Could this new offensive philosophy change ultimate?
Laura Cincotta contributed to this article.
“You guys wanna see something new? Pass me that empty pizza box.”
A novice’s early attempts to describe Hex–and someone actually saved it for posterity in their garage. Photo credit: Francesco Ricci Bitti
I was in Italy for a fun reunion tournament, during a break between games with my old teammates on Canieporci Imola. As I started sketching an ultimate field and seven dots on a greasy cardboard pizza box, I saw puzzled looks around me. The seven dots were not in a line. This was neither vertical nor horizontal. The dots were scattered around the field if you were to connect them, you would see a polygon. A polygon that nature knows well: a hexagon, the bestagon!
How Red Wings’ newcomers can help team improve in 2021
Updated Jan 09, 2021;
Posted Jan 09, 2021
Bobby Ryan will play a top-six role and help the Red Wings on the power play. (Dan Mannes/Detroit Red Wings)
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The Detroit Red Wings could have as many as seven new players in the lineup Thursday when they open the season.
The acquisitions of forwards Bobby Ryan, Vladislav Namestnikov and Mathias Brome, defensemen Marc Staal, Troy Stecher and Jon Merrill, and goaltender Thomas Greiss provide the Red Wings with more NHL-quality players than they had during a disastrous 2019-20 season when they were buried in the league’s basement.
Team Canada held its first practice inside the Edmonton bubble on Friday.
At the end of Friday s practice, their first inside the Edmonton bubble, Team Canada gathered at one end of the ice and players were told to look up for a special message. Moments later, Oilers captain Connor McDavid, who won a gold medal at the 2015 World Juniors in Toronto, appeared on the video board. There s nothing more special than winning a gold medal on Canadian soil so hopefully you can defend it and do Edmonton and do Canada proud, McDavid told the group.
He then proceeded to announce the team s leadership group. Lethbridge centre Dylan Cozens and Vancouver defenceman Bowen Byram, both returning players, will be alternates while forward Kirby Dach, on loan from the Chicago Blackhawks, will be captain. It was only a few months ago that Dach helped the Blackhawks eliminate McDavid s Oilers inside the Edmonton bubble. McDavid noted that Dach is going to be a special player.
The Russian Five Airs on PBS Tonight; Tells the Story of the Detroit Red Wings Russian Stars wrif.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wrif.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Dec 16, 2020
Acclaimed hockey coach,
Scotty Bowman, reflects on one of his most defining moments of his time on the ice. In his first interview since the premiere of
The Russian Five – and before its debut on PBS – Coach Bowman reflects back on the legacy and foundation he helped build in Detroit, and what he says he learned from being a part of this incredible moment in sports history. Watch on Detroit Public TV Channel WTVS 56.1 on December 17 at 9pm ET.
Read the full transcript
Fred Nahhat As we celebrate the broadcast premiere of the Russian Five film on your PBS station, a perfect time to bring in the coach, Scotty Bowman, for a great conversation about hockey and this event. Twenty-five years ago, the Russian Five first went on the ice coach, time flies.