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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 December 2024. Team winter sport This article is about the contact team sport played on ice. For the overall family of sports involving sticks and goals, see Hockey. For the sport played on fields and using a hockeyball, see Field hockey. For other uses, see Ice hockey (disambiguation). This article ...
The McGill University Hockey Club, the first ice hockey club, was founded in 1877 [27] (followed by the Quebec Hockey Club in 1878 and the Montreal Victorias in 1881). [28] In 1880, the number of players per side was reduced from nine to seven. [1] An ice hockey game held at McGill University in 1884
Ice hockey is the national sport of Latvia [19] and the national winter sport of Canada. [20] Ice hockey is played at a number of levels, by all ages. The governing body of international play is the 77-member International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). Men's ice hockey has been played at the Winter Olympics since 1924, and was in the 1920 ...
The National Hockey League (NHL); French: Ligue nationale de hockey [liɡ nɑsjɔnal də ɔkɛ] (LNH), is a professional ice hockey league in North America consisting of 32 teams – 25 in the United States and 7 in Canada.
The NHL is the major professional hockey league in North America, with 25 US-based teams and 7 Canadian-based teams competing for the Stanley Cup. [21] While NHL stars are still not as readily familiar to the general American public as are stars of the NFL, MLB, and the NBA, average attendance for NHL games in the US has surpassed average NBA attendance in recent seasons, [22] [23] buoyed in ...
At the 1914 Olympic Congress in Paris, ice hockey was added to the list of optional sports that Olympics organizers could include. [6] The decision to include ice hockey for the 1920 Summer Olympics was made in January, three months before the start of the Games. [7] Several occurrences led to the sport's inclusion in the programme.
Ice hockey, referred to simply as hockey in Canada, the United States, and most of Europe including Finland, Sweden, Russia and the Czech Republic, is a team sport played on ice. It is one of the world's fastest sports, with players on skates capable of going high speeds on natural or artificial ice surfaces.
This is a category categorizing various articles pertaining to the history of the sport of ice hockey. Subcategories. This category has the following 10 subcategories ...