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HockeyTrainingPro.com releases two free tips to help hockey players improve their shooting accuracy. (PRWEB) August 28, 2012 HockeyTrainingPro.com is Maria Mountain’s website dedicated to improve the skill of hockey players world-wide. Mountain, who has trained a Stanley Cup winner, recently published a free blog noting crucial advise to help hockey players improve the accuracy of their shot. “There is a lot of free advice on my website,” says Maria Mountain “We provide free...

In celebration of the latest Stanley Cup win, HockeyTrainingPro.com is offering complimentary and gimmick free goalie training tips. Canada (PRWEB) June 26, 2012 Maria Mountain, MSC is the owner of HockeyTrainingPro.com and Revolution Coaching. Her client list includes Olympic Gold medalists Virtue & Moir, Stanley Cup Champion Andy McDonald, and a variety of professional hockey players. With the recent Stanley Cup win bringing attention to the important role goalies play in NHL...

In the quarterfinal of the 2006 Soccer World Cup, England and Portugal played for 90 tense minutes and 30 minutes extra time without a single goal being scored. This led them to a penalty shoot-out; as one by one, players went against the opposing team's goalie. After four shots by each team, Portugal was ahead 2-1. Portugal's star Cristiano Ronaldo shot to English goalkeeper Paul Robinson's left, but Robinson dove right. Portugal scored, won the game, and went on to the semifinal.When...

WASHINGTON, April 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Health Canada, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following products. Consumers should stop using products immediately unless otherwise instructed. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20030904/USCSCLOGO ) Name of Product: Youth and Junior Hockey Sticks, Shafts, and Blades Units: About 67,000 in the United States and 60,000 in Canada...

GREENLAND, N.H., Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Bauer Hockey, the world's leading manufacturer of performance hockey equipment, today announced that New York Rangers goaltender Henrik Lundqvist has joined Bauer Hockey's extensive roster of elite hockey players. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090915/NE76219 ) Lundqvist, who will wear newly designed goal equipment by Bauer Hockey during the upcoming NHL season, will be a featured goaltender in Bauer Hockey's global advertising...

Jussi Jokinen scored in the closing seconds Tuesday to give Carolina a 4-3 win over New Jersey and a 2-2 tie in the Eastern quarterfinals. Joni Pitkanen sent a pass to Dennis Seidenberg who shot with seconds to play. Jokinen, providing a screen on Devils goaltender Martin Brodeur, redirected the puck into the net. The series is tied at two games apiece heading into Thursday's Game 5 in New Jersey. Just before Pitkanen's attempt, Jokinen bumped into Brodeur while skating backward toward the...

The New Jersey Devils have lost backup goalie Kevin Weekes for up to three weeks because of an apparent leg injury, which the team called a lower-body injury. The Devils said Saturday Weekes was injured when his left leg bent awkwardly as he went to his knees to cover the puck in the second-period of Friday's 5-4 overtime victory against Tampa Bay. He was replaced by Martin Brodeur and had to be helped to the locker room by team staff members. You guys probably couldn't hear it, but we could...

The Boston Bruins signed goaltender Tim Thomas to a multiyear contract that will keep him with them at least three years. The deal was locked up less than 24 hours after Thomas recorded his 50th victory this season in a 2-1 win over the Ottawa Senators. The Boston Globe reported that Thomas will earn approximately $5.2 million per year, like record-breaking counterpart Martin Brodeur of New Jersey. On July 1, Thomas was scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent. Thomas turns 35 on April...

Ryan Shannon's goal early in the third period turned out to be the winner for the Ottawa Senators Sunday in a 2-1 victory over the New York Rangers. Shannon fired a wrist shot past New York goaltender Henrik Lundqvist to put Ottawa ahead 1:09 into the period and Senators' goalie Alex Auld kept the Rangers scoreless the rest of the way. Mike Comrie got the other goal for Ottawa, which has won five straight games. Brandon Dubinsky scored for the Rangers. Auld finished with 28 stops and...

Raffi Torres scored twice in a three-goal third period Saturday, leading the Columbus Blue Jackets' 3-1 win over the Florida Panthers. Until their outburst, Columbus was on the verge of being Tomas Vokoun's seventh shutout victim this season, but Torres broke up the shutout bid with his ninth goal at 17:14 of the third. About 90 seconds later, he scored his 10th (unassisted) and at 19:41 Antoine Vermette (14) capped the scoring with an unassisted empty-netter. Goaltender Steve Mason made 22...