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Showing 1 to 20 of 181 for “"Hockey"”.
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Predicting Hockey Success: The Western Hockey League Bantam Draft and Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection
… (Gee, Marshall, & King, 2010). In the Western Hockey League (WHL), players are eligible to be drafted at the conclusion of their second year of bantam hockey – the year they turn 15 years old. In the Ontario Hockey League (OHL), players are eligible to be selected one year later than the WHL – …
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Brand Associations of Minor Hockey Tournaments: Understanding the Rep Hockey Parents' Perspective
Tournaments and other hockey-related activities have been calculated to be a significant driver of tourist dollars for many regions across Canada. The competition to attract teams to participate in tournaments, which benefit the tournament organizers and the communities in which they reside, is …
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Should Girls Play Hockey With Boys? Perspectives From The USA Women's Olympic Hockey Team
… descriptive analysis on USA Women's Olympic hockey team player's perspectives on playing with boys during their developmental years was conducted. Fifteen elite women American hockey players completed a questionnaire about their experiences playing on boys' teams, making the transition to …
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GPS analysis of elite level hockey
… (GPS) to assess activity profiles in elite hockey. Study one established validity and reliability of GPS units (1 and 5 Hz) to assess distance during movement’s common to team sport. Measurement accuracy decreased as speed increased in both straight line and change of direction (COD) …
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Parent-spectatorship in minor ice hockey
… of parental-spectator misconduct at minor hockey games that have received national media attention. To appreciate this social phenomenon in Canadian rinks, it is imperative to grasp the significance of the parent-child relationship to parent-spectatorship and the experienced emotions of …
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Life after hockey : an examination of athletic career transition and the National Hockey League's career transition program
… set out to examine the transitions of National Hockey League (NHL; ice hockey) alumni, as well as the effect ~and effectiveness of their respective career transition program, the Life After Hockey program. Interviews with 17 NHL/program alumni revealed that quality of transition (to post-playing …
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Development of an autonomous robotic air hockey player
Air hockey is a widely played sport in the United States and is expanding to other countries. It is usually played on a frictionless table between two or more people. The dependency of another individual makes it impossible for a person to practice or play alone. An autonomous two-link manipulator …
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‘So proved themselves supreme in women’s hockey throughout the world’: a history of English and British international women’s hockey 1951–2016
Women’s hockey in England was well established by 1951 with an extensive national and international network of associations and federations. The sport was also proudly amateur and the All England Women’s Hockey Association (AEWHA) expected their representatives to uphold that ethos. At the same …
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Positional related injury in elite female field hockey players
… to examine injury patterns in elite female field hockey players, and to identify the injury rates of different playing positions so that preventative measures can be implemented. Based on available research it was hypothesised that goalkeepers and midfielders will have the highest rate of injury. …
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Adult Women's Learn to Play Hockey Experiences: A Case Study
… of women enrolled in an Adult Learn-to-Play Hockey (ALTPH) program in Toronto, Ontario. This case study aimed to identify the barriers and facilitators to participation in hockey and the ALTPH program. Using qualitative research methods, the research project gained in-depth insight to the …
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An Examination of Unwritten Rule Development in Men’s Ice Hockey
… development process did aspiring professional hockey players learn of, as well as consent to, ice hockey’s unwritten rules. How this process occurred was also under examination. While some research had been conducted relative to the development of unwritten rules within sport, little research …
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An Analysis of Minor Hockey Officials and Perceived Organizational Support
… to better understand the attrition of minor hockey. Consequently, the purpose of this quantitative study was to examine the extent to which minor hockey officials perceive organizational support (POS) from the minor hockey system, and to compare POS among minor hockey officials according to …
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Investigating Player Salaries and Performance in the National Hockey League
… predictors of team performance in the National Hockey League (NHL). Additionally, an analysis of goalie statistics is completed in order to determine what, if any, performance measures relate to salary. Data in this research were collected from the 2005-06 season up to the 2010-11 season. Salary …
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Intelligent Visual Servo Control of an Air Hockey Playing Robot
The use of a planar robot manipulator for the air hockey problem allows for a task hierarchy under which end-effector trajectory tracking is the primary task and redundancy resolution is utilized to achieve secondary tasks. The set of secondary objective controllers consists of criteria optimizing …
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A standard impact test procedure for football/hockey shoulder pads
Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2001.
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Effectiveness of grips at minimizing vibrations during field hockey hits
… on the stick during two different field hockey hits, the push and the strike. The results from these experiments showed that the top hand during a hit experiences a higher resonant frequency. During the push the top hand experienced an average resonant frequency of 349.1 Hz, compared to …
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