Each man-game lost to injury costs a National Hockey League team an average of $35,000 in salary paid to a player who cannot play. This adds up to $7.6 million and 10 points over the course of a season. Eight teams in the National Hockey League lost fewer than 150 man-games to injury in the […]
Tommy Henriksson is a coach and sports scientist at Umea Performance Center. He is also completing his doctorate at Umea University, where he is examining the physical requirements for success in women’s ice hockey. In the course of that work he has delved into the role that the culture and institutions of the sport have in long-term athlete […]
Researchers at the University of Guelph are studying the effect that three different hydration states have on ice hockey goalies’ lateral movements. Goalies make reactive movements in response to player and puck positioning to cover the best angle on shots and make saves. There is little research to date on the relationship between hydration, force production, power production and […]
