He passes the puck across the ice, skating down the boards to the middle,past the blue line! He's on a breakaway! Shoots, Scores!!! Many people know about the fast paced game of hockey. A very old popular sport using wooden sticks to move a rubber disc around a large sheet of ice. Here are some interesting facts about the game of hockey that will amaze you. The First Recorded Hockey Puck Was Made of Cow Poop When people played pond hockey, they used frozen chunks of cow dung. This dates all the way back to the 1800s. They used cow dung because many of the ponds that froze in the winter had farms or cow pastures nearby. Hockey pucks have also been made of wood and sliced up bouncy balls. People would cut off the tops of rubber balls, then make the edges equal. Hockey pucks even used to be square! 2. Mike Milbury Once Beat a Fan With His Shoe …show more content…
That's because of Mike Milbury’s incident during a game. His team got in a fight with the other team, and it got so intense that players started to climb over the wall. Many were beating fans that were yelling at them. Mike Milbury even grabbed a fan’s shoe and beat him them with it. He received a 6 game suspension as a result. 3. The Stanley Cup Used to be only 7 inches tall We all know about the Stanley Cup, right? It is the trophy that NHL teams battle for every year. But do you know it’s origin? A silver punch bowl was given as a gift to Lord Stanley of Preston. It was donated to a top ranking Canadian hockey team, and called the Stanley Cup. Every year NHL teams compete to win it. The team that wins it gets their names engraved on a ring of silver. Eventually, the Cup had too many rings of silver. So whenever a ring is full, they take a ring off the bottom one and preserve it in the hockey hall of fame. It is 35 inches tall now! 4. People Put Some WIERD Things In The Stanley
Or maybe alloy bats and composite bats The middle of the ball is called the “Cork”. The core of the ball is made of long fiber kapok, in 2004 high-visibility yellow optic covering. Alloy bat son the other hand, are thinner and have more responsive barrels. Alloy bats are also more durable because they are made of aluminum. Composite bats are made of a carbon fiber,graphite, and fiberglass, and some also have kevlar. Kevlar is a synthetic fiber of high tensile strength used especially as a reinforcing agent in the manufacture of tires and other rubber products and protective gear such as helmets and vests. There are many different parts of the bats which is a big part to make the player and who they are on the field. There is a knob which is the very base of the bat. Directly above that there is the grip for the players so they can grip the bat on the handle. Above the grip there is the barrel of the bat where the ball hits, it is also the thickest part of the baton top of that is the end cap on the end of the bat.
When the age arrived when fans became increasingly enthralled with hockey, these boards were no longer practical. This was where the conundrum started. Something was necessary to keep a hockey puck, hurdling at speeds
The sport of hockey has a long proud history of being one of the best sports in the
suspended for the year or the game for bad behavior on the ice. USA hockey makes sure player
In 1994, the Canadian Federal government compromised and voted to make hockey Canada’s National Winter Sport and lacrosse Canada’s National Summer Sport. Which Sport should be named Canada’s true national sport? Hockey is in the blood of all Canadians. Millions can vividly remember the first time they put on a pair of skates and stepped onto the ice. Providing nation-wide entertainment, Canadians are overcome by emotional realization that “Canada is hockey.”- Mike Weir. Generations of Canadians were brought up listening to Hockey Night in Canada every Saturday evening on the radio. It is more than just a sport in Canada, it defines the culture. Look no further than the five-dollar bill. One will observe a group of children playing a game of hockey on a frozen pond. The sport is part of Canada’s national identity.
Turning, stopping, and making lateral movements are extremely easy to do on ice, but roller hockey is completely different. In roller hockey there is no such thing as making a tight turn or stopping on a dime, because the wheels just slide out from underneath the player. The stopping technique for roller hockey is basically the same as ice hockey, but the player slides a little before coming to a complete halt.
