He plays ice hockey in Washington D.C. and except for Wayne Gretzky is the greatest athlete ever!!! His Name is Alex Ovechkin.

Ice hockey takes more natural skill than any sport; and played properly is a pleasure to behold. A hockey player must be able to ice skate extremely well, control the puck without actually looking at it, be in top physical condition, shoot with skill, pass with skill, stick handle, check,and be a team player. He must also be able to absorb punishment and dish it out if necessary. Goalies require even more skill; including intense concentration and agility. No other sport requires these many skills. So to name a basketball player as the greatest athlete of all time is a ridiculous joke!!!

tedbarber: better than Guy lefleur, jean Beliveau, gordi howe , henri and maurice richard? Stan Mikita, Bobby Hull, Denis Savard, Larry Robinson, Paul Coffey, and maybe a hundred more? , remember the era these all played in, I seen a lot of these guys play, Ovechkin has a long way to go yet... oh and silly me , I almost forgot Bobby Orr...and all the great Goalies... Ken Dryden being among the best I ever seen

today or ever? Jim Thorpe or maybe every decathlon winner

Secretariat was the greatest athlete of all time...

awesome: And guess where his last race was many an uncashed ticky exists

I saw them too; and they were very good also.

Secretariet was a horse; and as such he does not qualify as the world's greatest human athlete.

tedbarber: So who is your Stanley Cup finalists this season? and when will the Maple leafs really compete?

GT: Penquins and Sharks is my guess

Its kinda strange,, the biggest market, the Yankees of the NHL, and they never seem to compete in the upper echelons of the league for years.Any ideas why?

Too early to tell; but I hope anybody but Penguins or Stars. My dream matchup would be Capitals and Oilers; but I doubt Oilers will be there.

Get in there Stoke! 5 0 50 MY my myyyy Delilahhhh!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/golf/13311206.stm

One of the GREATEST

Go Wales
The dragon slew St George today 19-9

tedbarber: Hockey skills are building element of every player's performance - overall hockey player's performance and quality depends on 3 major parts, which are mutually related.

It is hockey skills, condition and mental strength.

This, above mentioned statement, is very efficient to have always on your mind while practicing or coaching any of many skills.

Ice hockey is builded from huge number of different skills and techniques. We divide them into several major categories and many subcategories:

But one more time, all of them are based on:

* speed
* agility
* strength
* endurance

SKATING

* forward
* backward
* crossover forward
* crossover backward
* stops
* turns
* stopped turn
* start
o straight
o side
* turn-round
* from forward to backward
* from backward to forward

STICK-HANDLING

* dribbling
o short
o wide
o front of the body/aside of the body
* tricks
* stick-checking
o poke-check
o block stick
o lift opponent stick
o laying stick on a ice

SKATING WITH PUCK

* a stick in one hand
* a stick in two hands

All (most of them) above mentioned hockey skills are measurable. So, it is possible to measure and compare each player performance with others. It makes much easier to find out weaknesses and reasons of those.
SHOOTING

* forehand
o wrist shot
+ short
+ long
o snap shot
o slap shot
o aerial high
* backhand
* one timer or one touch shot
* deflection

BLOCKING A SHOT

* standing position
* on one knee
* on both knees
* laying to the shot

PASSING

* forehand/backhand
o wrist
o snap
o flip pass
o one timer or one touch pass
o aerial high pass
* by skate kick
* drop pass

TAKING A PASS

* pulling
* "hard"
* by skate
* by hand

BODY-CHECKING
There is pointless to divide body-checking into some categories, for example by part of the body used for checking, however we can find different ways how to use a body-checking according different game situations.
GAME HOCKEY SKILLS

* Offense

o 1 on 1
There are many ways how to play this situation. It depends on individual player and particular game situation.
o 2 on 1
o 3 on 1
o 3 on 2
o 2 on 2

* Defense

o 1 on 1
There are many ways how to play this situation. It depends on individual player and particular game situation.
o 1 on 2
o 1 on 3
o 2 on 3
o 2 on 2

break outs
middle zone offense
offense zone
fore-checking
middle zone defense
defense zone

Power play

* 5 on 4
* 5 on 3
* 4 on 3
* 6 on 5 and 6 on 4 (playing without goalie)

Penalty Killing

* 4 on 5
* 3 on 5
* 3 on 4

CLASSICS HOCKEY GAME SITUATION
Over-numbering
Doubling
Cycling
Crossing
Switching position and substituting
Face Offs
Shifts
Fights
Penalty Shots
Break away
Rebounds
Front of the net traffic
IMPORTANT PARTS OF HOCKEY SKILLS
Peripheral vision
Faking moves, passing and shooting
Communication players each other on a ice
Personal Defense
GAME SYSTEMS

* with center back
* with left wing back
* other variants
* matching lines
* matching defense lines

Universal Eyes: All (most of them) above mentioned hockey skills are measurable. So, it is possible to measure and compare each player performance with others. It makes much easier to find out weaknesses and reasons of those.

one thing that can't be measured : a players heart and desire to win...

awesome:

cosigned

start soon I think

Best wishes to all.

ketchuplover:

mckinley: many countries representatives were doing it, they were shooting movies, it happened at the last Olympics as well

What a match 6-3 , 3-6 and now 22-21 France in the 3rd set

The Col: now 22-22

Gooooooooo GB Ladies Football Team :)

Canada 2 Great Britain 0

Bolt!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Maroney

Anyone who watched the Olympic Gymnastics high bar final? That was awesome, and with the first Dutch winner in like 80 years.

kudos!

tamed da bears

I hate Jeff Gordon

Skyking:

because?...

Packers!

ketchuplover:
Prediction:
Green Bay 27 San Francisco 21

Brian1971:

49'ers -28
Packers -21

Seahawks & Texans

awesome: Oh yeah, this reminds me.
I have to mail a check to Adrian in California, the 49er fans as my Packers lost the game. Good game and close until the fourth quarter.

The game before it was an amazing game from start to finish, Broncos versus Ravens. I dislike both of them, but it was a great game. Since I was in Denver while it was played, it was not a happy time for the home team fans when the final score occured.

49ers are in. Next game coming up.

Oh crap.. Horrible incident at nationwide Nascar race. I hope everyone is ok.

Jágr is a Bruin! GO BRUINS!

Should be an intense game

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/video/#id=2388984549

Track scoring margin instead of wins,losses,and ties!

Nice to see Jeff Gordon got knocked outta the race in Michigan

Peyton Manning on his record tying 7 TDs

ketchuplover: A few of my fantasy teams were very happy

Seattle Seahawks fans cheer
Seattle NFL fans break records, eardrums as world's loudest crowd


That rumble you heard coming from the Pacific Northwest on Sunday wasn't an earthquake, windstorm or other natural disaster. It was the 68,000-plus fans at Seattle's CenturyLink Field, setting a Guinness World Record for being the loudest-ever crowd. With just over a minute left in the first quarter of the Seahawks game against the 49ers, the roar from the stands registered at 131.9 decibels, which is almost as loud as a Boeing 747. (In the fourth quarter, the crowd unofficially broke its shiny new record, reaching an ear-melting 136.6 decibels.) The buzzkillers at NBC News Health more or less said, "What exactly is the point?," offering a study that says that the home team doesn't really benefit from all of that shouting. It did yesterday, though: The 'Hawks destroyed San Francisco 29-3.

(a)woke Helen Keller and Beethoven

will start on Sunday

currently in rain delay. 38 of 100 mandatory laps are completed

That was really crazy Nascar racing in Bristol