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the National Hockey League (NHL), fighting is a culture that has been a part of the sport for over a century and deserves to be forever glorified due to the excitement it delivers on witnessing fans and players that love to drop the gloves, or also known as fighting. The NHL has been around since 1917, and since then, dropping the gloves has been somewhat inevitable. Though fighting on the streets or in public is frowned upon, it is encouraged during a game of professional ice hockey. Fighting…

The Game of Hockey Hockey is a physical game and many guidelines are needed to keep the game safe. The game has rules, special equipment, and penalties to keep it safe. In hockey there are a lot of rules that players are required to follow. Some rules of the game are that the player must hit the puck with the stick to score, the puck can be kicked, but not into the net to score. On the ice there are three forwards, one goalie, and two defensemen. The only time a team has less than six…

pounding, helmets banging, referees pushing and pulling, blood dripping onto the ice until the feuding players are finally sent to their penalty boxes. For over 100 years, the professional ice hockey leagues of North America have allowed fighting in their games. In most professional hockey games in North America fights occur in almost every game, however, many people want it to be banned. I hope that this letter will strengthen your position that fighting is beneficial to professional ice…

Physical altercations must be removed from the National Hockey League due to them creating an added, tremendous, risk of traumatic injuries or deaths. Whether it’s gashes, broken bones or torn muscles through typical ice hockey play in the NHL, each moment of play is riddled with a high chance of receiving a traumatic injury. Fighting only raises this already steep risk of getting hurt and creates a fatal possibility along with a higher concussion chance. Though being a rare occurrence, some…

the hockey games, he’d be cheering for goals and yelling at the referees, and I would always be so confused. “What are they doing?” i’d ask my dad. He’d only reply with, “playing hockey,” and then he’d go back to the game. I never understood why he was so into the game until I got older and ended up watching it next to him. Now I still ask that same question, only its towards the referee’s. “Crap calls, that's what.” Dad always got into the games, actually my whole family consists of hockey…

Manon Rheaume is a female ice hockey goaltender who is best known for being the first woman to play in the NHL. Manon was born in Beauport, Ontario on February 24th, 1972. Manon was the second child in her family of five. Her parents, Nicole and Pierre Rheaume also gave birth to two boys. Martin, who is older than Manon, and Pascal who is the youngest. Manon always grew up with a passion for hockey. She trained with boys and played on boys’ teams when she was in minor hockey because, at that…

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…

Pond Hockey and Civic Duty Whether at a stadium with referees and organized periods, or a pick up game with friends on the pond behind my house, I have always enjoyed hockey. However, each of these two styles of play is quite different. A good example of this is when the goalie covers the puck by their goal. In professional hockey, the players are always taught that until the referee blows the whistle, they are to jab their stick at the goalie and his glove in an attempt to knock the puck out…

Teams in the NHL have a wide variety of skill and playing styles, some teams, like the Capitals, have shown that not everyone needs to be a standout player to take your team to the top of the leaderboards. Others, like the Oilers, shows that even after acquiring lots of young talent, you can still be one of the worst teams in the league. This paper will try to classify teams in the NHL based on the standings of each team. The first type of team is the dynasty teams. These teams are almost…

were pretty small, there is definitely more opportunity for the girls today,” said Katie Larson, former LDC hockey player. The LDC girls hockey program started about as almost nothing but, as the years have gone by the program has developed significantly. It all started when Mr. Brian Johnson took over the girls high school program in 2000. As a young child, Johnson was involved in hockey. “Well I know I could skate before I could ride a two wheel bike, which is kind of backwards, that you can…