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Feature stories/columns

The June 11 issue of Let's Play Hockey is now available. This edition contains a complete list of tournaments for the 2009-10 season. The paper is available at most hockey shops and arenas. For your convenience, we can mail you a copy. Simply send us an e-mail or call us at 612-729-0023.

 

Below is a sampling of stories from the June 11 issue of Let’s Play Hockey. This edition contains a look ahead to the 2009 NHL Entry Draft and columns by Jack Blatherwick, Kim McCullough, Andrew Vitalis and Wally Shaver.

 

Feeling a Draft

  By Adam Somers

 

Minnesotans making their mark in hockey

  By Loren Nelson

 

Don’t underestimate the simple things

  By Jack Blatherwick

 

One thing you must do this summer to be your best this fall

  By Kim McCullough

 

 

2009 Summer Camps, Schools and Leagues Guide

 

2009 Ms. Hockey Award

Becky Kortum of Hopkins named Ms. Hockey

Ms. Hockey Award down to top five finalists

Minnesota Ms. Hockey Award top 10 finalists announced

 

2009 Senior Goalie of the Year Award

Duluth’s Laura Bellamy nets Senior Goalie of the Year Award

Top five finalists named for Senior Goalie of the Year Award

Senior Goalie of the Year top 10 finalists announced

 

 

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Watch for the next issue of Let’s Play Hockey at your favorite hockey spot on Thursday, July 9. Deadline for ads, hockey articles, feature stories, scores and photos is Monday, July 6.

 

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Let’s Play Hockey wants to publish your hockey stories. From tournament reports, to feature stories on teams, players or coaches, to opinion pieces on the game of hockey, to team photos, to you name it, Let’s Play Hockey always accepts submissions from readers throughout the hockey community. To submit your hockey story, e-mail the editor.

 

 

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Let’s Play Hockey provides media relations duties for the Upper Midwest High School Elite League. Weekly wrap-ups, statistics and standings can be found by clicking here (2007 season here), in each edition of Let’s Play Hockey and at hselitehockey.com (boys) and girlselitehockey.com.

 

 

Past feature stories/columns

  John Russo

How we are doing in the Upper Midwest

Somebody else said it

Golden Rules for Forwards (PDF)

Golden Rules for Defensemen (PDF)

Golden Rules for Goaltenders (PDF)

Russo article archive

 

  Jack Blatherwick

Sprinting: the surest off-ice training to improve skating quickness

Play sports to develop athleticism

Establish your own priorities for offseason training

Blatherwick article archive

 

  Kim McCullough

Get off the ice this summer

What is girls’ hockey speed training all about?

The right kind of coach

McCullough article archive

 

  Andrew Vitalis

Homegrown pros: Danny Irmen & Bryan Lundbohm

A homegrown pro: Wayzata’s J.T. Wyman

A homegrown pro: Roseville’s Brett Hammond

Vitalis article archive

 

  Hal Tearse

Kids speak out

Offseason means offseason

Evaluating players for the next level

Tearse article archive

 

  Kevin Kurtt

From college to the NHL

The state of hockey players

You might be a hockey fan…

Kurtt article archive

 

  Dekes & Dangles

Wild fan taunted for tucking in jersey

Colorblind hockey player keeps going offsides

 

  Dr. Rob LaPrade

The Hockey Doc on Osgood-Schlatter’s syndrome

The Hockey Doc on lateral collateral knee injuries

The Hockey Doc on groin strains and sports hernias

Hockey Doc article archive

 

  Wally Shaver

Will high school hockey play fewer games?

What’s a hockey parent to do?

News and notes from the 2008 NCAA Men’s Frozen Four

Shaver article archive

 

  USHL

USA Hockey honors Fargo coach, goalie

USHL Q&A: Indiana Head Coach Jeff Blashill

Race for playoff positioning heats up

USHL article archive

 

  NAHL

Around the NAHL

Bandits, RoadRunners fight to the finish

One postseason berth still up for grabs

NAHL article archive

 

  MJHL

2008-09 All-MJHL Team announced

Lumberjacks win title, first-round playoffs set

Wildcats stick to developmental plan

MJHL article archive

 

  Elite League

Shattuck captures Nike Bauer NIT title

Minnesota Elite girls win Bauer NIT

Southwest no surprise as Elite League leader

Elite League article archive

 

  Minnesota Hockey

USA Hockey announces comprehensive player recruitment, retention and development program

Goalies must not be shut out from coaching

An outdoor hockey renaissance

Minnesota Hockey article archive

 

  High School

Stars shine the brightest in March

Woodbury: A new power rising in the east

Another NHL star joins the Minnesota high school coaching ranks

High School article archive

 

  Others

A tour of hockey history with the Wild curator

Xposure Tournament now No. 1

Building the Minnesota Wild

Building the hockey pyramid

 

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