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...make decisive black-and-white rulings even when there is a lot of gray area in a tough situation. I want tough-minded arbiters who are quick on their FEET and quick with their minds while showing calm under pressure. As I spelled out in yesterday's blog, the game also needs officials who can kee...
...He's still working on his average skating ability, but each season since being drafted he looks slightly faster and stronger (he couldn't stay on his FEET for more than 5 seconds in his draft year). He's known as a leader and a guy who takes his off ice act very seriously. o make the show he will ne...
...oves that take you down the path to bitter disappointment are big, like trading Lubomir Visnovsky for a player that even local media knew had serious FEET problems that required surgery. Sometimes they're smaller moves dealing with relatively unknown prospects. The thread that connects them all toge...
...re constantly turning in his head as he soaked up his surroundings. His approach was methodical and his game was pretty simple--keep the head up, the FEET moving and jump on any opportunity on any part of the ice. It's an approach that doesn't lend itself to immediate Steve Bernier-like one-hit-w...
...irst NHL defenseman to score that many since Atlanta's Dustin Byfuglien had three in 2010-11. Barrie had five game-winning goals. Barrie, who is 5-FEET-10 and 190 pounds, didn't play particularly well in the first four games and he was a healthy scratch for eight of the next nine games. He was se...
...k,” said Ennis back in February. “I’m a little more instinctive. When I start thinking about Xs and Os, that’s when I start to stop moving my FEET and stop making plays. I need to play my game and want the puck and make plays with the puck.” “To … say, ‘You have to be at this plac...
...otes coach) really gave me hell about it." For this season, the NHL's Competition Committee passed a recommendation to widen the trapezoid by four FEET. This would be a welcomed change for goaltenders who excel at playing the puck, such as Flyers goaltender Steve Mason. One of the most impres...
...is Seattle a city that’s proven to be a booming sports market ready to throw their unwavering devotion to any sports team that wants to plant their FEET (or skates) there. So we’ve established the cities. But what about the names? In Las Vegas, there’s already an ECHL team named the Wra...
...o Laura Secord. War of 1812 sand sculpture display at the former Niagara Falls Memorial Arena. Every sculpture in the exhibit is at least 13 FEET high. The works were created by 17 different sculptures from around the world. The exhibition at the old hockey arena has been a big success thu...
...come as no surprise: 1) strong positional puck support, 2) an effective short-range (five-foot to 10-foot) passing game, and 3) players keeping their FEET moving. These are age-old mantras. More interestingly, Bourne pointed out that the effective use of analytics on breakouts and zone entries, ...
...out six-foot-five (then again, doesn't it is seem like most young goalies nowadays are huge?). He has the biggest smile along with two of the biggest FEET that I have ever seen. The box his skates came in could double as a small row boat. One of the big thrills of my playing career came when I pl...
...? He's a huge fan favorite here in Washington and loves playing for the Caps. He's also a UFA after this season, so here's hoping he doesn't get cold FEET. ...
Former Leafs Assistant GM Claude Loiselle reportedly will not land on his FEET at the NHL Offices as the head of the league’s Department of Player Safety, according to TSN’s Darren Dreger. The 51-year-old Loiselle was dismissed along with Dave Poulin by new team president Brendan Shanahan in...
... fell in the water. The propeller blade hits his right arm and slices through the muscle in his bicep. Fortunately, the boat was in less than five FEET of water and Renberg’s father and friends were able to rescue him and get medical help. The propeller did not sever any of the nerves in Renber...
...as done. He injury was a by product of playing the game at a high rate of speed.He wasn’t dancing around on the half boards, shooting pucks from 35 FEET away. He was driving the blue ice and back checking like his hair was on fire. It’s the only way that he knows how to play. While on assignm...
...s in front. LeClair also had an overpowering slap shot he could unleash from anywhere over the blueline, while Kerr was also deadly from about 25 FEET away from the net and could score from his knees or even flat on his belly better than just about any player I've ever seen (including LeClair, w...
...ton for doing a great job of keeping Sharks shooters to the outside that night. Just like a couple of days ago, look at how many shots were inside 30-FEET. He was unbelievable that night. ...
...ut Joe Pavelski because he is awesome. Like Jose Bautista in baseball, Pavelski came out of nowhere to score 40 goals. This is a guy who's under six FEET and who was drafted in the seventh round. Imagine the heat the Sharks blogger took in 2009 if/when he called out a prediction that Pavelski would...
...ng up four goals. That's ... not common? Here's what's amazing -- the average shot distance for an Anaheim player on the evening was less than 28-FEET. I want you to think long and hard about the importance of shot distance and the role it plays in shooting percentages. Particularly, this older ...
...onto the team was impacted by the sale of the NBA’s Los Angeles Clippers for 2 billion dollars. This was a very convenient time to develop “cold FEET.” Barroway’s group claims that a deal was reached in principle and both parties shook on an agreed price of 420 million dollars. Howeve...
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