Thank you to everyone who responded. I have passed along the leads to the writer from The New York Times.
FYI, here's who responded or was suggested:
NORTH OF THE BORDER
* Wayne Marino, PhD at U Windsor
* Mario Lamontagne, PhD at U Ottawa (www.biomech.uotttawa.ca)
* Darren Stefanyshyn, PhD at U Calgary
* David Pearsall, PhD at McGill (http://icehockeyscience.mcgill.ca)
* Steve Murphy, PhD dissertation at U Waterloo
SOUTH OF THE BORDER
* Mike Torry, PhD at Steadman-Hawkins Sports Medicine Foundation (CO)
* Peter Vint, PhD at the U.S. Olympic Training Center (CO)
* Vivek Pinto, MS at Hospital for Joint Diseases (NY)
ON THE CONTINENT
* John Rasmussen, PhD at Aalborg University (www.ime.aau.dk/~jr)
* Amit Swamy, MS at U Hull
- Glenn S. Fleisig, Ph.D.
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