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The Dangers Of Concussions While Playing Ice Hockey

Posted in Uncategorized | May 10th, 2013

Ice hockey is, without a doubt, one of the highest contact sports out there today. As a result of this, it is also one of the more dangerous sports to play in terms of players being at a constant risk of serious injury. One of the most common injuries that ice hockey players sustain is the concussion. This can be a serious injury, especially if gone unrecognized and untreated. Fortunately, there are plenty of effective ways to go about avoiding concussions in ice hockey.

Perhaps the most obvious way to avoid a concussion is for [...]

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Changes Needed To Make Ice Hockey A Safer Sport

Posted in Uncategorized | May 7th, 2013

Ice hockey is one of the most dangerous organized sports known to humanity, and the way the game is played today—skaters are now sustaining an alarming number of career-threatening injuries. Players still got hurt back in the day, yet hockey used to be a game of finesse, rather than what it is today. In 1979 the mandatory helmet rule demanded that players coming into the league must wear helmets; players already in the league weren’t required but encouraged to protect [...]

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Comparing Ice Hockey And The Game of Field Hockey

Posted in Uncategorized | May 5th, 2013

Ice hockey and filed hockey are both very popular sports. However, despite the fact that they both share part of their names with each other, they are actually quite different in many regards. Aside from the obvious fact that one is played on ice while the other is played on the ground, there are many other features of each sport that set them apart from each other.

For starters, ice hockey has a much longer history than field hockey. Not to mention, the professional league for ice hockey is much more established, although the rules of [...]

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The History Of Hockey In The United States

Posted in Uncategorized | May 3rd, 2013

Professional hockey in the US got its start in the early 1900s. The National Hockey Association (now the NHL) had less than a handful of teams playing professionally in the United States, yet many of its players resided in Canada at the time. The Boston Bruins became the NHL’s first pro team to hit the ice in 1924, and in 1929 the team won its first Stanley Cup against the New York Rangers. During the next three decades the league added only two more teams: the Chicago Blackhawks and the Detroit Red Wings. Along with the [...]

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The Beginnings of Hockey-When Did It Start?

Posted in Uncategorized | May 2nd, 2013

The origins of ice hockey are somewhat fuzzy from an in-depth historical perspective, yet the modern roots of the game may have sprouted from the frozen ponds of Montreal during the early nineteenth century. The most accurate accountings come from Windsor, Nova Scotia and referred to as ice-Hurley in the early 1800s, after a college professor prompted his students to come up with a winter sporting activity. For the next 75 years or so, the sport remained somewhat isolated until 1877 when the first organized hockey game got under way at the Victoria [...]

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