ECAC Hockey

The sense of family is what I enjoyed most about being part of the hockey team. We all look out for each other and support each other. We focus on the positive. We do not ignore the negative, we address it and move on. We are there for each other during the season as well as the off-season. If I needed advice about an important decision I needed to make or a reference for a job, I would not hesitate to reach out to Coach George. I trust him to give me good advice and I know he would be honest…

Ice Hockey was not invented, nor did it start on a certain day of a particular year. It originated around 1800, in Windsor, where the boys of Canada’s first college, King’s College School, established in 1788, adapted the exciting field game of Hurley to the ice of their favorite skating ponds and originated a new winter game, Ice Hurley. Over a period of decades, Ice Hurley gradually developed into Ice Hockey. A man who is still North America’s most quoted author, Thomas Chandler Haliburton,…

Watching my older sister picking up a hockey stick at a young age sparked my competitive nature, as there was no chance she was going to be better than me! I was brought up in a hockey family where sport has always played a key part of our lifestyle. Through my love of the game I have developed several Injuries over the years ranging from broken bones, shin splints to more recently Osgood-Schlatter’s disease, all of which have prevented me from playing from time to time. This is how I discovered…

Parents, trying to make the next me, will make their children start at a young age. More and more parents will do this, sparking an age of hockey players that will put up numbers similar to mine. Hockey then will be more exciting to watch, with all the talent that is being shown. With what the parents are doing, will make the competition of the Association hockey will be far greater, because of the talent that is being brought up. The kids that haven’t started early will have to compete for…

My Favorite Sport I was 5 going on 6 when my mom first took me to Iceland Skating Rink in Sacramento. After a few visits at Iceland, I ask my mom if l could take lessons. Hesitant my mom agreed, not knowing that I would not only like it but be good at skating. So the journey began! My mom had seen a coach working with children my age,her name was Judy. Tall and Lean Judy was a nice Drill Sargent who produced winners and l was one of them! In order to be good at Ice Skating you must…

We all know that being Canadian isn't an easy thing to do. You have to have extreme dedication to Tim Hortons, and Ice Hockey. Be careful, in Canada they do not call it ice hockey, it is hockey, and all other forms of hockey do not exist there. Also, try to avoid talking about the Toronto Maple Leafs, and their fifty year losing streak. They all know that it is happening, but they chose to ignore it. Tim Hortons is the base religon of Canada. If you do not have a cup of Timmies in your hand at…

During a hockey game, an unidentified observer watches the reactions of a first-time spectator. The unidentified observer describes the spectator’s reactions to the hockey match in order to convince sports neophytes that by overcoming the initial confusion to a sport, one will experience more satisfaction watching the game. He incorporates shifting tone, euphonious diction, and parallel syntax to encourage sport neophytes to enjoy hockey. The narrator communicates the spectator’s change in…

Miracle is a 2004 film that tells the true story of the 1980 United States Men’s Hockey team as they prepare and compete in the Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, New York. Herb Brooks, former player now the head coach, along with his assistant coach Craig Patrick, take on the difficult task of putting together a team of young men. At this time NHL players were not allowed to play in the Olympics, so Brooks was forced to assemble a group of college players to compete against the best world has to…

moments. He is a former hockey player who played for the Boston Bruins. He wore the number four and represented Boston as one of their great players in the team's history. Robert Gordon Orr was born on March 20, 1948, in Parry Sound, Ontario, Canada. He had two sisters and two brothers. Bobby Orr started playing hockey when he was five years old, as a forward. He started playing in the minor squirt division a year after getting his first pair of skates and playing pond hockey. The level that…

drives more people apart than unifying them. The articles provided for this week’s critical reading focus on the way that hockey dictates and reinforces the hegemonic white ideals in Canada. Pride in one’s country is an admirable trait, however, when patriotism reaches an extreme it can become toxic to society. The danger of…