Canadian professional ice hockey player who serves as captain of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL). Crosby was drafted first overall by the Penguins out of the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). During his two-year major junior career with the Rimouski Océanic, he earned back-to-back CHL Player of the Year awards and led his club to the 2005 Memorial Cup final. Nicknamed "The Next One",[2][3] he was one of the most highly regarded draft picks in hockey history, leading many
For more than a century, hockey historians have found that precisely tracing the sports origin is not only a difficult task but, a virtual impossibility. Therefore I can only try to deduce for myself, from the records, claims, and accounts, which are available to me, when, where, and by whom the first ice hockey was played. I’ll also discuss the early problems and obstacles that the NHL encountered. Plus I will also tell a little bit about early equipment, along with early game play and ice conditions
For my presentation, I focused on Hockey Fans as a subculture. My main idea was to question and see if the fans of hockey qualified as a subculture. One way of doing this was to look at Gelder’s six logics that we have discussed in class. The two that I focused on were territory and excess and exaggeration. Although hockey fans are all over the world, particularly Europe and North America, they have specific areas they tend to stay around, such as living rooms, hockey arenas, and sports bars. For the
revenue from the service they controlled. Richard Gordon accepted this lease because this agreement would repay him for an additional ten million dollars in loses and he sold the team a year later (Lang 53-69). The Hartford Whalers is the only major league team in Connecticut and at the Civic Center. They currently have a bad lease which causes them to lose money. The Hartford Whalers play all exhibition, regular season, playoff games, the training camp, and some practice time rent free at the Civic
scene of the crime or what had happened any further, their words could have caused harm to the audience who would be consuming the media; the survivors of the terror attack, the families of all the victims deceased or living, the Muslim community in Quebec and elsewhere in Canada, all of these different groups of people could have been severely traumatized all over again had the media overstepped the boundary of