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Ice Hockey is composed of two basic skills, great skating technique and great stickhandling skills. In this introduction, let's look at good basic stickhandling. The very first thing to consider is whether the hockey stick you are using is the best one for you. It may be an old stick inherited from [...]

When hockey players first start off in the NHL they're pulled in many different directions since they're making all this money and have no idea that the kind of friends they're dealing with are people that are not the kind of people you want around. This goes into the kind of women who end up [...]

A good hockey player depends upon a great skating technique to support his game.

Ice hockey evolved and developed from the concept of field hockey that was played in Europe for hundreds of years. A McGill University student named J.G.A Creighton, as many of us know took the modern day version of ice hockey from its roots in Canada. He was the dubbed the 'grandfather' of ice hockey regulations [...]

Since the conception and foundation of Hockey, this sport has crossed from Canada-the birthplace of the sport and across the pond to Europe and back to the United States. As far as competition at the international level. The international men's ice hockey world championships are highly regarded by Europeans and less regarded by Americans because [...]

Wayne Gretzky was acknowledged as one of the all time great hockey players by nearly everyone when he broke several of Gordie Howe's records. He became the all time leading scorer with his 802nd goal, and also the all time point-getter when he got his 1852nd point.

The one thing that people who are not economically savvy is that people invest $213 billion dollars just in professional sports, alone which only makes up 1/8 of the national economy. It takes about $70 million+ to operate a single NHL franchise despite the popularity of a team. This is why so many teams have [...]

Athletes make a lot of money playing hockey for the NHL through endorsements for lots of things from clothes to cars. The problem with a lot of professional athletes is their insatiable need to spend a lot of money. What really is amazing is how they live above and beyond their means when usually the [...]

Back in 2004 many people rang the bell of doom on the National Hockey League, as it missed a season due to player and management differences. Many people said that a sport that misses a whole season and that emphasized brute strength over skill would never recover. However, in the past few years [...]

In terms of ownership and operation of a team most of the teams in the NHL are owned by private people and investors, but only one player so far has sole ownership of a NHL franchise and that's Mario Lemieux who played 17 years (1984-2006) with the Pittsburgh Penguins and when the team was in [...]