Australia's Hockeyroos the best According to American journalist, Sam Walker, the Australian Hockeyroos are one of the greatest women's hockey teams between 1993 and 2000. They won 7 straight titles, which included the 1996 and 2000 Olympic titles, under the captaincy of Rechelle Hawkes. No other field hockey side has enjoyed such a long period of success. The team was re known for blistering pace and innovative tactics.…
If you had to write a fair and true story of a hockey game between the…
Now it was time for the game to start. It was Crosbys first game in the pros, and all he wanted to do was play good and score a goal. Five minutes into the game,Crosby surprised the whole worlds by scoring a goal. Crosby had never been more happy in his life. Crosby was skating around and next thing he knew he was laying on the ice because he had got body checked. He looked at who it was that hit him and it was Shady McCoy. Sidney was so confused, because he didn’t know that he was going against his little league enemy Shady McCoy. Not only were they little league enemies but they would also become enemies now too. These teams would meet again many more times during the lengthy season.…
The NHL Board of Governors is the ruling and governing body of the NHL, and each team in the league is a member. The NHL Board of Governors aims to establish the policies of the National Hockey League, uphold its constitution and monitor any changes to the game in North America.…
The Forum is disturbingly empty: just a few players sit quietly cocooned away in a dressing room; twenty-five or thirty staff work in distant upstairs offices; throughout the rest of its vast insides a few dozen men are busy washing, painting, fixing, tidying things up. There is one other person. Entering the corridor to the dressing room, I hear muffed, reverberating sounds from the ice, and before I can see who it is, I know it's Lafleur. Like a kid on a backyard rink, he skates by himself many minutes before anyone joins him, shooting pucks easily off the boards, watching them rebound, moving skates and gloved hands wherever his inventive instincts direct them to go. Here, far from the expedience of a game, away from defenders and linemates who shackle him to their banal predictability, alone with his virtuoso skills, it is his time to create.…
Shoulder fake left, head fake right, a sweet inside outside move, and he fires it in top shelf, beating the goalie glove side to win the game. While that may sound like a narrative of a game-winning hockey goal, in reality, it is 1:30 AM on your average Thursday night and I am struggling to find the perfect concluding sentence to finish my history term paper. Often when I am struggling to find an answer to a question or need to concentrate on any given topic, I reach for my worn-out Warrior hockey stick and my dusty orange ball and begin to stickhandle mindlessly. One might never know, that my mind is far away from hockey as I look like a complete fool deking (hockey term for getting past people) imaginary people on my way to an imaginary net.…
The Stanley Cup originated in Canada after Lord Frederick Arthur Stanley of Preston decided that since the sport was so popular there should be a form of championship between the teams. Lord Stanley donated a silver bowl to the Ametuer Hockey Association of Canada for the prize of the championship. The cup was originally called the Dominion Challenge Trophy, but was soon renamed the Stanley Hockey Championship Cup in 1893 after its founder. That same year it was decided that the Stanley Cup could not be owned by any of the winning hockey teams and went to whoever won the championship that year.…
Playing Ice Hockey was a burning passion of mine. It all started in the cold and dense locker room. Practice had just finished up and we were inside the locker room getting undressed. I was a forward on the team and was only ten years old. The team goalie was sick and was not going to be able to make our game the next day. Coach asked “Is anyone willing to play goalie for our game?” and I, the young ten year old boy I was; was the first person to quickly respond saying “I will!” Playing goalie was destined for me, I was a star and very talented.…
The thrill of scoring a winning goal, the sound of skates being sharpened. The fresh tape job you put on your stick before every game. The moments you share with your teammates that will last a life time. The road trips, games on back to back nights and the lack of sleep due to games finishing late. The crunch noise your body makes when you hit the boards leading to sometimes broken ribs, separated shoulders, concussions and broken legs. Nothing can compare to scoring a game winning goal to a hockey player is like winning the lottery. Players go through tough practices skating until they feel like puking, the preparation done before every one of the 82 games played just to try and salvage enough points to make it into the playoffs. Then you have to go through as many as 28 more terrific grueling games. In the end it all becomes worth it because two lucky teams get a chance to compete for one of the…
Introduction: My name is Brendan and I am here to inform you about the sport of Ice Hockey. Did you know that it’s one of the fastest sports on earth? It is one of the most overlooked sports in the United States and I am here today tell you all about the origins of the sport, the basic rules,…
As the sun rises up and the street lights turn on, only six more hours until my big game.I felt like my heart was going to explode and burst out of my chest. As I got out of my bed I Felt a cold bitter bitter feeling. So I walked slowly and calmly to the bathroom. After that I had went down stairs to the kitchen and poured a bowl of frosted flankes cereal. While I was putting away the milk my mom said ''why is your hand shaking?'' I said ''It's just too cold'' So after my mom had left I had taken my dogs out for a walk because I had thought maybe if I had just walked a bit I wouldn't be so nervous. As I came back home I had bad feeling that something terrible was going to happen…
College has so far exceeded my expectations in a huge way. As a new member of the ice hockey team there were many uncertainties and worries, as well as tons of excitements and anticipations. Obviously the biggest part, school, was nerve wracking and exciting too. In college hockey its very common that players take a few years off of school prior to attending, to play hockey in junior hockey leagues. This created a bit more nerves then excitement for the classroom aspect of school since i've only taken 3 college courses since graduating high school, making it a bit harder to get back into the swing of things. Besides getting back into school routine, being a hockey player in college has made the beginning…
My entire life has revolved around sports. Growing up, I spent most of my childhood weekends at hockey rinks all across New England watching my two older brothers play. It was only a matter of time before I laced up my very own pair of skates. I immediately fell in love with every aspect of hockey. My teammates and coaches were like my family and my hometown rink was my second home. This is where my passion for sports began.…
It’s game day, and the first time in twenty-three years that we might be able to defeat out school rivals, Turpin. But something didn’t feel like it should, after all it was the biggest day our team’s season. We had immense confidence in ourselves, being the higher raked state team, we expected to win this game then make a large tournament run. Little did we know that the rest of our season relied heavily on this game. Winning or losing this game would not end our season physically, but would emotionally ruin us, ultimately ending our season. The game began with a pleasant, almost soothing blow of the whistle and ended with the blood-curtailing screech of the referee’s dagger, sending shivers down my spin. The roar of our crowd stopped and…
Why can’t they get their head out of the cloud and start making the rinks loud?…