[caption id="attachment_365" align="alignnone" width="4928"] Last year, defenceman Jared Eng led all defencemen on the team with 20 points in 23 games, and is following that up with another strong season, clocking 12 points in 21 games. Image Credit: Brandon Hillier[/caption] With hockey being Canada’s national obsession, many kids grow up dreaming of donning the maple leaf, to one day play for Team Canada. Jared Eng is one of the lucky ones. He has represented his country on the highest stage — not in ice hockey, but in roller hockey at the world championships in Germany. “It’s pretty special,” said Jared.…
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Does the home team advantage exist? Can one estimate the performance trajectory of soccer players? When is the right time to pull a goalie in a hockey game? Tim Swartz, an SFU professor of statistics and actuarial sciences, gave a…
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After four straight losses, the Clan needed a win in the worst possible way, and their Saturday game against Eastern Washington University (EWU) Eagles seemed to be a match made in heaven. Coming into the game, the Eagles had let…
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Saturday night at the Bill Copeland Centre, the Clan served the crowd a now-familiar sight — after netting the first goal of the game, the University of Victoria (UVic) Vikes took control, winning 4–2. But unlike SFU’s last game, where…
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Midway through their game against the Trinity Western Spartans on Thursday night, the Clan were up 1–0; the same score, against the same team, in the same building as the previous week. And just like that game, they wound up…
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The SFU’s men’s hockey team scored the first goal in their Thursday night game against the Trinity Western Spartans at the Langley Event Center, but the game quickly went downhill from there. Clan defenceman Matthew Berry-Lamontagna opened up the scoring…
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With the annual World Junior Championship at a close — Canada having captured gold once again — it’s time to take a look at some of the standout performances of this year’s tournament. It is a great chance for young…
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Over the past few years, there has been a vast amount of ink spilt over the place that fighting has in the modern game of hockey. This never-ending debate is heating up again, after top prospect Connor McDavid broke his…
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It is evident to anyone who watches the game that the heart of the NHL’s player conduct apparatus is ridiculous. Crimes are punished strictly on the basis of outcome rather than intent, creating spacious grays that players often find themselves…
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Over the last few weeks, there have been numerous lawsuits against the CHL — the umbrella company that overlooks the WHL, OHL, and QMJHL, and comprises a total of 60 teams — for its compensation practices. Most notable, perhaps, is…
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