The Haudenosaunee created lacrosse many centuries ago. Alfred Jacques is a lacrosse stick maker from the Onondaga Nation. According the Jacques, lacrosse is viewed as a man’s game in Haudenosaunee society. They believe that the Creator gave them the game of lacrosse. Because of this, they take lacrosse very seriously since not playing hard is dishonorable to the Creator. The Haudenosaunee play games within their communities. These games are played the same way that lacrosse was traditionally played. The game is played on an open field without any out of bounds and without pads. They game is also played without any stoppage of play. Usually, the teams are split up by age with the younger men facing the older men. Moreover, the creation of the sticks holds a special place with the Haudenosaunee. For Alfred Jacques, it takes about ten months to make a stick. First, he hand carves the stick out of a tree and steams the wood. After two months of drying, he begins to bend the head of the stick. After six more months of drying, the head of the stick is bent further. Now that the stick has its shape, he trims the stick down to the right thickness. Afterwards, he drills the holes in the head for the netting and sand the stick down. Lastly, he shellacs the stick and put on the netting. Alfred Jacques showed the ways in which sticks have changed
It first originated from ball and stick games played in Greece in 400 BCE. With the spread of civilization came the spread of the ideas and characteristics as well. Although there is archaeological evidence of people playing some kind of field hockey it was not played in an organized setting until the 1800’s. In 1872, a man from Nova Scotia by the name of James Creighton moved to Montreal bringing the sport of hockey with him. He brought his sticks and skates and sparked interest from those around him. He first begin to play with others indoor but because the sport was first played with a ball they eventually moved outdoors due to the danger of the ball flying all over indoors. It wasn’t long until Creighton designed a “flat circular piece of wood” later known as the puck that made it possible to play indoors again. Montreal became the hearth or node of Ice
Participation in sports and games has long been a part of Native culture. The most significant example of a sport invented and played by Natives is lacrosse. Lacrosse is still designated as the official sport of Canada despite the overwhelming popularity of hockey (http://canada.gc.ca). Lacrosse was one of many varieties of indigenous stickball games being played by Native Americans and Canadians at the time of European contact. Almost exclusively a male team sport, it is distinguished from other stick and ball games, such as field hockey or shinny, by the use of a netted racquet with which to pick the ball off the ground, throw, catch and vault it into or past a goal to score a point.
In 1990 women’s hockey had its first World Championship. Team Canada was made to wear pink jerseys as described in Hockey: A People’s History which showed a clear difference in the opinions of men playing versus women, as the women did not get to wear the red and white that the men wore to represent their country. However, this was still an important step. Men’s hockey was introduced to the Olympic Games in 1920. Women’s hockey was not included until 1998. It took 78 years for female hockey players to get to the same level on an international scale that men had been welcomed to. Olympic competition is arguably the best of the best; as countries send their most successful athletes to compete against the best from countries that they may not have the opportunity to play against in regular competition. While it may have taken many years, the introduction of women’s hockey into the Olympics was a clear display of the legitimization of the game. Thanks to the addition, many girls in Canada and around the world have had more exposure to women playing hockey. Especially for Canadian’s, seeing Team Canada dominate so frequently on the world stage has helped the growth of the game for women and has helped with the acceptance of female
each end is a cage, or goal which the players try to hit the puck into. They hit the pucks with wooden or graphite sticks with curved ends. The puck is a disc-like object made of black rubber.
Youth Hockey Growth in the United States is the main focus of this research. The sport of hockey has been around for nearly 200 years. The game was produced from a form of stick and ball games started by immigrants. These immigrants were British soldiers who brought their type of hockey to Canada. Paintings from the 1830’s depict the sport of ice-hockey taking off in Canada.(Garth, Vaughan) As the sport grew so did the age groups in which it was played. Many sports start their growth from the elders down to the youth. The same can be said for ice-hockey. Many gentlemen started to play the sport as a way to pass the time. This is when the children began to take a liking to the sport. Fathers began to teach their children the fundamentals and from there, the rest is history.
Lacrosse is America’s oldest game. Its origins can be traced back to early Native American tribes in the eastern United States and Canada. When European settlers saw Native Americans playing the fast-paced and action-packed game, they decided to try it out for themselves. Over the years, lacrosse has grown into a sport that is played in all fifty states and over 150 countries. People of all ages can play the game both indoors and outdoors. Lacrosse played outdoors differs from lacrosse played indoors, and women have different rules and equipment than men. Although different ways of playing the game exist, the objective of the game is still the same: score the most goals by shooting the ball into the back of the other team’s goal. Rich origins, fast play, and skilled players make lacrosse a game that many people can enjoy.
Attention Getter: Mia Hamm. Peyton Manning. Steve Nash. Here are just a few great athletes that most of us have heard of. But what is it that makes us look up to them? What is it that makes them great? The truth is that sports are only a small part of what makes a person worthy of looking up to.
So maybe before it gets here, we should all take a history lesson of how the Stanley Cup Trophy came to be.