Ivan Provorov and Kevin Hayes each fired slap shots on goal.
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Slap Shots Washington's 20-game streak of scoring in the third period ended.
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Slap Shots Pittsburgh won for just the second time in eight home games.
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SLAP SHOTS The Rangers host the Penguins in their season finale on April 9.
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Slap Shots Rangers forward Kevin Hayes was a healthy scratch for the second consecutive game.
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SLAP SHOTS Devils wing Tuomo Ruutu returned after missing three games with a lower-body injury.
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SLAP SHOTS Dallas defenseman John Klingberg left in the first period because of a lower-body injury.
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Slap Shots Jordan Binnington's nine playoff road wins are the most by a rookie goaltender in N.H.L. history.
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Slap Shots Rangers defenseman Frederik Claesson will be out for two to three weeks with an upper-body injury.
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Johns made his presence known with a few big hits, a blocked shot and a couple of slap shots.
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Slap Shots Rangers defenseman Kevin Klein was a late scratch because of illness and was replaced by Adam Clendening.
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Two Johnny Boychuk slap shots set up Barzal's game-tying goal with 6:20 left in the second period.
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Phil Kessel, on one of his typical slap shots, and Justin Schultz, on a power play, added goals in the third.
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Tim Webb, a special assistant to the equipment manager, took Lundqvist's place in goal, bravely deflecting slap shots from highly trained professionals.
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SLAP SHOTS Panthers center Vincent Trocheck returned after missing almost a month with a foot injury and gave his teammates an emotional boost.
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The speed of every pitch in a baseball game is posted on a scoreboard, so why can't NHL arenas do it for slap shots?
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Both came on slap shots from the left point that beat Markstrom on his glove side, giving Kempny the first multi-goal game of his career.
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SLAP SHOTS Doug Weight, an Islanders assistant coach and assistant general manager, took part in the pregame on-ice ceremony honoring the 2006 Stanley Cup champions.
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Slap Shots Vegas put Tomas Tatar and Tomas Nosek in place of David Perron and Oscar Lindberg … The Jets have not lost consecutive games this postseason.
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STRIVR has created a goalie simulator, a chance for fans to put on a headset and stand in-net while hockey pros pepper them with slap shots.
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Baseball fans will be able to see someone slide into first from any angle and hockey players will be able to perfect their slap shots using analytics.
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After Point put Tampa Bay ahead, Kucherov and Stamkos scored on the power play in a span of 2:35 by ripping slap shots over Devils goaltender Keith Kinkaid.
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ABOUT THE WILD (37-13-6): Defenseman Jonas Brodin inched closer to a return from his fractured finger by taking slap shots for the first time during Wednesday's practice.
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The Blackhawks won the 2394 Stanley Cup, their first championship in 221 seasons, behind Mikita, along with Hull and his blistering slap shots on left wing and the brilliant goalie Glenn Hall.
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Slap Shots Blues defenseman Vince Dunn departed with 8:35 left in the first after getting hit in the face by a Brenden Dillon shot, forcing St. Louis to mix and match five defensemen.
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They are documenting the slap shots and the post-practice speeches, but are also trying to peel back the layers of a long-existing hockey subculture in one of the world's most mysterious nations.
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Now, though, Seattle, which has pined for a replacement on the hardwood for 10 years, will finally have a new squad to root for — but it will play on ice and specialize in slap shots, not slam dunks.
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Known for one of the most dangerous slap shots in hockey history, MacInnis was an even better playmaker, and though he only won a single Norris Trophy, he finished in the top eight in votes 10 other times, including five top-three finishes.
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Slap Shots Vegas is aiming to be the first franchise in a major North American professional league to win a title in its first season since the 1950 Cleveland Browns, who entered the N.F.L. as a fully formed team after four seasons in the A.A.F.C.
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The Rangers made the playoffs only four times during Bathgate's years, though they played in a six-team league, but he pressed on, a graceful skater and a superb puck-handler and passer who had one of hockey's hardest slap shots and a highly accurate wrist shot.
