Minnesota. It’s called ‘The State of Hockey’ – for good reasons. The University of Minnesota has won five NCAA Men’s Division I Ice Hockey Championships and has been the runner-up eight times. The women’s program has won 6 NCAA Championships. The list of All-Americans, Olympians, and professionals is long. Physiologically, it’s a demanding sport. High-intensity intermittent […]
Visit the website for any management consultancy and you’ll quickly find their white paper on how to transform your organization into an “analytics-driven organization.” That phrase came to mind when I saw a Twitter thread by Dr. Stephen Shea. The audience for those white papers – the prospective “analytics-driven organizations” – are already warm to […]
Not many people would have blamed Freddie Sjogren for waiting. His bosses in the front office may have wondered when they would see some use out of their newest equipment purchase. But any number of simple, reasonable explanations and a lot of conventional wisdom and outside opinions would have reassured them. Three weeks before opening […]
Sports science marches steadily towards increasing individualization and responsive, data-driven decision-making. Meanwhile, key milestones in the return-to-play process remain rigidly formulaic. Time – not function – is still the major consideration for medical approval to return to play. Chris Stackpole joined the New Jersey Devils as Head Physical Therapist / Sports Science Coordinator last summer. […]
An emerging consequence of the growth of sports technology over the last 10 years is the messy proliferation of sports data. Every device and every app captures and creates data by the megabyte to describe each stride, rep and heart beat for every athlete using the system. The most successful products – the ones that […]
Justin Roethlingshoefer used the 1080 Sprint to merge testing and training for on-ice and dry-land work at The Hockey Summit. The data from jump and sprint testing tracked the players’ progression across the six-week camp, with insight at the day-to-day level. Roethlingshoefer performed on-ice testing with the 1080 Sprint every two weeks, with protocols for […]
