Tag Archives: Skills Competition

  • Islanders Rookie Ryan Strome Scored A Ridiculous Shootout Goal (Video)

    Islanders Rookie Ryan Strome Scored A Ridiculous Shootout Goal (Video)

    For all you hockey fans out there who have been feeling a little deprived due to the lack of on-ice highlights during these hot summer months, the Islanders’ 2011 first-round draft pick, Ryan Strome, is here to help you get your fix Islanders fans knew that when their team used their fifth-overall pick on the [...]

  • Denis Kulyash Is One Hard Shooting Russian (Video)

    Denis Kulyash Is One Hard Shooting Russian (Video)

    Last weekend it was Zdeno Chara of the NHL’s Boston Bruins who was terrorizing nets and lighting up radar guns with his 105.9 mph shot at the league’s Skills Competition.  One week later his performance would be outdone by Denis Kulyash of the Kontinental Hockey League’s Avangard Omsk. Playing for Team Jagr during the KHL’s [...]

  • Linus Klasen Scores A Spectcular Spin-O-Rama Shootout Goal (Video)

    Linus Klasen Scores A Spectcular Spin-O-Rama Shootout Goal (Video)

    Now where was this move during the NHL All-Star Skills Competition? I simply don’t get it.  Every year the NHL seems to give their Breakaway Challenge a shot and every year the participants seem to disappoint us with their lack of creativity.  After all, how many times can we watch a player scoop the puck [...]

  • NBA To Play GEICO Instead Of HORSE

    NBA To Play GEICO Instead Of HORSE

    Total Pro Sports – It’s all about the cash!!! Well that’s what the NBA thinks because they have just sold the naming rights to “HORSE” a game that will be played in the years NBA All Star Skills competition to “GEICO”. Sports are often made for TV. And TV is made for advertisers. So it [...]