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Growing up in Canada we have hockey in our blood, I remember organizing a street hockey league when I was about 12 years old, I got my friends to organize teams on their block and I scheduled regular games in the parking lot behind an Orthodox Church...I usually played either defense or goalie and was one of the highest scorers despite being on the defensive end of things...even scored a couple goals playing goalie ( not on myself )...my one failing grace was that I couldn't skate worth a darn, so every time we played on ice I had to play net.
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The Trials
and the Tribulations of Lord Stanley's Cup:
by Egaladeist
Many
of the stories surrounding the Stanley Cup are so bizzare that you'd
swear they never could have happened...but they did.
It's
been kicked across a river, been defaced with names, thrown into
swimming pools to see if it could float, used as a planter, left beside
a road, used as a dog food bowl, urinated in, bent and later repaired
by a garage, lost by an airport, used as a bird feeder, names have been
mispelled and not corrected, has been on the back of a motorcycle, in a
sauna, been used as an engagement ring bearer, used in a baptism, wore
a lifejacket while on a boat, been to a soccer game in Russia, rode a
rollar coaster, and the list goes on.
Today,
there are three Cups that are used, the original Cup ( which most of
these stories relate to ), the Cup that's presented at the game, and
the one that's situated in the Hockey Hall of Fame.
I
remember reading a story once where it was misplaced and no one knew
where it was, luckily someone found it and returned it about a week
later after the finder had his own Stanley Cup celebrations with his
friends.
A Brief
Hockey History:
by Various
Organized
hockey has been around for well over a century...years before there was
a Stanley Cup...but the first Stanley Cup game was held on March 17th,
1894.
1916
was the first year an American team, the Portland Rosebuds, played for
the Stanley Cup...the next year an American team, the Seattle
Metropolitans, won the cup for the first time.
The NHA was replaced by the new NHL in
1917.
1919
was the first year the Cup was not awarded to any team...because of the
influenza epidemic even the teams were affected and a Montreal player
died from it.
In
1924 the last team to win the cup outside of the NHL was the Victoria
Cougars of the WHL ( Western Hockey League ). The next year the NHL was
granted exclusive control of the Cup.
The 2004-5 season was the second time no Stanley Cup was awarded
because of a Lock-Out.
Hockey Rules made Easy:
by Jason Tarasi
If you're a newcomer to the game of
hockey you may find the rules of the game a bit confusing, but with a
little self-educating you'll pick up them right away. When you
understand the hockey penalties, you'll find the game more enlightening
regardless of whether you're playing or enjoying a hockey game as a
spectator. The rules for hockey aren't too terribly complicated, just
pretty different from other sports. Once you learn the rules, you may
be ready to complain about the ref's calls like everyone does in other
sports, but be careful about arguing with the
referees because hockey is a pretty disciplined game. The captain of a
hockey team is the one person designated to talk to officials about the
rules of the game. Each team has a captain and alternate captains. The
alternates can talk to the officials about a play if the captain, for
one reason or another, is not on the ice.
In hockey, penalties are
assessed by referees for poor behavior. Different penalties have
different consequences, some resulting in a team playing short one or
two players, but no more than two. When a player is taken out of the
game because of a penalty, the play that occurs with the player's team
being short-handed is referred to a power play for the other team and a
penalty kill for the team that is penalized. There are minor penalties,
major penalties, misconduct penalties and severe penalties. With severe
penalties, such as trying to injure another player, a player may be
suspended or fined.
With a minor penalty, the
player sits
out for two minutes or until the other team scores while the penalized
player's team continues to play with a shortage of one player. For
major penalties a player warms the bench for five minutes regardless of
whether or not the other team scores. A misconduct penalty earns a
player a ten minute outage, but during the time a misconduct penalty is
being served by a player, the player's team doesn't have to play
short-handed.
The term ' off-setting ' refers to a
situation where both teams have players that are penalized for the same
incident. The players involved in the incident have to serve their
penalty time, but neither team has to play short-handed in such
situations. Some specific rules of hockey clearly state what the
penalty or procedure is for certain behaviors, but some are left up to
the judgment of the referee who is the final authority on penalty
assessments.
Jason
Tarasi runs the hockey
equipment classified site Hockeyads.com, where hockey players can buy
and sell new and used hockey equipment online for free. Hockey
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