Professional Hockey Players

Another one of the most influential hockey players of all time is Bobby Orr. Orr was born in 1948 in Parry Sound, Canada (Orr). Bucko McDonald, a former NHL defenseman in the 30's and 40's, coached the young Bobby. He believed he could be a great defenseman with lots of speed and high stick skills as well. This turned out to be one of the beet moves for Bobby's career, as Orr played ten seasons in the NHL. He played nine years with the Bruins, and his final year in Chicago. He wished to play longer if it wasn't for his knees giving out on him, as he injured them both early in his NHL career. Nevertheless, Orr was arguably called the greatest defenseman of all time for what he did in both sides of the ice.

“Sidney Crosby has the 4th Best points per game in NHL history. He has also won every possible individual and team award that can be won before the age of 25. Crosby makes the players around him better (kunitz and dupuis). Crosby is always improving and is good at many little things such as faceoffs, shootouts, and he always is a good all around player being defensively responsible and his plus minus demonstrates this.” Says a user from debate.org. Is Sidney Crosby still the best? It’s a yes or no question and there is many debates.

Millions of dollars in their pockets could be a dangerous idea. They may not be able to withstand the pressures of professional sports and spend all their money on drugs and alcohol. What they do not understand is that once they are in that spotlight, there is no turning back. Young athletes are exciting to see in professional sports, but it makes you think of what they actually went through and handle in everyday life as a teenager. In addition, Isamu Bae says ?Professional scouts must attempt to decipher the maturity level of players, and for athletes in their teens, it is nearly impossible to figure out.? Growing up, the time a child would have playing with his friends or going to the movies, would not be there like for any normal kid. They made the sacrifice to play sports rather than have a social life and be a regular kid.

Hockey, a sport who’s premier league is the NHL. The NHL, over time has had its fair share of players who dominated the game. Some of these players were just “too good”. Examples of this are Mario Lemieux, Gordie Howe, and the Great one, Wayne Gretzky. Today, there are a lot of great players in the league, sadly to go down in history in any sport you need to be at the top of your time. In current days we see plenty of good, young players, who really contribute to the league but some of the older players who have established their name to everyone are the only ones who have really put themselves in the history books. Today I’m writing this article to talk about two players, Sidney Crosby and Alex Ovechkin. The two players are considered the

He shoots he scores! The history of hockey has changed over time. There are many good players that wouldn't be as good if these changes wouldn't have changed.

Blake also breaks up fights to prevent an injury of one of his teammates. Lastly, Blake never retaliates when he is slashed or somebody says something hurtful to him. One reason why Carl, from the Oilers should be awarded most valuable player is because he is an overall better player. Carl has more goals and assists than Blake. Carl is also a tremendous skater and is much faster than Blake. Unfortunately for Carl, he is an extremely immature player. Carl has over 50 penalties and he also swears at referees during the game if the ref makes a bad call “he will not be shy about pronouncing his feelings” (Rosengren 139). Carl has an extremely short temper and because of this he gets into lots of fights, and will punch other players. The most valuable player award is awarded to only one player. The two contestants for the award are very different types of hockey player. Blake is a very mature and is truly the captain of his team. Carl, is a very talented player and scores lots of goals but he gets lots of penalties, which hurts his team. The scorekeeper will have a very difficult decision; will he choose Blake or

A rookie NHL All-Star, the number one overall pick, an 18 year old from Arizona, and the future of the NHL, number 34 of the Toronto Maple Leafs Auston Matthews is fifth overall in total goals this season. Auston Matthews was born in San Ramon, California on September 17, 1997 and at two months old, moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. To start, his Uncle had season tickets to then, Phoenix Coyotes games, now Arizona Coyotes, where Auston went to his first hockey game when he was three years old and fell in love with the sport. He first started hockey at age five and was once better at baseball than he was at hockey. He was good baseball because he had good eye-hand coordination and hitting was his strength. Anyhow, there weren't

For Werenski, his career began at a young age when he started to play hockey at the age of 4. As he got older and his play developed, he was on Belle Tire and had 8 goals and 20 assists in only 35 games and that is only the beginning (Powers). He later went on and won a national championship with Belle Tire in 2011

Tyron Gray Mr. Jones English 101 November 3 2015 Rhetorical Analysis Even though they are stars there people to On October 28,2015 Wednesday night at 7:00 the Kansas city, Mo Royals (MLB team) played in the world series for the 2nd time in 29 years, this was a big thing for Kansas city but little did the fans know something even bigger happen that night. Right before the game that same day, Pitcher Edinson Volquez father Daniel Volquez died in the Dominican Republic from heart problems. The thing about it was the whole team knew about this tragic death but his own son Edinson. It was not that the team didn’t want to tell him but by the wife's & family's request they didn't want anyone to tell Edinson until after the game. They even asked the

Pernell Karl Subban ( P.K Subban) was born and raised in Toronto. Born May 13 1989. He had 4 other siblings: Jordan, Natasha, Malcom, Nastassia. His brothers also made it to the NHL (Jordan Subban is no longer playing in the NHL).His father Karl and his mother Maria both immigrated to Canada when they were around 11 years old(they were not in a relationship at the time).His mother was living in Montserrat, a little island in the Antilles and his father moved from Jamaica to Sudbury, Ontario. Growing up, Subban was good friends with the first overall pick in the 2009 NHL Entry Draft, John Tavares (captain of the New York Islanders).Subban spent his junior career with the Belleville Bulls of the Ontario Hockey League

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The Boston Celtics current roster has as average age of 24 years old, with more than half of that roster having been in the league for less than four seasons. It’s safe to say the Celtics are teeming with youth and energy. Leading this group of young guns is a tenacious 21 year old point guard entering his second season with the C’s.

When most individuals were five years old, there was an adult to watch over them and tell them what is wrong and what is right, but when someone is an adult they must take the responsibility upon themselves to make their own choices in life. This concept should apply to athletes and the sports organizations that they compete for. At a professional level, most athletes are considered to be an adult by the United States because they are above the age of 21 years old. Most athletes are adults, therefore they are

Condon has won his first four games in the League, including the Canadiens' 6-2 victory at the Calgary Flames on Friday. The 25-year-old rookie started his second game in a row in place of Carey Price, who is out for a week because of a lower-body injury.

Growing up, there are countless young boys, who have the dream of someday being a professional football or baseball player. Going outside and letting the imagination of being on the big stage and making the final pitch to win the World Series or the final Hail Mary throw to win the Super bowl. As a young kid, the dream of one day being the best and be paid to play a sport they grew up loving and playing. Although the sports of football and baseball are both very popular, there are a substantial amount of differences between