Sport facts

In the fourth and clinching game of the 1970 Stanley Cup finals, Boston Bruin star defenseman Bobby Orr flew through the air, lunged, and fell as he scored the overtime goal against the St. Louis Blues, to give the Bruins their first Stanley Cup in 29 years. The image of Orr sprawled on the ice [...]

Most superstars break records. Wayne Gretzky obliterates them. Gretzky, who by age seven was being called the next Bobby Orr, was a legend in Canadian junior hockey. But such phenoms, while noteworthy, are hardly unheard of. What is unheard of is the phenom who brings an almost identical capacity to dominate competition when that competition [...]

Back home, his real title was Right Honourable Sir Frederick Arthur Stanley, Baron Stanley of Preston, in the County of Lancaster, in the Peerage of Great Britain, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. But in Canada, he is known simply as Lord Stanley, the once-Governor General and, more important, the [...]

* The first puck was square, not round. * The name hockey comes from the French word “hoquet”, which is a shepherd’s crook. * Originally, games were played with 9 players on a side. * A puck is 3 inches in diameter, and 1 inch thick. * A puck sometimes moves at speeds of more [...]

A hockey team consists of a goaltender, two defenders, and three forwards (a center and two wings). The game is played in three 20-minute periods. The team that hits the most pucks into the opponant’s goal wins. The game is played in a rink, which is an ice covered rectangular surface with curved corners. The [...]

Ice hockey is believed to have begun during the Middle Ages, when Northern Europeans played games on makeshift ice skates. However, the first ice hockey players were probably the North American Indians, who played a game using field tools with curved ends. The French explorers who watched the Indians play this ball and stick game [...]