Ice Skating And that’s how I broke my leg, just kidding, but I bruised it really badly, here’s the story behind that. was December 2014, my sister had discovered the “joy” of ice skating and was obsessed with it. She constantly asked my parents if her and her friends could go ice skating at the arena. I had never gone ice skating before and asked her one day if I could go with her and her friend Lucy. We got in the car to go pick up Lucy with the usual silence the whole ride. When we…
Impact of Technological Innovations in Canada During the beginning of Canada’s time, how do you consider it was to live without any of the machines and technologies that are available to us today? Was it easy to get through or was it very difficult to do things that we refer to as simple? Fortunately, owing to amazing Canadian inventors, many daily Canadian problems have been solved and Canada has been able to prosper as a great nation. This is shown when helpful inventions make our lives…
Hot springs hair freezing competition the event requires people to come up the craziest frozen hair possible but for the best way hot springs suggest contestants to do is have a lot of hair so the contestants can have a better chance at winning the competition and they also recommend coming to the resort when it is really cold out like when it’s below 4*F (-20*C) then the hair will freeze at temperatures above that while at the contest is open for the entire month of February. After checking…
time in NHL history, a live play by play was announced, using an upright telephone, from the rafters of the Mutual Street Arena here in Toronto. Foster Hewitt, the son of respected journalist William Hewitt, was born in Toronto. He is a passionate hockey fan. “I never actually expected to become a sports broadcaster. I always just expected to write the articles about the game afterwards.” Foster said in an interview with the press. The game was between the Toronto St. Pats and the Montreal…
Like ping pong and pool, air hockey is a fun, table-based game that incorporates hand-eye coordination with strategy to win. A typical air hockey table is about 4'x6' in size. The game surface of the table is perforated with hundreds of tiny holes. These holes allow air to flow through them and puck to glide smoothly. The playing field can be covered with blue and red lines similar to those seen in ice hockey. When you begin playing, you pick one player as the server. The player serves the…
The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional hockey team that has 30 different teams within it. Of those 30 different teams, 16 are in the Eastern Conference, and 14 are in the Western conference. The statistics recorded in the NHL are used for anything from teams drafting players, to fans betting on games. Teams want to draft players who’s induvial statistics can help their overall winning percentage. On the other hand, Fans like to bet on whether a team will win or lose a game. The…
With a clap of her well-manicured hands, Laura announces that the campers are to begin ice skating. Claire and I head to the rental station, where a large cluster of people socialize by, and request for kids size twelve skates. The lady at the counter, who has wild purple hair, a nose ring, and a snake tattoo crawling up her arm, turns around and pulls out a pair of comically yellow ice skates. “Sorry, hon’, that’s the only pair we have,” she drawls in her deep strong southern accent…
questioned the bleacher already filled with youth hockey players, the man in front of me answered that many of the girls teams around Stamford had purchased tickets. I couldn’t help but chime in that I was glad they were getting seated first and he agreed, saying he’d be happy to stand, the girls are who are important today. With the inaugural game of the NWHL young girls sporting sticks and skates have a new type of role model, a type of female hockey player that is not playing merely as a…
something at which they are good. Whether it be playing cards, writing books, or maybe surfing or painting, everyone has at least one thing at which they are good, or at least something in which they are confident. Hockey is that thing for me. “I enjoy playing hockey, in fact I am great at hockey,” as Donald Trump would say, although I am not great. I am good, but have many things to learn; last year I shot pucks every day in my garage because I could barely shoot and pass, not to mention…
Miracle on Ice Michael Arbuiso is probably the best ice hockey player ever.He is the caption of his high school hockey team and he is a legend the NHL is waiting for.Michael can score,pass,check,you name it.In his junior year Michael set a record that Sidney Crosby or John Tavares hadn’t set in their career yet, 100 goals,97 assists,in just 82 games.Now Michael is in his senior year and his dream is so close to being fulfilled,after this year Arbuiso Is the first overall pick of the…