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    Hockey Case Study

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    University is for a Hockey program. Since most of the sports at Norwich are extremely talented with great young athletes I figure it would make the school that much stronger athletically if we expand our sports programs and add new ones. The amount of money we need in order to fund this program and make it happen will be $78,247. There are many reasons why the school and athletic department should lend us the money to build this hockey program at Norwich University Since hockey is a popular sport

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    How Hockey Began Hockey began in Montreal in the 1800’s. It began with a stick a rock and a frozen pond, the game started spreading around like wildfire, things were being added and changed with every group of people trying to create there own version of hockey but in the 1850’s the first games of ice hockey were played, and in the 1870's, the first set of ice hockey rules were written by a group of students at McGill University in Montreal. These rules set up the use of a puck replacing a ball

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    of playing in hockey at the elite level is simply just too expensive for a typical middle class Canadian family to be able to afford. Hockey Academies are private schools, which are a luxury where you go to school and practice and perfect your skills as a hockey player at the same time. Personal Training and Hockey Schools are tools that could be used to become a better hockey player by getting stronger, faster and more practice time during the off-season. The raise in prices for ice time, leagues

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    Today, the term hockey describes differing games in various parts of the world, but specifically in North America it refers to as ice hockey. In its origin, hockey is one of the oldest games played. The earliest mention of the sport of hockey dates back to 1572, when it was on a list of prohibited games. Hockey's birthplace is believed to be in Asia and authorities credit Persia with having devised it about 2000 BC. People who perfected the game of polo must have known "hockey on the ground"

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    In 2014, the hockey players of a Wisconsin tournament had to be treated because of carbon monoxide poisoning, which may have occurred as a result of ice-resurfacing equipment that malfunctioned. Because of the mass carbon monoxide poisoning that took place, US health officials want to raise awareness of this event to avoid identical situations in the future. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report describes the largest carbon monoxide poisoning in the history of Wisconsin, which was published recently

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    Ice Hockey verse Roller hockey Ice hockey and roller hockey are two of the fastest paced games and proven to be one of the hardest games to be played. You have to have the coordination of any athlete the strength, speed, and conditioning of a football player while putting those skills on skates. Though the two sports sound much alike they are actually very different. In the game of ice hockey there are many rules and ways to play the game. The most basic rules of the game are, In order to start

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    Evolution Of Ice Hockey

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    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

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    Ice hockey is more than just a game. To be in ice hockey you need to be a family not just a team. You need to work and train harder than everyone thinks. Especially if you’re an olympic player. You also need to focus on the team not just yourself since it is a team sport. Hockey is judged and doubted, everyone assumes it is a lot easier than it looks. You have to be skating as fast as you can on slippery ice on thin blades, while you are wearing extra gear to protect you and holding a stick focusing

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    Hockey has always had an eminent role in the ideology of identity and nationalism within Canada, from Paul Henderson’s monumental goal in the 1972 Summit Series to Sidney Crosby’s 2014 Olympic Gold medal goal it has shaped Canada as a country. Over time, while the love and pride Canadians show for the game has not changed, the participation or involvement of children in hockey has decreased. The decrease of participants in hockey in Canada is due to the fact that hockey is becoming increasingly

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    more sports. But one of the most exciting and intense ones is ice hockey. Ice hockey is played by many countries and is a very popular international sport. Every year there is a men's and women's tournament. 12 teams compete in the men's tournament and 6 in the women’s. People from all over the globe gather to watch these teams compete. So what is ice hockey? Basically, Ice hockey is a contact sport played between two teams on an ice court. The goal of the game is to hit a round puck into a guarded

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