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Hockey Development
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The Texas Jr. Stars Bantam travel team hosted a “Pink in the Rink” weekend in Austin. The team wore pink hockey skate laces and taped their hockey sticks pink. They also sold pink ribbons during the games and will donated the money for breast cancer awareness.
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Stats Update - Pro NCAA / WHL / OHL / USHL By Tanner Wilson
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ere’s the Updated States through October 9th for Players playing in the Western Hockey League (WHL), Ontario Hockey League & the United States Hockey League as they season has been underway for a few weeks now. Other Leagues like the American Hockey League (AHL) & NCAA will be getting underway on October 12th. As for the NHL Lockout, all regular season games have been canceled through October 24th, with no signs that it could be ending anytime soon right now.
American Hockey League Bridgeport Sound Tigers
Matt Donovan Season Started on October 12th at the Connecticut Whale
Portland Pirates Chris Brown Season Starts on Started 13 at the Adirondack Phantoms Brown Scored a goal in a Pre-Season Game on 10/6 against the Manchester Monarchs.
Texas Stars Austin Smith Season Started on October 13th at the San Antonio Rampage
Western Hockey League Kelowna Rockets
Colten Martin: 7 GP 0 G 2 A 2 PTS +6 4 PIM
Medicine Hat Tigers Matt Staples: 4 GP 0 G 0 A 0 PTS -3 4 PIM
Portland Winterhawks Seth Jones: 6 GP 0 G 2 A 2 PTS -2 6 PIM Played in the All American Prospects Game back on September 29th in Buffalo.
Prince George Cougars Colin Jacobs: 6 GP 6 G 6 A 12 PTS +2 2 PIM Jacobs is in a 4 Way Tie right now for the WHL Scoring Lead with Sam Fioretti (Moose Jaw Warriors), Nick Buonassisi (Brandon Wheat Kings) & JC Lipon (Kamloops Blazers).
Ontario Hockey League Plymouth Whalers
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Tanner Karty: 4 GP 2 G 0 A 2 PTS -1 6 PIM
Tri-City Storm Ryan McMurphy: 3 GP 0 G 1 A 1 PTS E 0 PIM Jason Cotton: 1 GP 0 G 0 A 0 PTS E 0 PIM Christian Frey: 7 GP 0 G 2 A 2 PTS +6 4 PIM
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Central Collegiate Hockey Association (CCHA)
Miami (OH) Redhawks Blake Coleman Season Started on October 12th against Colgate University
Western Michigan Broncos Colton Hargrove Season Started on October 12th VS. St. Lawrence University
Northern Michigan Wildcats CJ Ludwig Erik Higby Ryan Daugherty Season Started on October 12th against the University of Wisconsin.
Cornell Big Red Armand De Swardt Season Started on October 12th against Colgate University
Western Collegiate Hockey Association (WCHA) Colorado College Tigers
Ian Young Season Starts on October 12th VS. Clarkson
Minnesota State Mavericks Taylor Hendon Chase Grant Chase played just 5 Games last year before getting injured & applied for a Medical Red Shirt. Minnesota State will start the Season on 10/12 VS. Alabama-Huntsvile
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Frisco’s Nick Mueller looks for an opening to shoot.
Landon Ruhde says NO GOAL! - Dallas Jr Stars 18UA - Page
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Kim Tinkham (1957 - 2010) Ice Times Magazine is dedicated to the memory of Kim Tinkham. Kim lost her brave battle with breast cancer Tuesday, December 7, 2010. Kim was a hockey mom, wife, youth hockey enthusiast, and editor and publisher of Ice Times. She will be greatly missed.
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Road Trip Tips By Luke Beltrand
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get asked questions about what a team or player should do on a road trip all the time, so I just decided to publish this for all of you! Notes:Stay away from fast food, Soda, energy drinks, things that are high in sugar. You need carbs but don’t overdo it. “Eat for performance, not for pleasure.” The goal with every meal is muscular recovery and to reduce muscle break down.
