Hockey

city of ten million people, one sport was able to create an identity for its inhabitants, and represent what it meant to be a proud fan of their local team. The sport is Ice Hockey, and the city is Chicago. In the city of Chicago, people always enjoyed going to sports events, but it wasn’t until the Blackhawks became a hockey powerhouse that the city realized what it meant to be a true fan. Because of this sport, the people of Chicago were able to form their identity and be proud of a team they…

the rink for hockey practice or so I thought. Instead I was waiting to be called into a room. Little did I know I was about to hear those three dreaded words, the words no person ever wants to hear ‘You have cancer’. Everything around me stopped for a brief second while I sat trying to comprehend what was happening. My mother was crying, the doctor was talking and I just sat, unsure of how to react. I knew from that moment on I was about to face the biggest fight of my life. Hockey is and…

Watching my older sister picking up a hockey stick at a young age sparked my competitive nature, as there was no chance she was going to be better than me! I was brought up in a hockey family where sport has always played a key part of our lifestyle. Through my love of the game I have developed several Injuries over the years ranging from broken bones, shin splints to more recently Osgood-Schlatter’s disease, all of which have prevented me from playing from time to time. This is how I discovered…

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to be an Olympic hockey player. Hockey is an event in the winter Olympics which is held in South Korea. Competition is one of the key things you need to know about hockey. The main goal of the event is to get the hockey puck in the goal. The dimensions of the hockey rink are 200 feet long and 100 feet wide that's 15 feet wider than an NHL hockey rink. Every goal in hockey is one point to the team that scored. A athlete gets ranked on how he or she…

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…

in a couple months. This is also a time that certain hockey fans – you know the breed – come out of the woodwork to laud these battered soldiers’ toughness and grit. They come equipped with memes comparing their hardy hockey heroes to those pansies on the soccer or basketball benches. Search the #PleaseLikeMySport hashtag on Twitter and you will find plenty of these fans, blissfully unaware that they are the butt of the joke. I get it, hockey players are tough. You cannot make it to the NHL…

Hockey sticks aren’t like they are now, made of fiberglass with a small curve and a slight bend. They have evolved from bamboo then to willow tree branches in the mid-1800s which was produced in India. After they found that this was a hard way to play the game they invested in actually carving hockey sticks out of wood with straight blades. These wood hockey sticks use to have a long bend in the end which was impossible to hit on the reverse side the hook was 124mm across. By 1850 and 1860…

article “Our National Blood Sport,” the National Hockey League is an “institution that celebrates violence” given that hockey “was always about dominating or intimidating other players…through skill, or bodychecking, or speed, or fighting.” While we know that violence is common in the National Hockey League, most of us did not know that it was Chara’s hit that caused the emergence of the five-point…

diverse personality. This season there a variety of sports such as, cross country, soccer, field hockey, and volleyball. Field hockey is a new and fun sport for girls all ages. This is a great way to get active and is a prominent place to do so. I had the pleasure of interviewing a member of a past national Canadian team, our very own coach Ms. O’Reilly Q: What is your prior experience with field hockey? A: I played all throughout high school and university. I was trained overseas in Holland. I…

Hockey I love hockey and I also love playing it. Before I came to Canada, I didn’t know hockey existed in Canada. When I started school in Canada, I was in grade four (4), I played hockey for the first time and I loved it right away. Did I forget to mention, I was good at it too even though I never played it before that. I learned about hockey in school and every times I had gym class, I couldn’t wait to go and play. In grade five (5), I was in a floor hockey team. I do not play ice hockey due…