Ice rink

goal or target, have been played somewhere in the world since the Middle Ages. Ice Hockey is a team sport played on a large surface of ice. Players wear ice skates with sharp blades that glide smoothly along the ice surface. Each team has anywhere from 12 to 30 or more players with at least one goalie. Players are designed to have three forwards, a center, a right and left wing, two defensive players and a goalie. Ice Hockey originated in the 1800s or mid-1850s by British soldiers based on…

Vladimir Tarasenko has been deemed as an elite shooter, now he is proving it through the stats in his ice hockey career. He is on the St. Louis Blues, and is a right winger, who has the most points on his team. He is from a city in Russia, called Yaroslavl, where he first learned how to play the sport of ice hockey. This is his sixth season with the St. Louis Blues and his sixth season in the National Hockey League. Vladimir Tarasenko was born in Yaroslavl, Russia (The Soviet Union…

best impressions on the ice. What makes the NAHA Tournament so special is the amount of college coaches watching at every game. Every Division I and III team is represented by a coach or scout. So the pressure is on for every game, as every player wants their name to be remembered. The Minnesota Junior Whitecaps started the tournament strong, winning the first four games, and bringing us to the championship game. We all sat anxiously waiting for our turn to take the ice for the biggest game of…

jump besides an axel, which has an extra half rotation. I had never even done a single jump before, but I immediately wanted to try a it, because I had always wondered what landing a “hard” jump felt like, and besides, I had a lot of free time on the ice because I did not have very much to practice yet. I told my mom and my coach that I wanted to try a lutz, and they both agreed, and my coach even said she could help me…

Saturday afternoon in December and frighteningly cold out. Becca had gone to the ice rink to watch Ashley skate. Sitting on the bleachers, freezing, wishing her best friend was a gymnast or even a pianist, she reached up and pulled her hat over her ears. She peered through the glass wall, out to the ice, and quickly forgot about her frozen extremities. Ashley’s coach stood scrutinizing her as she sped across the ice, jumped high in the air, spun around into a blur of beautiful colors and…

The Rink Of Happiness In desperate moments, time seems to drag on for eternities. The clock in the Detroit Lakes Hockey Arena did just that. It was the section final girls hockey game. We, the Storm’n Sabres, were playing the Roseau Rams for a chance to go to the Xcel Energy Center to participate State Hockey Tournament. Winning this game would mark the first time in history that the Storm’n Sabres Girl’s Hockey made it to the state tournament. The arena was old fashioned and looked like a…

In a 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…

There, up on the shelf, sits my shiny red hockey stick. The white tape is worn from my last time on the ice. Black puck marks on the white tape stand out and haunt me back to my last competitive hockey game that resulted in a devastating loss. No, it is not just any hockey stick. The stick that now sits and collects dust followed me on a long journey to places including New York City, Minneapolis, and Pittsburg. At times, it would feel me tremendously shaking with nerves and other times holding…

brush upon my face. Instantly, the fond memory of my first rink experience poped up in my head when my cousin got an assist for his Norwood Mustangs varsity hockey team. I was young, only around six or seven years old. I remember him having a clear shot, but passing the puck to his linemate for the sure goal. Later in the game, I vividly remember him picking up the puck and bringing it to the referee who was at the opposite end of the ice. I headed towards the locker room and got prepared for a…

percent effort skating for a spot on their winter team in Omaha. Not to mention, their team is mostly the same players every year, so in reality seventy-five percent of these kids played together all year long. Needless to say, when I arrived at the rink I went to the locker room to find the rest of my team just as nervous as I…