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January 23, 2017
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KNOW NO BOUNDARIES
WHY LOSE FIVE POUNDS when you could lose 30? Why max out your bench press at 150 pounds when 200 pounds is in reach? Why not push yourself beyond your perceived limits? If you ask Karim Corringham, the fitness manager and head trainer at Hyperfit Hockey, one of the best things athletes can do when setting fitness goals, be they as part of New Year’s resolutions or mid-season training programs, is to try and push their limits. “I really wish people would have more outrageous goals,” he said. “I really wish somebody would come to me and say, ‘Listen I’m 14, I bench 105 pounds. By the end of our six months together I want to hit 220.’ It’s going to be a ridiculous goal to get to, but it is…
THE COUNTDOWN
TO ATTEND A hockey game as a fan is to chase a high. Goals help a team win, of course, but they’re more than that. The moments wouldn’t mean as much if they weren’t so fun, dressed up with arena-rocking horns and trademark tunes. Some teams, of course, present the pageantry better than others. Which have the NHL’s top goal songs? I took a (highly subjective) crack at ranking them. Criteria that mattered: (a) Is the song catchy, upbeat, dance worthy? (b) Is the song choice fresh and original as opposed to a cliche? (c) Is the song the right kind of annoying, as in annoying to opponents? Here we go. BLACKHAWKS “CHELSEA DAGGER” BY THE FRATELLIS Checks off every box. Synonymous with the team, easy to sing, and its “do…
THE JOKE’S ON ON US
IT STARTED AS a joke between two friends, the player and the entrepreneur. One had carved out a pro career in the British League after four years at Bowling Green. The other was a successful businessman back home in Calgary, where the two grew up. Despite their divergent paths, the career trajectories of native Calgarians Todd Kelman and Steve King led them to the same unlikely place: Cardiff, Wales, where the pair have helped revive a moribund franchise and turn it into one of the Elite Ice Hockey League’s most successful teams in just two years. Along the way, Kelman and King always kept in touch, playfully mixing business with pleasure when it came to hockey. “Every time I would see Steve, he would always say, ‘Listen, why don’t you find a…
GREAT THE EXPANSION
YOU’D SIMPLY HAVE MORE HOCKEY AND ALL DILUTED. WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK IT’S GOING TO DO TO THE SPECTACLE? – Clarence Campbell EXPANSION HAS ALWAYS been a sensitive issue throughout the history of the NHL. That was evident when commissioner Gary Bettman announced the league’s decision to expand to 31 teams for 2017-18. Supporters were excited the NHL would be the first major sports league to put a franchise in Las Vegas, which would help balance the Western and Eastern Conferences, while skeptics declared it would become another financial black hole. But what many fans don’t remember is the uproar against the NHL when the league decided to double in size for 1967- 68 from six to 12 teams – The Great Expansion, as it has since become known. The…
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