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• Protein Shake or Chocolate milk (not a lot, ginger
Lunch
I am sure you will have team meal at a restaurant. Meat and pasta is fine don’t overdo it on the carbs and the bread sticks, but make sure to get some good quality protein, and some good carbs. Stay away from heavy Breakfast- (Hotel) sauces and meals with lots of fat, Pizza, I know the usual hotel continental breakfast hamburgers and the like. Try to keep a good is tough so I listed a couple options to help! variety of colors on the plate and get those • Non sugary cereal. vegetables in! • Toast/Bagel/English muffin: Top with peanut Repeat pre and post for 2nd game butter, Honey. Dinner • Waffles are ok, use Same as Lunch, you do honey instead of syrup not have to do Italian, to if you like peanut just be reasonable, at butter then throw it on this point though if there. all games are played • Sausage and eggs are then you may carb going to be your main load in preparation for protein sources, feel tomorrow’s games. If free to through them you can’t get to a real into the bagels or toast restaurant try places like and make sandwiches. Subway or Super Wal• Protein Shake Mart both have great (Ages 15 and up) and cheap Sandwiches and multivitamin if possible are open a little later. • Fruit Try to keep a good variety of colors on the Pre Game 1 hr Before plate and get those vegetables in! • Protein Bar Sometime in the evening the team should • Coconut Water/Propel take a light jog and do a 10 minute Static • Peanut Butter and Honey Sandwhich Stretch. Ice Baths in the evening if you can • Fruit handle it are great as well since it will greatly 45 min before aid in muscular recovery. • Dynamic Stretch I hope this is extremely helpful and as 5 min before always if you have any questions please ask • Amino Drink (ages 15 and up) us at info@crullfitness.com! ■ • Natural, local unfiltered honey
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Luke Beltrand is a Former Collegiate Hockey player and Current Manager of Crull Fitness Valley Ranch. Luke is Certified as a Certified Fitness Specialist through the Cooper’s Institute and Sports Performance Coach through USA Weightlifting. Luke is the Head Strength and Conditioning Coach for over 40 local Hockey Teams..
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Texas Aces Goalie #32 Royce Allred
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The hockey season is a marathon not a sprint From the Board and Coaching leadership of Alliance Youth Hockey Association
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he Youth Hockey Season is an ongoing developmental process that really never starts nor ends. Our goals should be process driven (development) not result driven(winning). It is imperative that we make parents and players understand this. Ultimately, if we remain process driven, winning will be the end result as players develop and perfect skills over time. That being said, the hockey season consists of many different aspects that help this process along: • Practice • Off ice training • Games • Classroom/Video • Nutrition • Rest • Socialization • Lessons • Involvement in other athletic activities There has been and continues to be too much emphasis on games when they only constitute a very small percentage of this developmental process. When scheduled correctly and coached properly, they can be an excellent mechanism to improve overall skill and development. If done incorrectly, they can lead to worsening of bad habits, stagnation of development, burnout and quitting the sport.
It is important that players and parents understand that too many games is detrimental. It is also important that they understand the types of competition is also important. The popular concept of “playing up” as a general rule can have terrible consequences to growth and development. Many younger teams struggle to compete so they commit more penalties, learn bad habits and exhibit high levels of frustration. Each team’s game schedule should be well balanced and consist of different levels of competition for different reasons: Slightly lesser or weaker opponents – gain confidence and work on skills learned in practice Equal opponents – preparation and performance key to success Slightly better or stronger opponents – improve speed at which game is played and gain experience playing at a higher level In all these cases, lopsided victories or defeats are truly counterproductive to the end result -DEVELOPMENT. The perfect season for development is all teams with 50% wins and all games won or lost by a single goal. This is truly difficult to accomplish but it is our job as coaches and administrators to find this balance when placing our teams (kids) in situations to succeed or fail. All youth hockey associations should focus their energy on the long term success of development for the good of the kids. As they develop, gain skills, gain confidence and mature, winning is what will follow.■
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he weekend of October 12th – 14th the Texas Junior Brahmas Bantam Major team coached by Ron Vogel and Kevin McLeod hit the road to compete in the Kansas City Ice Breaker Youth Hockey Tournament. While the Jr. Brahmas Bantam team is classified locally as a division “A” team by the Dallas Stars Travel Hockey League, the team competed in the Tournaments “AA” division along with other AA teams from Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. The Jr. Brahmas hit the ice for their first game Saturday morning to face the Omaha Jr. Lancers. The Brahmas scored first and scored often, securing their first win of the tournament with a final score or 6-0. The Jr. Brahmas returned to the ice for the second game of the day, to face the Des Moines Jr. Buccaneers. After a hard-fought, evenly-matched, defensive-minded game, the game ended tied with a score of 1-1. Early Sunday morning the Jr. Brahmas hit the ice for their third of four “round robin”” games against the St. Peters Spirit. The Brahmas found themselves again in a low scoring defensive
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struggle with a strong St. Peters team. The Brahmas scored first, and the game was 1-0 well into the 3rd period. With two minutes left on the clock, St. Peters Spirit scored bringing the score to 1-1. Realizing the importance of a win, the Brahmas refocused and returned to the ice, determined to not end this game with another tie. With just 2.7 SECONDS left on the clock the Jr. Brahmas scored ending the game 2-1 and moving them one game closer to playing the Championship Game. In the final round robin game of the tournament the Jr. Brahmas (2-0-1) faced the undefeated Kansas City Stars (3-0-0). With multiple scenarios of advancing to the Championship game, the Jr. Brahmas were focused on controlling their own destiny, focusing on a win over the Stars to put them in the Championship Game. Kansas City’s speed and skill, played early in the game, was a clear example of why they were also undefeated at this point in the tournament. Following key adjustments by Coaches Vogel and McLeod, the Brahmas pulled ahead to win the game with a final score of 3-2, clinching their spot as the top seeded Home team in the Championship game. Following a short break, the Brahmas hit the ice for the 3rd time that day on Sunday afternoon for a re-match against the second seed Kansas City Stars. The Jr. Brahmas took the lead first this time ending the first period 2-0, but the Stars quickly tied it up in the second period with two back-to-back goals in 60 seconds. Following the second goal, Coach Vogel called a pivotal timeout to refocus the team. Following the timeout, the Brahmas defensive adjustments were evident and they took the lead 3-2. With 1.5 minutes left in the third period, the Stars pulled their goalie and the Jr. Brahmas took a penalty giving the Stars a 6-4 player advantage; however, the Jr. Brahmas scored on the open net ending the game with a final score of 5-2 allowing them to return home with the Championship Banner. ■
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Barret Allen Stands With the Allen Americans for the Anthem
#18 Kylie Fahmer battling for position (Stars Elite U14 Girls vs OKC Oil Kings)
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Texas Aces #9 Brendan Finn
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As most of you have heard, Tim Mangrum passed away. Please keep Melinda and the kids in your prayers, as well as the Charney and Mangrum families. As for Lone Star Indoor Sports...The schedule will run as usual and the IRONMAN tourney will occur. Please register your teams or sign up to play by emailing ironmangrum@yahoo.com. ALL proceeds from this event will benefit The Tim Mangrum Fund which will assist Melinda, Trevor, Bethany and John. “Keep your Stick on the Ice!”
