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11	"We Want Fish Sticks!": The Failed Rebranding of the New York Islanders Hirshon, Nicholas H. 19 September 2016 (has links) No description available. Mass Communications mass communication history marketing sports branding rebranding hockey National Hockey League New York Islanders
12	Racking Up The Twitter Points: How Professional Hockey Player Identities Are Affected By Twitter Usage Jinnah, NAILA 28 April 2014 (has links) In this thesis, I examine the use of Twitter by NHL athletes to determine how and in what ways professional hockey players’ personal and professional identities are shaped by their use of this medium. I explore the current cultural moment surrounding the lives of NHL athletes, focusing on the increasingly blurred line between their private and professional identities. By grounding my analysis of their Twitter use in a new labour context that is academically situated betwixt the literatures on media studies, celebrity culture and identity presentation, I show that participation in this medium allows both athletes and fans to actively reshape their own and each others’ identities, constructing a new set of standards for professional hockey players that takes into consideration the heightened demand for access to the behind-the-scenes of their lives. The ability of professional hockey players to interact with fans and media on Twitter is also creating new types relationships and producing new discourses for the typical hockey player identity, and the labour this career involves. Finally, through interviews with NHL players, I draw out their motives for using Twitter, their understanding of the impact of their interaction with fans on the perceptions those fans have of their professional identity, and their desire for work-life balance as their professional and personal identities seemingly merge on Twitter in a postmodern labour context fuelled by heightened celebrity culture. / Thesis (Master, Kinesiology & Health Studies) -- Queen's University, 2014-04-27 14:50:32.902 Twitter labour National Hockey League identity athletic identity digital fandom performance Goffman Foucault social media grounded theory Colby Armstrong professional sport Blake Geoffrion Montreal Canadiens celebrity culture
13	The Sidney Effect: Competitive Youth Hockey and Fantasy Relationships Theoret, Matthew John Ross January 2009 (has links) This thesis explores how a group of 17 male youth athletes, and their families, experience competitive hockey. Many of the youths seem to forge fantasy relationships with hockey celebrities, heroes, and stars -- e.g. Sidney Crosby -- emulating them with regard to the "best" attitudes, equipment, and styles of play to have or use. Their parents invest considerable amounts of money and time into their sons' participation in hockey, not because they necessarily share their sons' dreams of athletic stardom, but because they hope that it will help instill community-defined "positive" values into their sons--tools needed to become "successful" youths and, eventually, adults. anthropology celebrity crosby ethnography family fan fantasy relationship hero hockey idolization imaginary relationship magical national hockey league NHL participant observation sidney crosby social anthropology socialization sport star the sidney effect youth youth sport Public Issues Anthropology
14	The Sidney Effect: Competitive Youth Hockey and Fantasy Relationships Theoret, Matthew John Ross January 2009 (has links) This thesis explores how a group of 17 male youth athletes, and their families, experience competitive hockey. Many of the youths seem to forge fantasy relationships with hockey celebrities, heroes, and stars -- e.g. Sidney Crosby -- emulating them with regard to the "best" attitudes, equipment, and styles of play to have or use. Their parents invest considerable amounts of money and time into their sons' participation in hockey, not because they necessarily share their sons' dreams of athletic stardom, but because they hope that it will help instill community-defined "positive" values into their sons--tools needed to become "successful" youths and, eventually, adults. anthropology celebrity crosby ethnography family fan fantasy relationship hero hockey idolization imaginary relationship magical national hockey league NHL participant observation sidney crosby social anthropology socialization sport star the sidney effect youth youth sport Public Issues Anthropology
15	L'analyse économique du droit du poste de commissaire de la Ligue nationale de hockey Pelletier, Julien 08 1900 (has links) No description available. Ligue nationale de hockey Gouvernance Analyse économique du droit Réseau de contrats Théorie de l'agence Dépendance au sentier Conseil d'administration National Hockey League Economic Analysis of Law Theory of the Firm Agency Theory Path Dependence Board of Directors
16	Not All Goals Are Created Equal : Evaluating Hockey Players in the NHL Using Q-Learning with a Contextual Reward Function Vik, Jon January 2021 (has links) Not all goals in the game of ice hockey are created equal: some goals increase the chances of winning more than others. This thesis investigates the result of constructing and using a reward function that takes this fact into consideration, instead of the common binary reward function. The two reward functions are used in a Markov Game model with value iteration. The data used to evaluate the hockey players is play-by-play data from the 2013-2014 season of the National Hockey League (NHL). Furthermore, overtime events, goalkeepers, and playoff games are excluded from the dataset. This study finds that the constructed reward, in general, is less correlated than the binary reward to the metrics: points, time on ice and, star points. However, an increased correlation was found between the evaluated impact and time on ice for center players. Much of the discussion is devoted to the difficulty of validating the results from a player evaluation due to the lack of ground truth. One conclusion from this discussion is that future efforts must be made to establish consensus regarding how the success of a hockey player should be defined. Sports Analytics Markov Game Machine Learning Reinforcement Learning Q-Learning Data Mining National Hockey League Ice Hockey Reward Function Player Evaluation Other Computer and Information Science Annan data- och informationsvetenskap Computer and Information Sciences Data- och informationsvetenskap

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