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By Rick Garner CEP, Team Paramedic Arizona Coyotes and Arizona State University

By Toby PalmiscnoEquipment Manager, Bemidji State Bemidji State University participated in the 13th annual Hockey Day in Minnesota.  The Bemidji State men’s team outlasted Michigan Tech on Friday night with a 4-3 overtime win, and the women’s team fell to Minnesota State on Saturday afternoon by a score of 2-1.  Both games played outdoors on […]

Congratulations to all! 2500 Games 2000 Games 1500 Games 1000 Games *Achieved in 2016 500 NCAA Games

By Nate Lapoint, HEM, University of Wisconsin, Jamaal Baribeau, HEM, Clarkson University and Andrew Zagorianakos, HEM, Providence College Nate Lapoint talks with Jamaal Baribeau and Andrew Zagorianakos who joined their teams in Ireland this past November. NL: When did you start planning for your trip to Ireland? NL: How many days was the road trip? […]

By Scott LivingstonB.SC., CAT(C), CSCS, Founder ReconditioningHO As Christmas 2011 was nearing, we were slowly ramping up for the holidays in anticipation of all the wonder in our two and half year- old daughter’s eyes. Santa Clause was still real, and we had already begun the soon to be tradition of hiding the Elf on […]

by Bryan BoyesHead Equipment Manager, Oshawa Generals The Winter Olympics are held for a three-week period of time in the month of February every four years. Little do people know, the journey for Hockey Canada, staff and players, begins much sooner than you may think. The call came in June 2017 from Oshawa Generals owner […]

By Jon Geller, Asst. Athletic Trainer, Toronto Maple Leafs As Athletic Therapists/Trainers, Physiotherapists, and Strength Coaches, our goal is to keep our players on the ice, performing at optimum levels. I believe that movement assessments are valuable in order to offer insight into how each athlete moves in a specific context, and to mitigate potential […]

By Dom Nicoletta, Head Athletic Trainer, Ottawa Senators This past summer the Ottawa Senators hosted a Functional Range Conditioning (F.R.C.) continuing education course. The course was attended by some of the sports medicine staffs and strength and conditioning coaches from Ottawa, New York and Detroit. Health care professionals from Carelton University, University of Toronto and […]

By Dr. Jas RandhawaSports Medicine/Performance Therapy Lead ALTIS email: j.randhawa@altis.world Twitter: @jrsportperform Creating The Process Driven Therapist The ever-changing landscape of High-Performance sport lends itself to be volatile and complex in the best of times. To further compound the issue is the scarcity of time, which in the truest sense becomes a commodity amongst performance […]

By TD ForssHead Athletic Therapist, Edmonton Oilers and Jeff LangHead Equipment Manager, Edmonton Oilers As the 2017-18 regular season was winding down, we began to hear rumors of our team traveling to Europe for an exhibition and possibly a regular season game to start our 2018- 19 season. During the month of May 2018, the […]

By Tony Da CostaHead Equipment Manager, Minnesota Wild The beginning stages of the Minnesota Wild’s new practice facility started long before the brick and mortar were laid. Since the beginning our organization knew it was important to keep everyone that would call the facility home on a daily basis involved TRIA Rink is located in […]