Hockey Essay

Douglas Moxham Period 4 10/20/17 Hockey 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.The players skate up and down the ice shooting or passing a hard rubber disk called a puck with sticks. They score points by hitting the puck into the net. Hockey is much faster and swifter than any other sport. As the players streak

Many of you are perhaps aware of the “World’s Oldest Known Hockey Stick” that was in the news a couple of years ago. Its most recent former owner, Mark Presley of Berwick, NS, sold it to the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Quebec in January of 2015 for $300,000. Presley happened upon the stick during the year 2000 as it hung on the wall of a North Sydney barber shop. The building’s proprietor at the time, George Ferneyhiugh, who has since retired from the haircutting trade, had it hanging

I always wanted my mom to be proud of me. I never wanted to let her down. She never wanted me to play hockey, she knew I would get hurt. I didn’t care. I did whatever I could to achieve my goal. As a girl, I was underestimated to play Hockey because girls can’t play Hockey. But everyday I tried harder and harder. Even though my mom didn’t approve I tried harder for her, to prove her wrong that I wouldn’t get hurt and I could achieve my goal. After school I went to the rink to practice. My game was

“Is hockey hard?” This is what former NHL star Brendan Shanahan had to say about that question, “I don’t know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us, oh yeah did I mention that this whole time we’re standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice

happens let me tell you a bit of Hugo's history. 2014 December 13 (2 years before IT happened). Hugo was an exceptional hockey player, but sadly he could never show his skills to the world. His family just didn't have the money to send him to hockey when he was a kid, but now that he is old enuff to get a job him and his friends rent a skating rink every Saturday and play hockey. I got up and looked at my alarm clock 6:30 AM

It was a very cold winter day in December. I was heading off to a hockey game just like any other day. My dad screamed down the steps, "Ryan, did you pack your bag? We got to go!" My dad never wants to be late for hockey or feel rushed to get there. I woke up earlier than normal on this day in December. My inline hockey games were not typically early, but this day in particular, it was at 8 am. I skipped breakfast at home, but my dad asked, "Do you want something small from McDonald's?" I

Why One Hockey Player Can Make A World Of Difference By: Jami Ness As a Canadian, hockey is something very important to me and my family. Especially the Calgary Flames. When I was younger, the Calgary Flames never made the Stanley Cup Playoffs, that was something very frustrating for all Flames fans. This all changed when Sean Monahan was drafted in 2013 and turned the franchise around. Sean was a resilient child that showed throughout his hockey career. Sean made the Calgary Flames a true playoff

This research paper is going to discuss facts about hockey and rules of hockey and the history of hockey. NHL Hockey and Olympic hockey are very different due to each league having their own style of play. In Olympic hockey Fighting is frowned upon, those who fight receive a penalty match, and will be ejected from the game. In the NHL fighting, is what most fans come to watch fighting allowed and after the fight is over all players involved in the scuffle will be penalized and put into the penalty

crowds experience all the exciting and nail-biting moments each game with modern sports such as hockey. Throughout the years an evolution in the game has been witnessed; there has been new technologies introduced to the equipment, near death experiences, bias from various sports fields, and new implementation of rules to the game as the years progressed. The true satisfaction of not only being a hockey fan, but a soccer fanatic myself is watching teams come together, and strive to complete the objective

Ice Hockey I. History      Around 1820 the sport started to catch on among the visitors to the frozen lakes. People had played field hockey and another game in Europe for years, but this new version of the old sport required that it’s players put on skates. Using metal blades that could be strapped to their boots, the players would cut branches from trees to use as sticks; for pucks they would use round pieces of cork or wooden balls. In the 1870s, each team was made up of nine players skating