Field hockey is a sport played by both men and woman and is considered to be one of the oldest sports in the world. It’s played with a curved stick and a hard‚ small ball. The objective of the game is to score goals and defend your own. It started out as folk culture‚ just like most sports‚ so exact origins of when and who first played the game are unknown‚ but there are still many traces and variations of the sport from the past. In 510 B.C.‚ a group of people in Ancient Greece had played a field-hockey
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The game of hockey originated in Canada as far back as 1875‚ and has become one of the worlds most popular sports. The sport is primarily played on ice and involves players using sticks to project a puck into the opposing teams goal net. Typically being more popular in the north due to cold weather‚ hockey is actually popular all over the world and is loved by millions of people. Being a fantastic and entertaining game‚ hockey unfortunately holds a reputation of being a violent sport and can be
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National Hockey League Olympic Athletes In the 2014 Winter Olympics‚ National Hockey League (NHL) should allow players to participate in the games due to the belief that it provides the players‚ current‚ and potential fans the opportunity to participate on the world stage of hockey. The Olympics only occur once every four years and it would be unpatriotic to deny NHL players the opportunity to represent their home countries at the Olympics. The Olympic Games give the fans a chance to
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and why. I believe ice hockey is superlative because of its complexity and difficulty‚ requiring players to exhibit extremely difficult skills with the finest timing‚ strength‚ and precision‚ as well as how it brings family and friends together. I have spent countless hours watching‚ playing‚ and talking about hockey with some of the people I am closest to. For me it is clear‚ there is no greater sport than hockey. Most people would agree‚ the skills employed in hockey are nothing short of spectacular
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While many Northern Ontario boys and girls start their hockey careers before entering pre-school‚ I expressed no interest in learning the fundamentals of ice-skating‚ let alone hockey‚ until the age of seven years‚ which is considered late by Canadian standards. Many of my school friends played the game Playing house league hockey for two seasons was the obvious choice for my rudimentary skills. I enjoyed the comaraderie (expand on this). My skating had improved immensely since the early days
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Hockey is by far my favorite sport of all time. I love the environment‚ and all the technique involved in the sport. Everything from slap shot‚ to wrist shots‚ to fighting‚ to passing‚ and even fighting for the puck on the boards has always brought my attention. The amount of effort that it takes to be good at this sport is absolutely ridiculous. When talk about hard work and dedication‚ you definitely need it to play this sport. I’ve tried ice skating before and it really didn’t turn out to well
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BASIC RULES OF ICE HOCKEY The objective of hockey is to score more goals than your opponent on their goaltender and to have fun! Playing Surface There are five (5) lines on the ice‚ two (2) goal lines (both at the end of the ice)‚ two (2) blue lines‚ separating the offensive/defensive zones from the neutral zone‚ and the centre red line. The red line is not in play when making stretch passes. Before the NHL lockout in the 2004-05 seasons‚ players could not make two lined passes; resulted
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Heading towards a Hockey game one Saturday afternoon‚ my friends and I decided to take the fastest route to beat rush hour. My good friend Anna was driving her luxurious Lexus and I was seating on the passenger seat. While my friends‚ Emily and Dakota were in the back seat. We were listening and singing along to the popular song by Justin Bieber “Sorry”. Anna was using the GPS on her smart phone and at the same time‚ she decided to snapchat the moment. She was recording the sing-along while driving
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of life. And it is from this resentment‚ the story The Hockey Sweater was written. The Hockey Sweater is a story told from the perspective of a young boy living in a small town in Quebec. He‚ like all the kids his age loved hockey‚ especially the Montreal Canadiens. He is so deeply loyal to his French heritage that he hates the Toronto Maple Leafs and anything about them for the sole reason that they are not French. Roch Carrier’s The Hockey Sweater is an allegory underlining the tensions found between
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Hockey The first recorded use of the word "hockey" is from the 1773 book Juvenile Sports and Pastimes‚ to Which Are Prefixed‚ Memoirs of the Author: Including a New Mode of Infant Education‚ by Richard Johnson (Pseud. Master Michel Angelo)‚ whose chapter XI was titled "New Improvements on the Game of Hockey".[2] The belief that hockey was mentioned in a 1363 proclamation by King Edward III of England is based on modern translations of the proclamation‚ which was originally in Latin and explicitly
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