Sentences with phrase «hockey seasons change»

Not exact matches

However, this year in their 6th go around, they have new hope... The playoff formats have changed and their successful regular seasons may now earn them an opportunity to skip Hoops in the playoffs in exchange for Floor Hockey..

Due to all of the changes introduced by the NHL after the strike — we used data only for the current hockey season.

As I watch the Stanley Cup playoffs I am reminded each spring about the ever - changing rules in hockey: One set for the regular season, and one set for playoffs.

These days, it seems many hockey parents and players consider what used to be the traditional off - season, when kids played outdoors and changed sports until the next winter season, as the real season, because it is the time of year when AAA all - star teams are formed and tournaments are played, weekend after weekend.

All of us involved in youth sports - from parents, to coaches, from athletic trainers to school athletic directors to the athletes themselves - have a responsibility to do what we can to make contact and collision sports safer, whether it by reducing the number of hits to the head a player receives over the course of a season (such as N.F.L. and the Ivy League are doing in limiting full - contact practices, and the Sports Legacy Institute recently proposed be considered at the youth and high school level in its Hit Count program), teaching football players how to tackle without using their head (as former pro football player Bobby Hosea has long advocated), changing the rules (as the governing body for high school hockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomhockey in Minnesota did in the aftermath of the Jack Jablonski injury or USA Hockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recomHockey did in banning body checks at the Pee Wee level), or giving serious consideration to whether athletes below a certain age should be playing tackle football at all (as the American Academy of Pediatrics recommend).

Following a season of grueling practices and hard - fought games, football and ice hockey players who had no outward sign of head trauma showed worrisome changes in brain structure and cognitive performance that weren't shared by athletes who competed in varsity sports such as track, crew and cross-country skiing, according to a report published Wednesday in the journal Neurology.

It's been unusually chilly here these last few days, so sweaters and hockey are just what we need to embrace the change in seasons.

Coby, I have as much a scientific interest in climate change as anyone else but it doesn't seem to me that after the NAS report the «Hockey Season is over» at all.

Have you ever heard of the crazy NHL hockey players who don't change their smelly socks during the entire playoff season for fear of breaking a good luck streak?