Thomas Wheeler shoots for Frisco JV
Albert Wiggins Against Anehiem SNACKED !!!
“The best thing about sports is the sense of community and shared emotion it can create.” — Bob Costas
Cameron Boudreau Allen Americans Midget Major
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Jacob Gray #6 Bantam Major Jr. Braham under Ron Vogel
Texas Aces #19 Bronson Adams lands a hip check on a McKinney player
Jr. Rampage Midget Albert Wiggins mentors Jr. Rampage Mite Ian Gonzales at the Big Brother Mite skate day.
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The Alliance 12U AA Team enjoyed a 3 on 3 Tournament and pizza party for Halloween. Â
Richard Sobieski with the puck Dallas Penguins Midget Minor AA
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Cosmo’s Tip of the Month What is a Scout? By Cosmo Clarke
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scout tries to uncover the hidden talent of a hockey player and report back to teams with notes on a player’s strength and weaknesses. Scouting and recruiting is about seeking and finding a potential player for a team for the future. Every team looking for players will have different needs and wants based on the players that they currently have on their roster. Coaches and GM are continuously working with a jigsaw puzzle. Teams utilize the service of scouts to help build a championship team. Every scout will have their own unique evaluating system, but here is a brief breakdown of what they grade players on.
Offensive and Defensive Skills: Backchecking game, fore-checking game, can play solid at both ends of the ice, can play on penalty kill and power play, can rush the puck as a defenseman, To finish the evaluation of a
Goalies: Goalies have their own category. Lateral agility movements, quick up-down, control rebounds well, puck control, recovers quickly when the goes down, anticipation, plays angles well and good outside the crease, quick gloves, challenge the shooters, communication. A big part of the game these days is finding a goalie who can and is willing to play the puck. The bottom line is that players have to Skating; skating skills: skating acceleration, work at having an all-around game. It takes skating stride, skating agility, mobility a lot of time, effort, passion, and sacrifice to skating, backwards skating. move to the next level. It also requires being in the right place at the right time. ■ Puck Handling: Passing game, controls the play, give and receives passes, win faceoff.
Cosmo Clarke has five years pro hockey experience/CHL, CoHL & SHL. He is a Hockey Skills/Strength & Conditioning Coach, Dallas Oilers Youth Hockey (Major Midget Tier II 2011-12 National Champions); Assistant Hockey Coach, Jesuit Prep College; and Director of Athletic Development at Sportsplex. Cosmo is part of the professional coaching staff leading the new Jr Oilers Developmental Program for Mites at the Ice Training Center in Richardson. To learn more, call 972-680-7825.
Hockey Sen se: Vision , play ma ker, anticipation, plays good position, and is relaxed with puck. Knows where to go to receive a pass. Understands how to utilize line mates strengths and weaknesses on the ice. Shooting Ability or Scoring Ability: Sniper finisher, slap shot, wrist shot, natural goal scorer. Knows where to go to receive a pass or be open up for a scoring opportunity. Competitive and Aggressive: aggressive, tough and respected, intimidating. Character, Leadership and Attitude: Natural leader, a team player, a warrior, a grinder, a maintenance player, good grades, relationship with family/friends/coaches, etc…
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Rachel Rice (Oilers PW A - Lapane) “SCORE!”
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The average lifespan of an NHL hockey puck is 7 minutes. Those that don’t fly into the stands are removed because they warm up from friction and bounce on the ice. Game pucks - chilled to -10° Fahrenheit for maximum performance - are kept in a freezer in the penalty box.
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Allyson Simpson (Alliance 12U AAA - Hennes)
Texas Aces #91 Parker Holdsworth
DSEHC a quick cele after the power play goal
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