The Official Web Site - Toronto Maple Leafs. Ice Hockey Rules. Facts About Hockey Pucks. To succeed as a hockey player, you need to develop a specific set of skills and possess a broad range of physical abilities. You need speed, strength, endurance, elusiveness and, most of all, balance. The process of getting into hockey playing shape usually involves acquiring or reacquiring all these attributes prior to the beginning of the season. For best results, your workouts should begin at least two months before your team’s first practice, but if you don’t have that much time, any training and development will be beneficial heading into competitive or recreational play. Skating is the foundation of a hockey player’s game, and skating practice will be a major factor in helping you get into shape. Skate at least once each day leading to the start of the season, mixing short cross-ice skating drills to long-distance skates to build endurance and increase your on-ice lung capacity.
Practice your skating on the ice of a rink if possible. Interesting hockey facts. Follow the links for lots of interesting hockey facts. Some are basic and somewhat common knowledge, others are stories that literally do not appear anywhere else online, so it's a good place to get it all. Look at the questions and then answers for lots of hockey tidbits, like the fake player that was drafted into the NHL and other interesting hockey moments. Pt 1, Hockey Basics: Pt 2, NHL Draft: Pt 3, Stanley Cup: Pt 4, International and Olympic Hockey: More random fun-facts: * The H on the Habs sweater stands for "Hockey", not "habitant", as is commonly rumoured.
. * Hockey pucks are frozen before being used in play, because the RUBBER with which they are made is too bouncy otherwise. * Legendary goalie Jacques Plante loved to knit! CAN ANYONE ANSWER THESE? These are just a few random items. Ice Hockey fun facts » Sport facts. Hockey Facts. Science of Hockey: Facts, Pictures & Slow-Motion Video. NHL - National Hockey League Teams, Scores, Stats, News, Standings, Rumors. USA Hockey. Ice hockey. A fast-paced physical sport, hockey is most popular in areas of North America (particularly Canada and northern parts of the United States) and Europe.
In North America, the National Hockey League (NHL) is the highest level for men's hockey and the most popular. Ice hockey is the official national winter sport of Canada,[1] where the game enjoys immense popularity. The first organized game was played on March 3, 1875, in Montreal. 162 of 177 medals at the IIHF World Championships have been taken by seven nations: Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States.[2][3] Of the 66 medals awarded in men's competition at the Olympics from 1920, only six medals did not go to one of those countries.
History[edit] Winter landscape, with skaters playing Golf (Hendrick Avercamp, 17th-century Dutch painter) Stick-and-ball games date back to pre-Christian times. Name[edit] Modern ice hockey[edit] The early Quebec Skating Rink, representative of early rinks. New York Islanders. Detroit Red Wings, It's More Than Hockey. SoundTigers.com. The National Hockey League. NHL.com is the official web site of the National Hockey League. NHL, the NHL Shield, the word mark and image of the Stanley Cup, Center Ice name and logo, NHL Conference logos and NHL Winter Classic name are registered trademarks and Vintage Hockey word mark and logo, Live Every Shift, Hot Off the Ice, The Game Lives Where You Do, NHL Power Play, NHL Winter Classic logo, NHL Heritage Classic name and logo, NHL Stadium Series name and logo, NHL All-Star Game logo, NHL Face-Off name and logo, NHL GameCenter, NHL GameCenter LIVE, NHL Network name and logo, NHL Mobile name and logo, NHL Radio, NHL Awards name and logo, NHL Draft name and logo, Hockey Fights Cancer, Because It's The Cup, The Biggest Assist Happens Off The Ice, NHL Green name and logo, NHL All-Access Vancouver name and logo, NHL Auctions, NHL Ice Time, Ice Time Any Time, Ice Tracker, NHL Vault, Hockey Is For Everyone, and Questions Will Become Answers are trademarks of the National Hockey League.