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Daily Dish: Ncaa Or Major Junior?
Stephen Heisler • 8 mos. ago David Branch and his gang from the Canadian Hockey League need to get a really good look at the rules regarding NCAA compliance and eligibility. While the NCAA has singled out the CHL, they have elected to turn ...

Best Of The Daily Dish: Dangers Of Depression
Stephen Heisler • 8 mos. ago Today's Daily Dish is going to go a little bit deeper than what is usually seen from the minimal level of intelligence that I'm working with. Unfortunately, this is an issue that ...

Best of the Daily Dish: Drug Free? Prove It
Stephen Heisler • 9 mos. ago The National Hockey League does it. College hockey does it. The International Olympic Committee is famous for it. So why is mandatory drug testing all but the forbidden subject for junior programs across the ...

Best of the Daily Dish: Money Changes Everything
Stephen Heisler • 9 mos. ago Despite popular opinion, I don't have the cool million dollars it would take to acquire a North American Hockey League franchise and fund it for an entire season. That is the kind of money we are talking ...

Daily Dish: Truth in Advertising
Stephen Heisler • 9 mos. ago We got a call today from a very unhappy player; his new junior team promised his parents the moon and delivered an empty pop can. The pictures on the website did not match the facilities delivered. The high tech fitness ...

Daily Dish: Junior Hockey's Ten Commandments
Stephen Heisler • 9 mos. ago Today we wanted to do something a bit different. I have to believe that you all are going to like, and agree, with what you read. #1- Hockey is the #1 Sport. ...

Daily Dish: Help Wanted
Stephen Heisler • 9 mos. ago It is time. JuniorHockey.com is in need of a few more other voices to counter mine. This is a rare opportunity for the right group of writers to step in and take advantage of the years of hard work building the brand into what it ...

Daily Dish: Be Happy
Stephen Heisler • 9 mos. ago If I've learned anything over the years it has been to move forward one day at a time while making the most of every single day. It's been just over five years since the doctors ...

Daily Dish: Monday Mash
Stephen Heisler • 9 mos. ago Every North American Hockey League teams is working their way through the early weeks of December with the same goal in mind; smiles on everyone's face for Christmas. Of the league's 26 teams, there are only a few that appear to ...

DAILY DISH: Emotional Control
Stephen Heisler • 9 mos. ago Like everything, the game of ice hockey continues to evolve. Behavior that was acceptable twenty-years ago is ancient history today. Players and teams that have the proven ability to play a disciplined game ...

Best of the Daily Dish: Muckers, Grinders, & Pantydroppers
Stephen Heisler • 9 mos. ago Role players are part of the game. Nothing excites the fans faster than a big hit that results in a quick goal. It is like a double-shot of excitement. Everybody is happy at the post-game party after a team effort win. Mucker - ...

Daily Dish: Monday Mash
Stephen Heisler • 9 mos. ago With rumors swirling about a sale and relocation of the team to Anchorage, the Kenai River Brown Bears are stomping out those little fires with big win after big win. A crowd of nearly 1,900 crammed into the arena Saturday ...

DAILY DISH: Hockey's Advantage
Stephen Heisler • 10 mos. ago A gentleman from one of the NCAA sports recruiting sites was commenting during a telephone conversation about junior hockey and how it is so much different than the other NCAA sports. It was hard for him to understand ...

Daily Dish: Monday Mash
Stephen Heisler • 10 mos. ago Today's Mash features a team that's literally saving the game in their community and another making a mockery of it in theirs. With Thanksgiving fast approaching, there are several surprising developments found in this week's ...

Daily Dish: Monday Mash
Stephen Heisler • 10 mos. ago Reality has a very strange way of turning dreams into disappointment. A player can dream all he wants about 'making it” within the game, but there's a world of work that needs to be completed before that dream becomes a ...

Daily Dish: My Manifesto
Stephen Heisler • 10 mos. ago Like everything else in the imperfect world, the game continues to evolve, and my personal vision for the game is going to evolve as well. I can only imagine that it does for most of you too. To keep everything in ...

Daily Dish: Monday Mash
Stephen Heisler • 10 mos. ago The scary week is past us as we build up the reserves for Thanksgiving. Christmas is a pretty big deal around our house, and this is the week the decorated trees and lights start making their way from the garage. It's a very ...

Daily Dish: Do's and Don'ts of a Law Enforcement Detention
JuniorHockey.com Staff • 10 mos. ago by Jeronimo Gil You had a great game, went out with some of the team to get something to eat, and now headed home. You had one beer with your nachos, so you aren't drunk. Your phone buzzes and you look down at the text message that pops ...

Daily Dish: Owners' Integrity
Stephen Heisler • 10 mos. ago We often talk about integrity as it pertains to players and coaches. Today we're going to get after the owners. There are two types of team owners; the hobbyist that does it for the love of the game, or in many cases, for the ...

Daily Dish: Monday Mash
Stephen Heisler • 10 mos. ago As we get into the meat and potatoes part of the regular season, there are still a few surprises in the standings. NORTH AMERICAN HOCKEY LEAGUEOne would think that an 8-0-0-1 tear would give the Central Division leading ...

Daily Dish: USPHL Jersey Shore Whalers Lost at Sea
Stephen Heisler • 10 mos. ago That Angel of Death guy has a funny way of spreading the gospel of Richard Gallant and his United States Premier Hockey League. Part of the doctrine includes making a mockery of the North American Hockey League's branded NA3HL with ...

Daily Dish: Developmental Disadvantage
Stephen Heisler • 11 mos. ago When is it good to uproot a college-bound high school sophomore, junior, or senior in the middle of a semester to transfer to another school? It never is. Yet that is exactly what is happening across the ...

Daily Dish: Why Not A Winter Classic Type Event for All?
Stephen Heisler • 11 mos. ago Despite both teams' desire to win the two points, the National Hockey League's Winter Classic has elevated itself to an almost Super Bowl like platform, with no losers, and everybody in the game in on the win. It is just too bad that the ...

Daily Dish: Monday Mash
Stephen Heisler • 11 mos. ago After a week of hospital visits (Abuelo is OK), police reports, and bickering with various insurance companies, getting back to the hockey was beyond refreshing. Well, all the way up to the phone call we got from Louisiana. We'll get to ...

Daily Dish: Cancer in the Family
Stephen Heisler • 11 mos. ago How many times have we heard junior hockey clubs refer to their team as a family? We hear it again and again from coaches as they try to build the team or as the season winds up. How can any junior hockey team model themselves after such a ...

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