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Ice Hockey Games |
Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in Canada and the United
States, is a team sport played on ice. It is one of the world's
fastest sports, with players on skates capable of going high speeds
on natural or artificial ice surfaces.
In the game two opposing teams of six skaters each tries to knock a
flat round puck into the opponents' goal with angled sticks
DO YOU KNOW
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Besides ice skates and
sticks, hockey players are usually equipped with an array of
safety gear to lessen their risk of serious injury. |
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This
includes a helmet, shoulder pads, elbow pads, mouth guard,
protective gloves, heavily padded shorts, a 'jock' athletic
protector, shin pads and a neck guard. |
The
hockey skate is usually made of a thick layer of leather or
nylon to protect the feet and lower legs of the player from
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HISTORY OF ICE HOCKEY
- A 16th-century Dutch paintings show some townsfolk playing a
hockey-like game on a frozen canal.
- Author Thomas Chandler Haliburton wrote in his book of boys
from King's College School in Windsor, Nova Scotia, playing "hurley
on the ice" when he was a student there around 1800.
- In the year 1825 Sir John Franklin wrote that "The game
of hockey played on the ice was the morning sport" while on
Great Bear Lake during one of his Arctic expeditions.
- In 1843 a British Army officer in Kingston (Ontario) wrote "Began
to skate this year, improved quickly and had great fun at hockey
on the ice."
FOUNDATION OF MODERN
ICE HOCKEY
- The development of the modern ice hockey centered in Montreal
on March 3, 1875, the first organized indoor game played at
Montreal's Victoria Rink by James Creighton and several McGill
University students.
- In the year 1877, several McGill students, including Henry
Joseph, Creighton, Richard F. Smith, W.F. Robertson, and W.L.
Murray codified seven ice hockey rules.
- McGill University Hockey Club, the first ice hockey club, was
founded in 1880.
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