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The game was scoreless after two periods despite Vegas rolling up a 27-12 edge in shots on goal, including 18-0 to start the second period before Fleury had to stop back-to-back slap shots by Anze Kopitar and Tyler Toffoli on a power play.
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A year later, his book "Over the line: wrist shots, slap shots, and five-minute majors" published more insight into inside stories and anecdotes from his career.
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Hockey players tend to telegraph larger, more forceful actions such as slap shots or body checks. Telegraphing is not avoided as it is hoped that the forcefulness of the action is great enough to overcome its predictability.
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Fourteen teams took part. The teams were made of skaters from many different disciplines and styles of roller skating. There were six artistic roller skating teams: Three Blondes And A Baldy, Wheeled Wonders, Roller Rockets, Angels, Fab Four, and Blue Sherbert. There were two roller hockey teams: Pirates (quads) and Slap Shots (inlines).
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Consequently, while many players are renowned for their wrist shots (e.g. Alexei Kovalev, Joe Sakic, Teemu Selänne, Pavel Bure, Paul Kariya) or slap shots (heavy claps) (e.g. Zdeno Chára, Al MacInnis, Bobby Hull, Brett Hull, Shea Weber, Sheldon Souray), few players are known for exceptional snap shots. Among the players who often score on snap shots are Joe Sakic, Teemu Selänne, Steven Stamkos, Alexander Ovechkin, Ilya Kovalchuk and Phil Kessel.
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These curves made slap shots behave very erratically, and in an era in which goalies did not wear masks, this eventually became an unacceptable danger. By 1967, the NHL began to limit the amount of curve a stick blade could legally have. In the NHL today, the legal limit is 19 mm, or of an inch. Much like the shaft's flex, a blade's shape is a very important characteristic of a stick's performance.
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There are three primary variables in blade design: curve, face angle, and toe. The curve refers to the basic amount the blade curves from toe to heel, as well as the part of the blade where that curve is located. A "toe curve" means that the curve is concentrated near the toe of the blade, and it is usually preferred by forwards, who seek better puckhandling and more accurate wrist shots. A "heel curve" is generally better for slap shots, and is thus used more by defencemen.
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The Slap Maxwell Story (sometimes seen in print as The "Slap" Maxwell Story) is a sitcom broadcast in the United States by ABC as part of its 1987–88 lineup. It starred Dabney Coleman as "Slap" Maxwell, an egocentric sportswriter for a newspaper called The Ledger, somewhere in the American Southwest. The Ledger is an old-fashioned newspaper, and Slap is an old- fashioned man, who composes his "Slap Shots" column on a typewriter. Despite the newly litigious environment of journalism, Slap insists on filling his column with rumor and innuendo, which draws lawsuits and frequently results in Slap's termination.
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Until the early 1960s, hockey stick blades were typically not curved. However, in the late 1950s, New York Rangers center Andy Bathgate began experimenting with "breaking" his stick blades to impart a curve, which he found made his slap shots behave in highly erratic ways. Soon after Chicago Black Hawks forwards Stan Mikita and Bobby Hull stumbled onto the "broken blade", and subsequently began asking their stick manufacturers to create sticks with pre-curved blades. Soon after, much of the NHL, and Hull in particular, became a proponents of the "banana blade", or stick with extreme amounts (often up to ) of curve in the blade.
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Commonly, defencemen seek stiffer flex shafts, as their greater stiffness imparts more force on slap shots and improves stick-checking. Forwards will commonly seek more flexible shafts, as they require less force to bend and are thus better suited to create quick and accurate wrist shots, as well as improving passing and stickhandling. Flex is also correlated to player strength; stronger players will often prefer stiffer flexes, as they have a sufficient amount of strength to fully bend (and thus maximize potential energy) using such shafts, whereas younger players and players with less strength will generally have more success using more flexible shafts which they are capable of bending to their optimal degree.
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