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April 1, 2013
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PRO TIPS
WITH DANIEL TKACZUK DRILL: SHOOTING This will work on improving your scoring touch around the goal crease. Pick pucks off the goal line while skating back and forth above the obstacle cones. Apply fakes while stickhandling and moving aggressively with lateral pushes to open up the far side of the net to score. PRO TIP: Try using your inside edges to skate around the cones. Also practise getting the puck upstairs in tight, so you can score over sprawling goaltenders. Scan the rink with your Digimarc mobile app to watch the Pro Tips video PRESENTED BY: exclusively at…
SHOOTING STAR DREAMS OF L.A.
TANNER PEARSON COULDN’T HELP but chuckle when asked to describe what his Manchester Monarchs teammate, Tyler Toffoli, is like away from the rink. “He’s kind of that giddy guy in the room, he always has a smile on his face,” Pearson said. And then he paused for a second. “It’s more of a smirk.” And even a smirk is not an expression permanently glued to Toffoli’s face. He was a first round talent, but slid all the way to 47th overall in 2010. The Los Angeles Kings arguably only got Toffoli due to concerns about conditioning. The Scarborough, Ont., native surely wasn’t under the radar – he was fresh off 79 points in 65 games with Ottawa of the Ontario League that season – so when the topic of draft day comes…
CAPITAL COLLAPSE
2010 PLAYOFF LETDOWN The Capitals win the Presidents’ Trophy as the NHL’s top regular season team, but can’t solve the Montreal Canadiens and lose in the first round of the playoffs. 2011 NOT ENOUGH GREEN Star D-man Mike Green suffers serious head and groin injuries and plays just 81 games between 2010 and 2012, tallying only 11 goals and 31 points over that span. ROSTER RESHAPING In the 2011 off-season, the Caps remake their roster by signing four veterans to UFA contracts. Only one of them – Joel Ward – remains a Capital. GOALIE CAROUSEL Braden Holtby seizes Washington’s starting goalie job in the 2012 playoffs. He is their third No. 1 netminder in two seasons and struggles early in the 2012-13 campaign. 2012 SEE YA, SEMIN Sniper Alexander Semin, once thought to be a Caps cornerstone, leaves to sign with the…
TLUSTY’S LONG WAIT IS OVER
TALK ABOUT BEING IN THE RIGHT PLACE at the right time. The Carolina Hurricanes’ Jiri Tlusty couldn’t ask for a better situation. Tlusty is skating on the left side with center Eric Staal and right winger Alexander Semin, a trio some are calling the ‘SST Line.’ Whatever the name, Tlusty is making the most of it. “I just go out there, try to do the simple things and do my job,” he said. “It’s fun to play with players like that.” How much fun? Tlusty, who scored a career-high 17 goals in 79 games last season, had 10 in 21 games this year with four two-goal games. Dependable in his own zone, he joined Staal and Semin among the NHL plus/minus leaders. At one point, the three were tied for first…
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