Fighting in ice hockey

As a child, I was extremely active and participated in many sports, however, there is no question that my main source of physical activity was hockey. Like many other children from my community in Kingston, hockey has been a true passion of mine for as long as I can remember. My father was the one who introduced hockey into my life at a young age, as he did for my older brother Andrew as well. Growing up, my father would dedicate many winter days and nights building and maintaining an outdoor…

takes Pauline’s hockey table and puts it on top of the book shelf so Pauline could not reach it (84). Pauline’s game being moved in location where she cannot reach it represents how initially she feels like she is unable to achieve her dream of playing hockey. The author uses Pauline’s situation to teach the reader that sometimes our goals seem out of reach at first. Second, the triggering event that changes Pauline when Marie gives her a hockey stick (86). By giving Pauline a hockey stick she…

century, many small scale leagues were created for the operation of professional hockey. The current league, National Hockey League (NHL) was founded in 1917 to structuralize the various teams around North America. NHL reviews rule changes and schedules the games in which the many teams play. Ice Hockey is considered one of the 4 most popular sports in North America, as well as being very prominent in Canada. Thus, ice hockey is a very popular sport that is enjoyable across the US and…

many small scale leagues were created for the operation of professional hockey. The current league, the National Hockey League (NHL) was founded in 1917 to structuralize the various teams around North America. The NHL reviews rule changes and schedules the games in which the many teams play. Ice Hockey is considered one of the 4 most popular sports in North America, as well as being very prominent in Canada. Thus, ice hockey is a very popular sport that is enjoyed across the US and Canada.…

Hockey in the desert Ice hockey is a sport almost unheard of in the city of Tucson, Arizona. There is the local college team, the Wildcats, but aside from that you have to drive through the middle of a scorching desert to get to the nearest city with an ice rink. And then of course there is me. Hockey is a big hobby of mine, and sadly I was unfortunate enough to grow up in the middle of a desert where hockey is not a big part of the culture. But that wasn’t going to stop me. My goal was to get…

she excitedly pulls us out of bed. This is her day. It belongs to no one else, her first solo ice skating competition. Preparing for this all important day has taken a great deal of work. Able to walk a balance beam at two, Christy takes to ice skating as quickly as she walks a balance beam. Before long we are involved in a world of group lessons, private lessons, ice pros, costumes, and ice shows. Thank goodness for the Zion Park District, five minutes away, and how lucky we are to…

The sport of hockey has, for one reason or another, become an integral part of the Canadian identity. It is a cultural myth that Canadians are born with hockey sticks in their hands and a couple missing teeth. In fact, in 1994, hockey along with lacrosse was named the national sport of Canada. So it is no surprise that when the 1972 Summit Series between the USSR and Canada was set to be played, national identity was on the line. Therefore, this essay is going to analyze the iconic image that…

1900’s. I will focus on the hockey articles in this first paragraph and argue how hockey as a sport has shaped society to be a hegemonic one. To begin, I will summarize the hockey articles discussed in the newspaper and bring up what I thought is important not only to how sports was reported and looked at but as well how sports shapes society and as well sets gender norms. In the first article Varsity Trims a Composite Senior Team By Score of 20-6, it talks about college hockey and how a varsity…

“Good afternoon hockey fans, Im Doc Emrick beside Eddie Olczyk, we are here in Detroit Michigan at Joe Louis Arena! We have a good game coming, San Jose Sharks vs. Detroit Red Wings game 7 of the 2016 Stanley Cup Finals”. “Yeah Doc, this has been a tough series, very physical game play by these two teams, we've seen stats we have never seen before in the cup finals, each team is averaging 60 shots on goal a game, that is insane!” “Thanks Eddie, now we go to center ice for the puck drop.”…

Saturday afternoon in December and frighteningly cold out. Becca had gone to the ice rink to watch Ashley skate. Sitting on the bleachers, freezing, wishing her best friend was a gymnast or even a pianist, she reached up and pulled her hat over her ears. She peered through the glass wall, out to the ice, and quickly forgot about her frozen extremities. Ashley’s coach stood scrutinizing her as she sped across the ice, jumped high in the air, spun around into a blur of beautiful colors and…