Hockey was no doubt about it started up in Canada. But the birthplace of hockey was in Nova Scotia, Canada. Ice hockey is the Canadien game. Ice Hockey was not invented, nor did it start on a certain day of a particular year. It originated around 1800, in Windsor, where the boys of Canada’s first college, King’s College School, established in 1788, adapted the exciting field game of Hurley to the ice of their favorite skating ponds and originated a new winter game, Ice Hurley. Over a period of decades, Ice Hurley gradually developed into Ice Hockey. Yet there wasn’t a set date the first ever indoor hockey game was held on March 3, 1875 in Montreal. A major part about the game of hockey is penalties. A penalty is a punishment for an instrument on the rules. There are many type of penalties, but a minor penalty is the most common. Some examples of minor penalties are tripping, slashing, and interference. Those penalties are all given to a certain player that has to go to the penalty box and serve his penalty for 2 minutes. So your team will only have 4 players and the opposing team will have 5 for a whole two minutes which is known as a power play when you have more guys on the ice. Yet believe it you can also get a 5 minute penalty and a 10 minute penalty. The main way to earn a 5 minute penalty if for fighting someone from the opposing team. The refs will let you fight and they will eventually break it up and take each person to the penalty box and they will serve their major penalty (fighting is allowed in only the NHL). And the worst penalty you can serve is a 10 minute major. In order to get that bad of a penalty you have to check a guy into the boards while he is facing the boards because it is very very dangerous. The length of an NHL game and an olympic game lasts 60 minutes not counting intermissions and breaks, each period last 20 minutes each, same with high school games, each period is 20 minutes also. All of the squirt, peewee, and bantam games period length is around 15-17 minutes each period. Now I am going to talk about some of the key skills you have to have if you want to be a successful hockey player. Some offensive skills you need to have is a somewhat hard and accurate shot, you need to be able to make tape to tape passes, and you have to be a good skater. While playing defense you need to block shots, be able to skate backwards fast, and be able to body up on guys on the other team. Those are some facts about hockey and some of the fundamentals.
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