Ice Hockey



"He prefers to carry out the assessments and the mass is wild." Community expressions used to the fuss about a hockey game. The hockey is a fast-paced sport played on the ice or in a field in a parking lot, road or on any surface. Living teams against each other, chasing their sticks disc or a ball on the surface, the keeper of the network. This scenario is acted in time and in the time that children and adults, men and women, lay people and professionals, not on ice runners, roller skates, inline wheels and shoes to play hockey.

There are basically two types of basis of the ice hockey: the terrain and ice. All other rules to play, not only varies depending on the equipment and the surface. Field hockey played on grass on a plot, its players usually the women with a ball and tough rounds without limitation floor. It is fast, hard and difficult, but not the support, with its ice.

Ice hockey is a fast; difficult dominated the sport in his years of training by the North Americans, especially Canadians. Although its origins are unclear, it is the national sport of Canada (of). While the Americans based on the concentrate, baseball, and the World Series, the Canadians expect with interest the National Hockey League (NHL) and the number of the Stanley Cup qualification. Although the American and Canadian teams play against each other, their nationality is that the countries mixed own people. Hockey is a pot merger.

May rules, but the game is not changed significantly over the past decades. The game is on the outer side of the pond and skating sites, within the major arenas. In 1904 he became a professional. The International Pro-League formed in Michigan, lasted until 1907. For 1910, the National Association of hockey based on the day, followed in 1914 by the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA). In 1914, the two groups, he fought for Lord Stanley's Cup. The myth is that the ice hockey began.

The First World War was an end to the dreams of hockey at the high level. After the war, a new job - Draft (1917). It is fast the dream of many young Canadians play in the league following the example of their heroes. There were only five members of the franchise: The Montreal Canadians, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, the Quebec Bulldogs and Toronto Arenas.

The NHL plays against the PCHA rivals until it worked. Another rival, the Western Canadian Hockey League, there is no pressure in the melee, but in 1921, after 1926, there were no rivals. The NHL has decided to colonel. He did not look back, after adding franchised franchise.
The NHL is not the only action happens in ice hockey. People play in the protection of minors and the College and the University. There are leagues in the world, where the best in North America, to the best-Europe and elsewhere. There is also the Olympic Games. At this level, men and women, also play some of the most beautiful hockey.

In the first year as an Olympic sport, 1920 Winnipeg Falcons, the United States for gold. Canada is back in the early years, won in1924, 1928, 1932, 1948 and 1952. The United States won gold in 1960 and 1980. For some time, the Russians dominated won eight gold medals. Since then, Finland, Sweden and other European nations have their skills. But in 2002 the men in Canada was once again at the top of the grandstand. The Canadians, the team beat the Americans. The Canadians have repeated their victory in 2006. Unfortunately, the men do not have.