10/27 Do Now

A strong presentation, can raise your expectations during it, and makes the other people around you influenced by your confidence.  Asking questions helps to engage your audience, giving away free items, and making eye contact. 

Better Skates?

If you are just learning to play hockey, you will know that you are nervous each time you step on the ice.  What if there were something to reveal some of that anxiety.  Jeffrey Azzolin, an engineer from Waterloo University of Ontario, has a solution.  After he saw that some of the skates on the market say that they will boost your power on ice, he made a spring loaded blade, that will increase your speed and prevent injuries.  Players in the area of Waterloo and an NHL veteran have given their approval of the new technology.





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Skating Toward the Future

After many ideas from companies all over the hockey business, finally there seems to be a skate that is one step further than the rest.  The Bauer Supreme Totalone MX3 Skate has it all; less break in time, flexible, but controlled ankle movement, and so much more.  The skates provide new T shaped lacing holes letting players have the most support amongst their feet.  Lightweight technology helps a player be one of the best on the ice.  The most important part of the game has just gotten even better.

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Player Tracking

When playing a sport, have you ever felt that when you look at your stats, they do not add up to your performance.  For example, in football you play Middle Linebacker, you are in on every play whether it be breaking up the pass, get the men down, etc.  But your points against ratio is poor; well this is what it is like for hockey players and their plus/minus ratio.  A plus/minus is your goals while on ice ratio; when your team scores, it goes up, when you concede, it goes down.  So what if your coach could see what you did on a play ever time you concede or score.  This is why the NHL will be likely introducing player tracking into the coaches arsenal.  There have been countless times where I do all I can on a play, then once the team rushes back down the ice again, while I am at the end of my shift, they score.  My coach will scold the players when sometimes we do not deserve it.  That is when it comes in handy.  The coach could estimate the distance traveled and see how hard you worked, and critique it all.


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