ALEXANDRIA, Minn. — Many sports fans around the Alexandria area know Matthew Carlsen for what he does between the lines of competition in athletics. The senior for the Cardinals is a three-sport ...

“Take care of your sticks and they’ll take care of you.” That’s the advice that Marc Savard stresses to viewers in his YouTube videos where he recreates how various NHL players tape their hockey ...

Ask Google how to tape a hockey stick and you’ll get more than 1.6 million answers. Ask Cole Candella and you’ll get exactly one.

Being a hockey dad, Lee Wright always took the 15 minutes needed to tape up his kids’ sticks. He knew hockey tape only lasts a couple games. “Tape just really sucks. It doesn’t hold on like it used to ...