1.   Other events include fastest skater, most accurate shot and stick handling.

2.   Schwager, who has been skating for only two years, learned to play hockey by watching it on television and by enrolling in clinics that teach stick handling.

3.   Selfish as it sounded, Gretzky felt compelled to explain himself honestly, a characteristic that served him at least as well as his stick handling.

4.   Teammates blamed their own careless stick handling and puck control for many of the shots Colorado put in.

5.   The non-hockey fan might be surprised that fighting is as much a part of the game as scoring and stick handling.