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A group of boys picking teams for a game of shinny, Sarnia, Ontario, 1908. Shinny (also shinney, pick-up hockey, pond hockey, or "outdoor puck") is an informal type of hockey played on ice. It is also used as another term for street hockey. There are no formal rules or specific positions, and often, there are no goaltenders. The goal areas at ...
Street hockey (also known as shinny, dek hockey, ball hockey, road hockey) is a collection of team sport variants played outdoors either on foot or with wheeled skates (either quad or in-line), using either a ball or puck designed for play on flat, dry surfaces. The object of every game is to score more goals than the opposing team by shooting ...
Pond hockey is a form of ice hockey similar in its object and appearance to traditional ice hockey, but simplified and designed to be played on part of a natural frozen body of water. The rink is 50 to 80 percent the size of a standard NHL-specification rink, and has no boards or glass surrounding it; usually only a barrier of snow keeps the ...
Local pro, college and junior hockey players on the ice. Summer shinny leagues involving NHL players aren’t new. ... You can get TurboTax for 30% off on Amazon today. See all deals. In Other News.
Prince Edward Island Junior C Hockey League formerly the Prince Edward Island Minor Junior Hockey League; Provincial Junior Hockey League 2016-17 - Merging of the 8 Southern Ontario's Jr. C Leagues; Qu'Appelle Valley Hockey League formerly the Saskatchewan Junior C Hockey League (*) Quebec Junior "A" is roughly equal to Ontario Junior "C"
An 1850s shinny tournament medal. Precursor games of ice hockey are known to have been played in Ottawa. The 1850s medal pictured was presented to a shinny tournament champion. The illustration on the medal depicts two players. The sticks are field hockey sticks and the game was played with a ball.
The school dropped varsity hockey in 2010, competing at the ACHA Division I club level until 2016 when it re-elevated its men's team and added women's hockey. ^D Westfield State dropped its program from 1989 to 2008. ^E In 2020, the 12-team field was selected but the tournament was not played due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
To this day, shinny (derived from the Scottish game of shinty) is a popular Canadian [18] term for an informal type of hockey, either ice or street hockey. Thomas Chandler Haliburton , in The Attache: Second Series (published in 1844) imagined a dialogue, between two of the novel's characters, which mentions playing "hurly on the long pond on ...