How much does your season cost your team? $1,500?, $2,500? $5,000? or even $6,000 for one season of hockey?
How about putting a small percentage of that towards 40 seasons of play for the kids?
Kilmer Elementary school in PortCoquitlam is in dire need of a new playground for their present and future students attending from [...]

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Ruby Lypps Covering The Point - no subtly there!

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What makes one persons slapshot better than another? Well, if we take” aim” out of the equation then it comes down to two things; stick-on-puck time and recoil time. increase the two of those and you end up with greater velocity on your shot. So says the results of a study examining the [...]

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“Go to the net!” your coach screams. “Go to the net!” your team mates scream. It causes traffic in front, and screens the goalie, and you get a rebound and you can pop one in, BUT you may also get a cross check in the upper back, or a butt end in the ribs, or [...]

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Hockey is fast, it is physical, it is adrenalin charged. It provides plenty of opportunity to get under the skin of your opponent either through verbal jabs, strong shoulders on the boards or the “coincidental” hits on the ice during a non-contact game. There are also plenty of ways to retaliate if it’s your [...]

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The 3rd Annual MOES 4 A CURE Fundraiser for Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation begins in November.
In honour of a teammate’s 4-year-old daughter who was diagnosed with type-1 (insulin dependent) diabetes, The 16 Guys Named Moe Hockey Club kicked off an annual November Fundraiser in 2005 for Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF) — the leading charitable funder [...]

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Today marks the official release date of Howard Shapiro’s new children’s illustrated book, “Hockey Days.” Howard will be making an appearance here on Beer League Hockey sharing the stories behind the deals of promoting the book with Fury Sports and Tom Cochrane and all of the highs and low involved with self publishing. [...]

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We’ve all heard the stories of how some athletes have been hospitalized due to an infection from dirty gear. Ed Belfour, Joe Thornton, Mikael Renberg, Barry Trotz just to name a few. But an infection from dirty hockey gear is one of those things that happens to someone else, so we don’t worry about. Well [...]

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Not since the sequel of Slap Shot has a hockey movie been so anticipated; and what happened to Slap Shot II Breaking The Ice? Straight to video. One can only hope that the combination of Mike Myers’ comic brilliance and being a hockey fanatic can give this movie a fighting chance.
Written by lifelong Leafs [...]

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No it’s a not a euphemism for…that. It’s a fun little ditty by North America’s favourite All-Hockey band;The Zambonis.

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