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Getting to know Winny Brodt Brown
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- Last Updated on Thursday, 06 December 2012 18:42
Winny Brown (Brodt) has been playing for the Minnesota Whitecaps for eight years. Nearly a decade since the Whitecaps inaugural season in 2004-05, Winny has worked hard to enjoy many successes in both her playing and professional careers. In 2005, she co-founded the Minnesota Jr. Whitecaps – an offseason hockey program for elite high school hockey players in the state – with Chris Peterson, the Breck girls’ head coach. Currently Winny works as a sales rep for Proguard Sports, is a group fitness instructor at Lifetime Fitness and owns Os Hockey Training, an all-female hockey training program.
Fehr has painted locked-out NHL players into a corner
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- Last Updated on Friday, 16 November 2012 20:40
By Doug Johnson
Let’s Play Hockey
NHL Players Association boss Donald Fehr has come to the place and time in the labor negotiations in which he needs to accept the major portion of the NHL’s offer. There are still unresolved issues that can be agreed to quickly, but the realization is that 50/50 revenue split is now a given.
The players have now missed their third paycheck. Their first check was due on Oct. 15, followed by Oct. 30, and then on Nov. 15. They receive 13 checks during the season. They have now lost 23 percent of their salary for the 2012-13. When they miss their Nov. 30, check, which they will, they will have lost 31 percent of their pay which cannot be made up.
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Beating the odds: Jason Zucker
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- Last Updated on Sunday, 27 May 2012 23:31
By Peter Knutson
Let’s Play Hockey
The odds of making it into the pros today are well over one in a million. No gambling man from Las Vegas would ever take those odds, except Jason Zucker. He was raised in Las Vegas, where he was one of the few kids playing hockey there. Zucker played for the local youth team where Rob Pallin, a native of Chisholm, Minn., coached him.
Pallin has a long history of hockey. He played for his hometown high school before leaving to go and play in the North American Hockey League. He was one of the first people to forgo their years in high school in order to play juniors.
From there, Pallin went on to play at Minnesota Duluth for two years with Brett Hull and finished up his last two years at Western Michigan. He continued on and played in Europe for eight years before settling down in Las Vegas. Pallin started running the Fiesta Ice Arena where he met Zucker.
Getting to know Allie Thunstrom
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- Last Updated on Thursday, 18 October 2012 16:19
Allie Thunstrom: Ms. Hockey 2006, member of the U.S. National Team since 2010, member of Midway Speedskating, currently playing for the Minnesota Whitecaps. Allie grew up in Maplewood, Minn., where she attended North St. Paul High School. After high school she played for Boston College where she majored in psychology and pre-med. While at Boston College, she also participated on the softball team. She is now coaches girls’ hockey at North St. Paul High School and is working on her CPA with an aspiration of either owning her own CPA firm or working for the FBI. Following is a Q & A with Minnesota Whitecap Allie Thunstrom.
Minnesota Whitecaps donate to breast cancer
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- Last Updated on Sunday, 27 May 2012 23:31
The Minnesota Whitecaps donated a Winny Brodt-Brown signed sports bra to the MZ & Emmers Sports Bra Auction for Breast Cancer. On April 7-8, over 200 signed sports bras appeared on eBay. Each one had its own starting time. The bidding will end on April 14 and 15. Go to www.ebay.com/mzemmerssportsbraauction to find the “landing page.” The auction is also featured on the www.ebaygivingworks.com page.
