Hockey

My biggest pet peeve is Hockey players that think they are better than figure skaters. The often seem to always look down on us like we’re not as important as they are. The first time I remember seeing it happening was just during practice hockey players would always come early and get in the way during skating rink time. Recently when hockey practice was before us, they stayed late and took some of our time on the ice. The rink has open skating and open hockey. There are never skaters their…

LOVE hockey Hockey is Canada’s National Winter Sport and is a symbol of Canada. Us Canadian are very competitive about the game. A lot of us start hockey as early as we can slip into skate and hold a stick. When we start in our early years we build skill and teamwork. In this way hockey is a teamwork sport. It is a great way to bring everyone together. For example, you could be playing at your pond with friends or at a pub with fans around you. You meet people by the greatness of hockey.…

Introduction For a variety of reasons, ice hockey has reached a point where its growth has stagnated in its most popular countries. In these countries, participation rates are in decline and the popularity of ice hockey compared to other sports is also in decline. Fortunately for the International Ice Hockey Federation, also known as the IIHF, the sport of ice hockey has many countries that are waiting to be tapped into. These countries currently have low interest in hockey but, at the same…

Playing dek hockey since I was six years old was a journey. My driveway is where it all started. “Bang!” The shot came at me. I stuck up my glove and made the split save, and then crashed down on the rough concrete. All of my friends yelled “ohhhhh!” I got up from the split and said “big save,” in a cocky way of course. All of the times I spent watching Marc Andre Fleury make huge saves, had all led up to this point. I was so delighted. Seven Years later, after this occurrence. Suddenly,…

Shot Stopping: Soccer vs. Ice Hockey Goalies Have you ever realized the differences between soccer and hockey goalies? They are different in their equipment, positioning, rebounds, penalties, and how they save different shots. I will describe how soccer and hockey goalies have differing shot-stopping abilities, but also tell you why these two goalies have a few important similarities. Soccer is a physical sport that is played with eleven players on a grass or turf field. The eleven players are…

Imagine a rocket, specifically molded, perfectly symmetrical, prepared to do it’s job exactly how it needs to with no room for error. Seems almost perfect, on the other hand we have the Rockets, my AAA hockey team the summer before sixth grade. It was made up of players from the La Crosse area who played and practiced together every summer for the last few years. We weren’t exactly the most organized team in the sense of having professional attitudes. The ceiling at our practice arena had leaks…

Gretzky is one of the greatest players to play hockey. His many hard to reach records like most goals in a season, gave him the name “The Great One” because of his outstanding skills. Wayne Gretzky completely transformed hockey because he changed the style of how hockey was played, he attracted americans who were naive of the rules of hockey, and after retirement he coaches his revolutionary style of hockey. Wayne Gretzky changed the style of how hockey is played. For example, most of Gretzkys…

came of the ice. They had just scored another goal in the game against Wisconsin and the score was now 2:1 with them winning. Yet he wasn’t in goal for this game either. Derek is one of the two goalies on the Lincoln Stars Hockey team and is going to Harvard next year to play hockey, and for school. The past summer he has been working really hard and studying as well as he possibly can so he does good next year at Harvard, which is going to be a tough school that will expect a lot from him. He…

percent of the shots you don’t take!”- Wayne Gretzky. This was one of Wayne Gretzky’s amazing quotes, and will be passed on forever, and . He is a big inspiration to me. Wayne Gretzky, also known as “The Great One,” was and still is “the greatest ice hockey player ever.” When he was 13 he had more than 1,000 goals scored. As he got older and older he won more and more trophies, scored tons of goals, and broke a lot of records. After he retired he held 61 NHL records, and 6 All-Star records,…

cause brain damage and have injuries more serious down the road. Even though people can get hurt and some people do not like fighting, the NHL should keep fighting because it makes the game more entertaining and hockey players typically do not get hurt from the fighting. Some may say that hockey should not have fighting because it promotes violence. “However, it is their choice to watch the sport and it makes more people buy the tickets to we should keep it. For example, they have had to make…