What was the first puck made out of?

Answer 1

The first pucks were made of whatever the players could find! They usually played with stones or coal, but sometimes played with frozen horse or cow droppings. They would even play with the baked potatoes that their mothers would put in their skates to keep them warm. Wooden pucks were also used, but rubber pucks weren't used until the late 1880's.

Answer 2

Originally a ball or piece of wood was used. The first pucks were made in the 1870s by slicing a rubber ball into a disc and then trimming it square. The fist round pucks were made and used by the Montreal Victoria Hockey Club in the 1880s. In the early 1900s, pucks were made of two pieces of old tire rubber glued together. This puck was very unreliable, however. On one occasion it even resulted in a disputed no goal because the puck split in half and only one half of it entered the net. So in 1940, Art Ross designed the regulation puck that is still used today.

Answer 3

The first hockey pucks were made out of rubber or wood, but were square, not round. The first indoor Ice Hockey game at Montreal's Victoria Skating Rink (later home to the Canadiens) in 1873 used a round wooden puck.

Answer 4

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