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Hockey

            
             If you were to walk down the street in an average Canadian city and ask the question, "What is your favorite sport?" most people are likely to answer with hockey. Hockey is a Canadian game that defines us as a nation and as a culture. We are the birthplace of the sport and our people have dominated the game since the beginning. Many of the greatest players to ever play the game have been Canadian. It is a facet of everyday life in most Canadian homes. Weather it is watching hockey or talking about hockey or even playing hockey, most Canadians are involved with some aspect of hockey. The morning paper and radio broadcasts provide all Canadian homes with information and statistics on the game played the night before. Television allows fans to watch games, sometimes with a better view of the action than if they had been there themselves. Drivers should be on the lookout for the many young people playing hockey in the street. .
             There have been many different theories as to where the game of hockey originated. One of the most compelling arguments is that hockey was born in Nova Scotia. Therioies suggest that hockey originated in 1800 in Nova Scotia, where the game of Hurley was adapted for the ice to be played on ponds. Many Canadian believe this theory to be true. Hockey is recognized as Canada's national sport and its binds us patriotically. While watching the news a few weeks ago, there was a story about a new theory of where hockey started from. This theory stated that the United States was the actual first place where hockey was played. When the reporter asked people on the street their opinion on this theory some people were getting down right mad at it. Many people could not believe the audacity of this claim. How could hockey be created somewhere else but Canada? That's blasphemy! This shows how much of an impact the sport has on our nation. We love it almost more than we love our country.


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1. Mr. Hockey and Mr. Canada - Gordie Howe

... Canadians across the land via school and church (Robidoux, 211). This brief summary of Canadian sports history, despite mostly being about lacrosse instead of hockey, aptly describes the process required for a sport to become a household name. For that process to begin the sport must first be standardized and ... even helping strangers voluntarily and with no expectation of reward, showing that he was a genuine person rather than someone putting on an act for hockey fans (Howe, 220). They continue to explain that his childhood, growing up in Saskatoon in the '30s as a definite reason for...

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2. Girls Hockey vs Boys Ice Hockey

... several differences in each game with the bylaws as well as origin. Although the United States is more heavily populated with females than males, ice hockey is a predominately male dominated sport. Over recent years, ice hockey's primary organization, USA Hockey has noted that there is twice the number of female participants registered over male participants. Women have started to make a difference in USA ... the normal process of playing the puck, providing there has been no overt hip, shoulder or arm contact to physically force the opponent off of the puck. In men's ice hockey, full b...

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3. Accidents in Hockey

... ice, he is constantly being pounded into the boards, shoulder first. The glenohumeral was often being injuried mainly from fighting and accidental contact. Hockey manufactures are constantly trying to improve shoulder pads so this injury will not happen. The knee followed closely behind the shoulder being injured 11% ... 10% of the time. The cruciate ligament and meniscal were injured 3% of the time. Head injuries are the third most common type of hockey injury accounting for 8% of all injuries. If you were to include facial injuries which would be a combination of the head, teeth/mouth...

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4. Hockey

... : excitement, action, physical fitness, talent, competitiveness, and enjoyment. There is only one sport that comes to mind when combining all these outstanding qualities. Hockey!! Hockey is a very popular sport that is now played all around the world. Many sports concentrate only on Americans and how great they are. That is not the ... muscular, and endurance properties. Even better, the aspect of skating putts on a adding emphasis of your lower body. Another great aspect of hockey is that it makes you work. Hockey is one of the few sports where working together is important to overall su...

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5. Field Hockey History

... above the shoulder. They also began to play with a sphere as a ball instead of a rubber cube. They also instituted the striking circle (Field Hockey Tournament On-line- "History of the Game") The British army introduced the game to it's many colonies, including India and others. This lead to the ... catching on the first women's club appearing in East Mosley, England in 1887. This was quickly followed by the creation of the All England Women's Hockey Association in 1889. The sport then took off and was spread across the Atlantic in 1901. Constance Applebee introduced the sport to the U.S....

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6. Hockey, The Rodney Dangerfield Of Sports

... ABC. All of those stations are free to a viewer with a television. There is no monthly charge for service of those stations unlike ESPN. This is where hockey gets shafted, the NHL is the only sport that has its championship game or series on cable TV where only a specific audience as access to it as opposed ... . Even the other three sports have their first round games on network television. But some people who even have cable, can't watch a first round game of hockey in the playoffs. Also, the way that the NHL is covered in the newspapers and on TV is different to that of other sports. W...

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7. Fighting in NHL Hockey

... the world which cannot be seen in any other sports. In this essay, I will be arguing that fighting in Ice hockey (NHL) should be in fact allowed at the right time and right place. After all, opposite to what the stereotypes may claim, fighting in ... have been increasing throughout time, especially in the last 3 decades. This has been a key factor to why people are very against hockey fights but to one's surprise, concussions are rarely caused by hockey fights. Only 7.3 % of the concussions are caused by fights. According to Goodman's study, the rest are caused by, players ... away fr...

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8. Violence In Hockey

... of behavior that is directed toward the goal of harming another person who is avoiding hostility. For example a player slashes another player in hockey. Hostile Aggression is the intent to make the victim suffer as part of the goal. The victims suffering is induced by pain reinforcement ... . Usually this aggression is accompanied by anger and winning is no longer important. For example a player fights another player during a hockey game. Instrumental Aggression is the intention to harm another person, but there is an external reward to the goal in a form of currency, success ... rules a...

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9. One of The Greatest Pastimes, Field Hockey

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