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		<title>Book Review: Fighting the Good Fight</title>
		<link>http://minorhockeylife.com/2011/12/book-review-fighting-the-good-fight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 10:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[In the Stands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adam proteau]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fighting in NHL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hockey books]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fighting the Good Fight:  Why On-Ice Violence is Killing Hockey by Adam Proteau
 Book Review by Sheryl Normandeau (CALGARY, AB)
 
A LONG-TIME HOCKEY COLUMNIST with The Hockey News, Adam Proteau isn’t afraid to express his views in print, online, or in the many television appearances he has made on shows such as Off the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Travel Tips for Hockey Players</title>
		<link>http://minorhockeylife.com/2011/12/travel-tips-for-hockey-players/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 16:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Sheryl Normandeau, Calgary, AB
WHETHER IT&#8217;S IN THE TEAM BUS, in a caravan of vehicles, or on an airplane, travel is a necessary part of the sport of hockey.  Keeping young hockey players healthy and ready to play the game they love can be a challenge on the road – no matter if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Hockey Career, at What Cost?</title>
		<link>http://minorhockeylife.com/2011/11/hockey-at-what-cost/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[In the Stands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Off the Ice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hockey agents]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hockey coaches]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MJHL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neepawa Natives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sheldon Kennedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Danton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Simmons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theo Fluery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Valerie Bean (Pickering, ON)
REVELATIONS OF SEXUAL ABUSE IN SPORTS have come to the forefront in the past few years, but the subject hit close to home when I read personal accounts by Sheldon Kennedy (2006), Theo Fleury (2009), and Steve Danton’s story as told by Toronto Sun sports columnist Steve Simmons (2011).
For a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing the Line</title>
		<link>http://minorhockeylife.com/2011/10/crossing-the-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[In the Stands]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Off the Ice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crossing the Line]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Laura Robinson]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minor hockey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Play the Game]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contributed by Laura Robinson (Toronto-based journalist)
Thank you to journalist Laura Robinson, author of Crossing the Line: Violence and Sexual Assault in Canada&#8217;s National Sport, who permitted Minor.Hockey.Life. to reproduce this article, she wrote for Play the Game, 2002.
In her correspondence with MHL, Laura told us of her reasons for writing about this disturbing, but important topic. 
It is out of print now, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Letting go: A hockey parent&#8217;s POV</title>
		<link>http://minorhockeylife.com/2011/07/543/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 15:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[justin sefton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nhl draft]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Debby Sifton of Thunder Bay, ON, shares her OHL draft experience with MHL.
At the end of June 2011, Debby Sefton experienced firsthand the excitement of having her hockey-playing son Justin Sefton was drafted by San Jose Sharks.  In conversation with this hockey parent from Thunder Bay, Ontario, we discuss school and hockey, scholarships, and her reaction the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legitimate Excuse for Failure: #3</title>
		<link>http://minorhockeylife.com/2011/03/legitimate-excuse-for-failure-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 16:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Off the Ice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Ice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future pro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goalie]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excuse # 3 – The scouts never saw me and I was overlooked.
THERE ARE MANY EXAMPLES of NHL players who made it in spite of being overlooked in the NHL and in some cases the Major Junior Draft. Clearly scouting is not an exact science and many athletes are overlooked. But this is not an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legitimate Excuse for Failure: #2</title>
		<link>http://minorhockeylife.com/2011/03/legitimate-excuse-for-failure-2/</link>
		<comments>http://minorhockeylife.com/2011/03/legitimate-excuse-for-failure-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Mar 2011 10:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Off the Ice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Personal Essays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[future prod goalie schools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goalie development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goalie skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[minor hockey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Legitimate reasons for failure, part ii of iii by former NHL goaltender Steve McKichen. ]]></description>
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		<title>Legitimate Excuse for Failure: #1</title>
		<link>http://minorhockeylife.com/2011/03/legitimate-excuses-for-failure-excuse-1-of-3/</link>
		<comments>http://minorhockeylife.com/2011/03/legitimate-excuses-for-failure-excuse-1-of-3/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Off the Ice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To have the ultimate result of making the NHL you must systematically and with vigor identify all potential issues that could derail your career. Once each area is identified and addressed you are left with only one valid excuse for failure. You weren’t good enough.”]]></description>
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		<title>The Lowdown on Carbohydrates and Proteins for Young Players</title>
		<link>http://minorhockeylife.com/2011/01/the-lowdown-on-carbohydrates-and-proteins-for-young-hockey-players/</link>
		<comments>http://minorhockeylife.com/2011/01/the-lowdown-on-carbohydrates-and-proteins-for-young-hockey-players/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Jan 2011 15:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Editor</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Nutrition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[healthy eating for hockey players]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Statistics have shown that a professional ice hockey player can skate up to four kilometers during a game—most of it at nearly full-burst, with intensity levels peaking while moving a puck or playing defense.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Fear in Competition</title>
		<link>http://minorhockeylife.com/2010/10/fear-in-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 18:29:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order for anything to be successful, under pressure, you have to practice it in situations of low pressure as well as situations of high pressure. This I believe is the process of mental training and the integration of perfect practise makes perfect.]]></description>
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