Informative Speech On Hockey

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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

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