Informative Essay About Hockey

As a University of Delaware student, I will feel most comfortable with the academics and the ice hockey rink. My high school is very rigorous academically. There have been many nights where I have had a lot of homework and studying to do. Although I found it challenging, I am very organized and have become accustomed to a heavy academic workload. Therefore, I think my high school has prepared me well and I will be ready to meet the challenges at University of Delaware. When I am not hitting the books, I will be trying to hit the ice as much as I can. I have played ice hockey since I was ten years old. I love everything about the sport and have spent many hours on the ice. I had the opportunity to play in a tournament at the University of Delaware a few years ago. Although I won’t be playing Division 1 hockey, I look forward to continue skating perhaps with club or intramural level hockey.

Second year as an Under-10 Squirt level hockey player for the New Jersey Colonials ice hockey team proved to be a challenging and harrowing experience that shaped the course of my future hockey career. I was a determined, naïve child with fantasies of playing in the NHL when I grew older. The source of my troubles began with Coach Ruben, a relentless, unforgiving hockey coach. Coach Ruben was in charge of determining the AAA hockey team that I desperately wanted to make. Unfortunately, I would not have that opportunity. My mom, compassionate and sympathetic, guided me through the confusing maze of anger and depression. My dad, a coach and former hockey player, gave me valuable, supportive advice that would change my hockey expectations and

Hockey is a fast, exciting sport played by two teams on a sheet of ice called a rink. Each team has six players on the ice, one goalie, two defensemen, two wingers, and one center man.

Playing hockey is a huge part of what defines me as a person. If I learned anything about growing up in Philladelphia, it would definitely be that you do not trash the hometown sports teams. In my house my dad lives and breathes Philly sports so naturally so do I. However, just watching sports was not enough for me, I had to play them too. So I tried to play soccer, baseball and run track. It was atrocious. I couldn't hit a baseball to save my life, and I wasn't fast so track and soccer didn't go well either. I was about to give up on my athletic career when the Philladelphia Flyers made the playoffs in 2010.

Sports in Canada has helped shape Canada’s identity, throughout the years. It was in the 1920s and 1930s that hockey became increasingly popular and played an important role in the lives of Canadians. It was easy for everyone of all ages and levels to strap on a pair of skates, grab a stick and head to frozen ponds, community rinks and top arenas where they could pursue their love of hockey. Canada at this time was starting to become known worldwide for this sport. During this era, important Canadian figures and events occurred in hockey that impacted and helped to shape Canada’s identity.

Every person has a place or a person they can go to in order to experience a sense of belonging. This positive feeling gives one the opportunity to escape the stressful factors of life and the ability to not feel like an outsider while being yourself. Looking back on my life before a sport, I was lost. After picking up field hockey, my life was transformed socially, physically, and mentally. Now, four years later, I am grateful to have such an amazing school team that allows me to feel like I belong there almost every time we are together, both on the perfectly trimmed grass with straight, white lines that mimic turf field, or in the noisy hallways crammed wall to wall with kids. Because this is a school field hockey team, I can always remember that I have somebody to talk to from the beginning of the school day to the end of practice. Without this group of people, I would not be lucky enough to become familiarized

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.

Someone they look up to and aspire to be. With children enrolled in hockey that person is likely going to be a famous hockey player. These children grow up collecting hockey cards and sporting jerseys of their favorite players. Fighting in hockey, as it is now, creates a vey aggressive role model who endorses violent behavior. Fighting and other aggressive behavior are then seen as acceptable and a primary way to play the game.

During this period I learned to improve my work ethic, communication and critical thinking skills. It expanded my ability to pay attention to detail and think critically in intense and stressful situations. I officiated at every level even up to the National Hockey League. It was a promising career, however, during this time I came to the realization I wanted more. It was great to get paid to be in a new city every single night and only have to work five hours a day four times a week. This did not satisfy my desire to truly understand the world and to truly make a difference in the world. Hockey was not intellectually stimulating enough to be able to make a career I would be happy with. Ultimately, you are doing the same thing day in and day out just with different faces and different names. During that time period I learned that I like to help people and I like a challenge. During an offseason I spent a summer down in Peru doing some medical volunteer work. I thought I might want to be a doctor. What I learned from that experience is I can be thrown into situations outside my expertise; where I adapt, fight, and

Aside from baseball, hockey is one of my favorite sports. After reading the overview online about, Hockey Tough, I was immediately interested. Unlike biographies about players playing the game of hockey or books about how to play, Hockey Tough is much more than that. It talks about not only how physically demanding the sport is but also how mentally demanding it is. I think that it is an extreme insight that not many people truly understand unless they have played the game, like I have.

In my four years of playing hockey for Bishop Dwenger we had never lost as many games as last year. Being a junior came with responsibilities; I was an upperclassman and I had to prove that I could turn all of my hard work into a successful season for my team. After losing so many games, I began to feel like a failure to my team. Not only this, but I was also the captain. This meant that I had even more responsibilities.

Considering the significant effect that hockey has on the Canadian economy, the millions of Canadians entertained, and the countless decades of celebrated, memorable history, hockey should be named Canada’s true national sport.

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

Nothing makes me feel better than the hard work I put into hockey. The off-ice training, conditioning and, lifting weights all the hours of intensity and hard work. All that work helps me to improve on being a better hockey player and becoming the best I can be. But sometimes people forgot the other side of the game beyond just exercising and playing. Communication, Team bonding, having fun and being leaders. This side of the game will always stay with you your whole life and even in the working business.

Sports have been and will continue to be an influential factor on cultures around the world. Soccer is influential in Europe, Football influences The United States and for Canada it would be hockey. It was created in Canada and continues today to be a dominating part of Canadian culture as “the sport and national identity are inextricably linked” (Brunt). You could ask almost anyone in Canada if they knew who Wayne Gretzky is or if they have ever played any form of hockey, and undoubtedly you would hear them say yes more often than no. Hockey influences all ages, from youth signing up for minor hockey, to adults taking their children to a game or even the older generations sitting in front of their television in hopes that the Toronto Maple Leafs will beat the Ottawa Senators. The examination of these cultural influences allows the argument to be made that hockey can in fact be deemed “Canada’s game” (Holman 153).Through investigation of the amount of youth that participate in minor hockey, the statistics involving the amount of professional Canadian hockey players and the success that Canada has achieved in the world of professional hockey, such as the Olympics, NHL and IIHF World Juniors, it will become evident that hockey is and will continue to be viewed as “Canada’s game”. (Holman 153)