It seems as though the first organized ice hockey game may have been played in Montreal in 1975. It was probably a variant of field hockey type games played in Ireland and Scotland. Oxford University in the UK started playing ice hockey in 1885. Yale and John Hopkins in the U.S. started playing in 1893. The University of Michigan and Michigan State University played their first varsity hockey game in 1922. On Feb 22, 2014, at 3:59 PM, knarf <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The Americans always have strong teams and you always bring your best game to > us. > > For a hundred years or more hockey has been "our game". While we weren't > watching the rest of the world (the cold world, anyway) started playing and > improving and all of a sudden thirty years ago guys with names like Mogilny, > Federov, Salming, Hasek and Koivu started playing here and dominating. > > Oh yeah, guys like Brian Leech, too. > > It was a shock. > > When I was a kid every NHL player was Canadian except two Americans and they > were journeymen. > > Now I doubt that Canadians comprise more than 50% of the league, probably > less. > > Hockey is engrained in our national psyche in a way you can't imagine; like > baseball might have been in the US up to the 1950s. > > So when we win internationally it's a big deal around here. And to beat our > close friends and natural rivals it's all the sweeter. > > :-) > > Cheers, > frank > > On 22 February, 2014 2:31:56 PM EST, "Daniel J. Matyola" > <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Well, that's about as surprising as the Dutch wins in speed skating. >> <G> >> Dan Matyola >> http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola >> >>> On 21/02/2014, knarf <knarftheria...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Men's. >>>> >>>> Women's. >>>> >>>> Canada vs. USA. >>>> >>>> 'Nuff said... > > “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > PDML@pdml.net > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
