Apex Sport Performance: $199 for Hockey Skating & Skills Foundations Camp 10-Session Pack ($350 Value)

Today’s Groupon Ottawa Daily Deal of the Day: Apex Sport Performance: $199 for Hockey Skating & Skills Foundations Camp 10-Session Pack ($350 Value)

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The Groupon Deal

• C$199 for Hockey Skating and Skills Foundations Camp 10-Session Pack (C$350 value)

Choose from two camp groups, with sessions on either Tuesday and Thursday or Monday and Wednesday; see dates and times here. Trainers focus on fundamentals to help male and female students of all ages improve their game.

This is a limited 1-day only sale that will expire tonight at midnight (Wednesday, May 20, 2015).

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In a Nutshell
Students learn everything from fundamental skate movement to puck handling and strategy

The Fine Print
Expires Aug 19th, 2015. Must sign waiver. Registration required; subject to availability. Limit 1 per person. Limit 1 per visit. Valid for ages 8-13. Sessions are open to all Novice, Atom and Peewee level recreational and competitive players. Not valid with any other offers, specials or discounts. 24-hour cancellation required.; certified medical note is required to obtain a voucher redeemable towards future Apex camps or clinics. All sessions must be used by the same person. Merchant is solely responsible to purchasers for the care and quality of the advertised goods and services.

Apex Sport Performance
http://www.apexsportperformance.com/
2571 Lancaster Road
Ottawa, ON K1B 5N2

The Zamboni: Making Ice Nice Again
Keeping the ice fresh at the arena is a task that only the beloved Zamboni can handle. Check out Groupon’s guide to this indispensible invention.

Frank J. Zamboni felt impatient. He wasn’t happy with the inefficient methods his crews had to use to resurface the ice at his California ice rink. First, they had to shave off a top layer of ice and scoop away the snow, then rinse the underlying ice and remove the dirty water. Only then could they apply the thin layer of clean water that freezes into fresh, skateable ice. All told, the painstaking process required up to four people and took nearly an hour to perform—hardly conducive to the marching bands that play on the ice during hockey intermissions. It was then, in 1949, that Frank—an inventor who already had several patents to his name—set out to find a better solution and eventually arrived on a machine that’s since become synonymous with hockey—the Zamboni.

Early versions of what would become the Zamboni ice resurfacer were made of a mishmash of automotive and other mechanical parts, including a Jeep chassis—which remained the vehicle’s base until 1964. Modern Zambonis are battery-operated and perform a slew of actions all at once to efficiently replenish ice surfaces. As a driver maneuvers the vehicle, an extremely sharp, flat blade shaves the top layer of ice while rotating augers gather the shavings and propel them into a tank for storage. Then a pipe sprays water onto the ice to clean it before a vacuum recycles it back into the wash-water tank. To complete the process, a towel and squeegee soaked in fresh water trails behind the machine, evening out the new surface in a fraction of the time it took before. Though there are other brands of ice resurfacing machines, the Zamboni brand remains the most popular option among arenas and fans. Most of the machines are still made in California as well as at another facility in Brantford, Ontario—the birthplace of another of hockey’s great engineering marvels, Wayne Gretzky himself.

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