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Ice Hockey is a sport with 2 teams 2 nets and a puck. Each team has a goalie with a lot of padding on. Ice Hockey has 3 quarters that are 15 min long. You can "check" or hit a person with your own body but not with the hockey stick. And some times you might get in a fist fight until some one gets knocked to they ground. That is just a brief discription on hackey. :)
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How many players are in a hockie team?
NHL teams list 22, 12 forwards 8 defence men and 2 goaltenders.
How did the Iroquois entertain themselves?
I'm guessing with music, stories, walks through nature, being social, art, sex, food....(just like all other humans!!)
Why is hockey called hockey?
The name "hockie" (now Hockey) seems to have been first recorded in Ireland in 1527 and probably comes from the French word "hoquet" meaning "shepherds crook". It's called hockey (Ice or Roller) because it is a variation of Field Hockey (Offical Name Hockey, formally known as Field Hockey). Some also say that in the old days, when hockey was being invented, they had to use the only part of the livestock that they couldn't sell at market, the boney Hock. The Hock is the horse or cow equivelant of our heel. The other more stupid version is that it was going to be called puckie because of the puck. But in one game a hawk flew down and took the puck from the ice because it thought it was a small animal. So they called it "hawk-y" or hockey.
Who Founded NHL?
Nobody knows for certain, since hockey has been played for thousands of years, but here is input from several WikiAnswers contributors:Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.This games was played with curved sticks and a ball can be found in the histories of many cultures. In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c.600 BC in Ancient Greece. In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1,000 years.[Most evidence of hockey-like games during the Middle Ages is found in legislation concerning sports and games. Similar to Edward's proclamation was the Galway Statute enacted in Ireland in 1527, which banned certain types of ball games, including hockey.Drawings of hockey have been found in 4000-year-old tombs in EgyptThere are Greek statues of people playing hockey dating from around 500 BCEFar-Eastern and South American cultures have played hockey for between 600 and 1000 yearsVarious rulers in the Middle Ages tried to ban some forms of "hockie"Modern day hockey is attributed to being started in the early to mid 1800's in EnglandIce HockeyIn the town of Windsor, Nova Scotia, considered one of the birthplaces of the game, a story has long circulated regarding a Colonel Hockey, stationed at the garrison on Fort Edward. The Colonel used the game to keep his troops conditioned, and the game soon adopted his name, as many referred to these workouts as "Hockey's Game." Though there is no official documentation backing either claim, timing lends credence to the Colonel's story. The British Army list, housed in the Library of Nova Scotia's General Assembly in Halifax, lists a John Hockey serving in the mid-1800s when the name of the game was adopted.No one person really invented the game. People in Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario sort of started playing a game on ice that was a combination of lacrosse and Irish games like hurley and bandy.About 1897 , a Mr. J.G.A. Creighton, who was a student at McGill University and an avid player, codified and published the first set of hockey rules.
Who invented field hockey?
Field hockey, in its modern form, was first played in the early 1870s by Middlesex (London) cricket clubs, particularly Teddington, as an alternative winter sport for those who didn't want to play football.
