player stats in all of hockey and should not be taken seriously.

Young players like Mikko Rantanen, Nikita Zadorov, and Chris Bigras take big steps in their development and are able to make solid, if subtle, contributions to good team hockey.

They sold 18,978 seats at a hockey rink in Raleigh on Monday night, and almost no one used them.For three hours, from the first strains of the Canadian and U.S. nationalanthems until the last Carolina Hurricanes player had taken a twirl with themost fabled trophy in sports, a crowd stood as it might have for a tip - offbetween Duke and North Carolina and then forgot to sit, roaring in witness of awell - traveled franchise bringing another kind of championship to Tobacco Road.

Related: Devan Dubnyk makes a miraculous diving save after misplaying puck Related: Lithuanian Hockey Player throws stick at referee at end of U-18 World Championship Game Related: Vancouver Canucks take you inside an NHL Trade Call Related: Marc - Andre Fleury gets his stick stuck in boards Related: Dan Boyle scores sick coast - to - coast power play goal

Paul Bissonette, better known as BizNasty and for his Tweeting than playing for the Phoenix Coyotes, takes a lot of flack for not getting a lot of playing time and for being a bad hockey player.

• U.S. Olympic Hockey Coach Jack Riley does not ordinarily have his players take oxygen between periods.

This past weekend, the MInnesota State High School League took an unprecedented step of changing the rules mid-season, by stiffening the penalties on three of the most violent and dangerous infractions in hockey: checking from behind, boarding and contact to the head will now result in an automatic five - minute «major» against the offending player resulting in ejection and forcing his team to play short - handed for five minutes, regardless of how many times it is scored upon during the ensuing power play.

Player safety takes the spotlight at the Herb Brooks Foundation Safety Summit as part of the boys sate high school hockey tournament in St. Paul, Minnesota.

But regardless if this is true, parents of peewees are likely to notice the RAE in the early years, and, given that few kids will become elite hockey players, it's important to take this trend seriously.

A few years ago, players in the Central Missouri Eagles Youth Ice Hockey program which I help coach spent the afternoon with sick, injured and disabled patients at a local children's hospital who must clear substantial hurdles before they can play the sports so many families simply take for granted.

It takes years to build an ice rink, though,» said Darryl Seibel, a spokesman for USA Hockey, whose nationwide membership of players, coaches and officials has more than doubled to 464,713 in the last seven years.

Contrary to what my brother had been told by doctors who treated him that it would take about 2 weeks to heal from a concussion, I found it was taking the hockey players an average of 3 - 6 months to be symptom - free and several players were still having symptoms after a year.

Last year for my fourth grade science project I surveyed 3 high school hockey teams about whether players had experienced concussions, how many concussions, what symptoms they had and how long it took for them to be symptom free.

A month after hundreds of ice hockey coaches, parents and players lobbied the Town of Tonawanda to build a new arena, the Town Board took a first step on Monday, agreeing to spend $ 23,000 for a feasibility study.

Watching football, hockey or boxing, I cringe when I see a player take a hit to the head.

As a guy (and former hockey player) I take pride in having strong legs.

Tooth Fairy Dwayne Johnson plays a muscled hockey player who suddenly sprouts wings and takes a shift as the eponymous dental pixie in Michael Lembeck's benignly silly comedy.

Take a look at what hockey player Tony Westerlund had to stay about the performance of the I - PACE.

In spite of most NHL hockey players and seasonal investors starting to take it easy, Canadian discount brokerages were still keeping busy keeping one another on their toes.

With the demo version of Hockey Ultimate Team, players will be able to take part in a mini tournament with the Halifax Mooseheads, Grand Rapids Griffins, Chicago Blackhawks and Boston Bruins.

This new mode allows players to take control of their home (or favorite) country and play through the World Cup of Hockey just like the pros are right now.

Of course, taking time to learn and practice the nuances of a modern hockey game rewards players with a level of depth and realism that makes the game seem like a sport itself, but much like a race in Burnout can be more exhilarating than one in Gran Turismo, sometimes we simply want to pretend we're an elite hockey player within seconds of picking up a controller.

Be a Pro mode lets you take your created player from the College Hockey League all the way up to the big guns, giving you nearly full control over how your individual player performs.

In a hockey world without career lengths or a salary cap, acquire and assemble top players from around the world, then take on friends or skilled opponents from a massive online community.

From that set - up, the player can choose from dozens of teams (not just the NHL but everyone who picks up a hockey stick around the world, including international organizations) to take in any number of gameplay modes, most of which have been tweaked with notable improvements and enhancements since NHL 12.

The sexual assault trial of two former University of Ottawa hockey players, David Foucher and Guillaume Donovan, which was scheduled to take place on August 21, has been pushed back to Feb. 5 - 16, 2018.

An interesting decision from Ontario took away a father's joint custody of his son, but allowed him to retain access so that the son, who was a competitive hockey player, could ``... have a sense of relaxation which he currently enjoys at this father's home in contrast the rigors of a very busy schedule while at his mother's residence.»