Hockey

The National Hockey Leauge President Gary Bettman and the NHL Players to boycott the 2018 Winter Olympics to protest South Korea’s dog meat trade slaughters that butcher approximately 3 million dogs each year. Worse yet, the dogs are tortured in the belief that their horrific suffering makes the meat taste better — they may be hung, electrocuted and cooked alive. Pyeongchang Olympic organizers consider securing the participation of NHL players to be of critical importance, as ice hockey is one…

the ice for extra practice. I would always watch ice hockey on TV and I would go to the Los Angeles Kings games sometimes. I would look up at them and wish to be just like them one day! I grew up in Glendora, which was not much of a hockey city, but that didn't mean anything to me! It is a bit of a rough drive for my parents to drive out to Ontario every Tuesday nights so a special thanks to them for supporting me with hockey. Hockey runs throughout my family and they have…

Alexa Guercia How Hockey Effects the Economy: The National Hockey League started in the United States in 1942 and consisted of the original 6 teams: Boston Bruins, Chicago Black Hawks, Detroit Red Wings, Montreal Canadians, New York Rangers, and the Toronto Maple Leafs. Hockey is ranked the fourth major league sport in North America in terms of revenue and has made an impact on not only the spectators but on the economy as well(S. Szymanksi, 2006). From the Winter Classic, to the All Star…

Gary Bettman, the National Hockey League commissioner, said that the NHL will not be participating in the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games. The NHL has been going to the Olympics since 1998. Many fans and players are upset and, even angry at the NHL for not sending their players to one of the greatest hockey tournaments in the world. Some cons for the ban are. There was a poll in Canada to see if people were with Gary Bettman or against the decision. 62% of the people said that they did…

Ice hockey is a game of skill, agility, and retribution. Valerie Wood’s Enforcer immerses the reader into the world of ice hockey, focusing on the toll the sport takes on one particular team position. The enforcer on a hockey team is the guy that habitually protects his teammates through physical retaliation on the ice. If you ever witness a gloves-off fight during a hockey game, chances are that it is being instigated by the team’s enforcer. While they can play a vital and strategic role on the…

Keim (2012) states that fighting is a crucial element of hockey. Since the argument claimed by the author is located in the second paragraph and the reasons are situated after the argument, the article presents a deductive organization. The three reasons provided by the author to support his thesis statement are: Physical punishment applied by the own players is an effective measure to restrain condemnable behaviour during the match; Hockey is an aggressive game by nature; Brawling solves…

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 hockey games. I support fighting in hockey because it protects players, entertains the fans, and bonds teams as…

Many boys growing up playing hockey dreamed of becoming pro hockey players, playing in the National Hockey League (NHL) and eventually winning the Stanley Cup, the championship trophy of the NHL. Unlike them, girls who grew up playing hockey played to increase their chances on being able to go to college on a scholarship or maybe play in the Olympics, if they were lucky. Many of these girls saw their hockey careers end after they graduated college. A few of the lucky ones, who were skilled…

game. That was hard for not only me, but for the whole team. It was stressful, considering we were a great team the season before. It hurt me in a big way, but it made me stronger in an even bigger way. In the 2015-2016 hockey season, I played for the New Ulm Sleepy Eye 15uA hockey team. This was a major step from the last season, when I was in 12uB. My team and I won almost every game when I was a 12u. I was so used to winning. The competition was so weak that we didn’t have to try to win…

When it starts everything disappears the cold the noise everything. It all vanishes. At least that's how it felt when I got second at the state hockey tournament, my greatest achievement in high school so far. This experience taught me to always work hard and to have fun while doing it. Before I moved to Vermillion South Dakota I was passionate about hockey so I sought out the closet team which was in Yankton. Learning how to play with a new team was difficult because I didn't know anyone on my…