Hockey Stick History

Hockey sticks are definitely the most important part of any player’s equipment. The long history of hockey sticks have undergone much evolution. At the beginning they were simple wooden branches, but in present day they range from fiberglass to composite. Most hockey sticks nowadays range from $100-200. There are four different sizes of hockey sticks, youth, junior, intermediate, and senior. There are also many different blade patterns, coming from different brands sponsors.

Hockey is a sport thats origins may be from Persia, Egypt or China, while archaeological evidence shows an early ball-and-stick game played in Greece in the 400s BCE. As civilization spread, so did the games. In 1872, a young man from Halifax, Nova Scotia named James Creighton moved to Montreal, bringing the sport of ice hockey with him bringing with him hockey sticks and skates. Which in turn a man named Lord Stanley created the first national hockey organization. In 1912 the very first professional hockey game. I’ll present my information in chronological order with also talking about how and when hockey affected the country presented.

Whilst hockey stick production has traditionally been based in North America, over the last decade there has been a significant shift towards global sourcing in the industry (Zhang & Beamish, 2011, p.21). This has been driven by a desire to access low-cost factors of production, secure cheaper material resources, and ultimately gain a competitive advantage.

Lacrosse was created by the Algonquian tribe in the St. Lawrence Valley and spread to the Midwest. They played with wooden sticks and a wooden ball. The only rule was to not touch the ball with your hands. Lacrosse became very popular in Canada when a dentist founded the Montreal Lacrosse Club in 1856. They redesigned the stick and the ball in 1866.

The Mold Gold Cape is a gold cape found in Mold, North Wales thought to have been made between 1900 to 1600 C.E.(MacGregor, pg 117) The dimensions of the cape are 23.5 centimetres high 46 .5 centimeters wide and 28 centimeters in depth, it looks like a gold short Poncho that goes over the head and has a thin gold plating to it. From how the metal looks you can tell that it was struck from The inside out to create the rivets and holes that you can see. The cape was found with amber beads,bronze fragments ,and the gold cape on a skeleton when it was found in 1833 by some local stone workers. Because of the people who found the object the cape was split into multiple pieces and it took the British Museum of London over a hundred years

The Detroit Red Wings eventually took home their first Stanley Cup in franchise history in 1936. However, to get there they would have to endure the longest game in NHL history. The Wings skated against the Montreal Maroons in the 1936 semi-finals. The Maroons hosted the opening game at the legendary Montreal Forum. This would be one for the ages.

First of all, the sport of Lacrosse, which is French for “the crosier”, is the national game of Canada at confederation and by 1867 the official rules had been established. More famously know in Canada is the sport of ice hockey which is a Canadian tradition and it’s origins can be traced to an old Irish game of Hurling. The Stanley Cup is awarded to the league's champion and is named after Frederick Arthur who was Canada’s governor-general in 1888. Many of Hockey’s greatest players are from Canada such as Wayne Gretzky and Gordie Howe. Wayne Gretzky was born in Ontario, Canada and started skating at 2 years old.

The sport that Native Americans are most famous for is Lacrosse. It was widely, and still is, commonly known throughout the Americas. While mostly found played near the Atlantic Seaboard and around the Great Lakes area, it was also played in the South, on the grasslands and plains in California, and in the Pacific Northwest. There were three different forms of Lacrosse based on the equipment that was used, the type of goal used, and stick handling techniques. These different forms could be found throughout many different tribes and tribal groups. The materials used in this sport were curved rackets, one ball, goal posts, and the players. The ball was generally made of either wood or buckskin. The rackets had a net on the end to hold the ball in place when running to score at the end of the field. Hundreds of players participated in this sport and often prizes were given out to the winners. “J.G Kohl declared Lacrosse to be the finest and grandest sport of all” (Native American Sports 1800-1860).

Hockey sensation and legend Wayne Gretzky made it big the year he was sold to the Edmonton Oilers during the year of 1979. Born in Brantford, Ontario, Canada on January 26, 1961 Gretzky started playing hockey at the age of 6 for a local team. Up until the age of 19 he was playing for higher levels of hockey teams with older boys. As a dominant and competitive player at 15 years old he was playing with Peterborough Petes of the Hockey Association then moved on to playing for World Junior Championships in Quebec. Later in the year of 1978 Wayne joined the Indianapolis Racers with team owner Skalbania which months later the hockey team was no longer in the league and then sold Gretzky to an NHL team.

Lawrence Dalaglio once said, “The most important thing about winning is believing that you can win no matter who you are playing.” The USA Hockey Foundation is an organization that was born out of a shoebox in Tom Lockhart’s New York City apartment. Today, this nonprofit charity helps spread the sport of ice hockey in America; young people become leaders, even Olympic heroes; and connect the game at every level while promoting a lifelong love of the sport.

Fig. 2. The ‘Norfolk Knife’, a sporting knife by Joseph Rodgers and Sons, as photographed in 2011 (‘The History of Joseph Rodgers’). Until 1969, the ‘Norfolk Knife’ was kept at the Norfolk Works (‘“Norfolk Knife” and Sam Holmes’), when it was auctioned at Sotheby's and bought by the Sheffield silverplate firm, Cooper Bros’ (‘Souvenir Card’). Today, the knife is on permanent display in the Cutlers’ Hall, the headquarters of the Company of

The one of many rinks that Ralph Englsted had built. It takes about 3 hours to get to Fargo, that gives us 3 hours to get focused on our first game against Greenway. When we got to the rink all of our eyes were wide open taking in these titanic peace of architecture, this rink was massive compared to our puny little thing back in Little Falls. It was funny because we all got to the rink before it was even open. We had to wait a while so we needed to improvise, we tossed around a football foolishly in the parking lot being careful to not get injured. Finally the rink had opened, and we can bring our "smelly" gear in as our parents always

1920s - The Red Wings go all the way back to the old Western Hockey League, when the Victoria (British Columbia) Cougars were sold to a group from Detroit on September 25, 1926. The team played its home games in Windsor, Ontario. The Victoria Cougars had won the Stanley Cup in 1925 and were Cup finalists in 1926, but the Detroit Cougars finished 12-28-4; the NHL's worst record for the 1926-27 season.

The work has traveled quite a bit during its lifespan. After production it was acquired by Ambroise Vollard in 1910. From there it ended up in a few different galleries and individual’s hands, including Vollard once more. In 1956 the artwork was acquired by Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur D. May. One year later it was gifted by the Mays to the St. Louis Art Museum. The artwork has been there ever since (Saint Louis Art Museum).

This artefact is one of the most important objects in my life, which is my first OFSAA swimming gold medal. This medal is my first medal in Canada, which is a huge event; the people in our school team who had medals in OFSAA went on the Mississauga News, and showed other individuals that even how small your school is. You are the amazing part of your school, so show others what you can do and what you can achieve. Just as the lyrics of Fire Work by Katey Perry You just gotta ignite the light and let it shine just own the night like the fourth of