history of hockey
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 that players encountered. Lastly, the Stanley Cup, which is the most prized and oldest sports award of the NHL. It has been won many times, by many different teams.Ice hockey is traceable to games played on fields as far back as nearly 2500 years ago. In 478 BC, a Greek soldier, Hemostocoles, built a wall in Athens which contained a sculpture scene portraying two athletes in a faceoff-like stance holding sticks similar to those later used in field hockey. (Hubbard & Fischler, page17)Perhaps native Americans were the first to play hockey like games. The Indians of Canada invented the field game lacrosse, which is known by the legislative act as Canada's and national sport. The Alogonquins who inhabited the shores
NHL forward Brendan Shananhan summed up his country's partiality for hockey in 1996 when he stated: "lacrosse is our national sport, the hockey is our beloved national sport. It was played on the frozen pans of North American and northern Europe (Scotland in particular). Tournament rules called for seven men to a side and two 30-minute periods with a 10-minute intermission. Crowds remained sparse, even though the league tried to elict interest by adopting new rules to make the game faster and more interesting. Lawrence River area and northern areas of United States in the 1700's witnessed these matches. (Hubbard & Fischler, page18-19)Early hockey-like games that came from across the Atlantic include the Field game Hurley from Ireland, field hockey from England, and the ice games English bandy and Kolven from Holland. Emigrants from Holland who settled in New York City played the game in their new locale. In 1892 Lord Stanley of Preston, the sixth to Governor General of Canada and an avid fan of the game, Sent his aide Captain Charles Colvill to England to purchase a trophy to be awarded annually to the amateur champions of Canada. This meeting consisted of NHA owners representing the Canadians, the Wanderers, the Quebec Bulldogs, and the Ottawa Senators. The flu sent many players to the hospital, tragically some of them died 6-8 weeks later. Upon learning that the Americans were playing ice polo instead of ice hockey, the Canadians invented their North American counterparts to visit Canada the next winter to play exhibition games of both sports against their border buddies. Another ice game played by the Micmacs was "alchamadijik," which was referred to in legends of the Micmacs, issued in 1894. The sport's growth in popularity brought new ideas for the formation of a professional league, which would be later referred to as the NHL. The meager crowd left no doubt that pro hockey, even under a new banner, was still suffering from the army scandal, most of the greatest players were off fighting at war. French explorers who visited the St.
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