Quoting knarf <knarftheria...@gmail.com>:
Many cities and towns lay claim to holding the first hockey game.
Halifax thinks they had it. Montreal does, too. A very plausible
theory has the first game in Kingston, Ontario between Montreal's
McGill University (an alma mater of mine, which is why it's likely
true) and Royal Military College.
Truth is it evolved from earlier forms of shinny or grass hockey so
it's a matter of conjecture as to when it crystalized into ice hockey.
Whatever, we've been playing it for a long time and the game almost
certainly began somewhere here (although some New England town
claims it, too!). I think it's great that it's become so
internationally loved.
I was going to say that ice hockey isn't widely loved downunder but I
thought I should check first. Turns out that there is an Australian
Ice Hockey Federation (www.iha.org.au/view/iha) with six State-based
teams. Who would have guessed?
The game gets almost no coverage in the press here - except when
there's a particularly spectacular brawl in one of the Northern
Hemisphere games.... - so I have no idea how popular it is.
Even Field Hockey only gets moderate coverage even though Australian
teams are in the top half dozen internationally.
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Brian
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Brian Walters
Western Sydney Australia
http://lyons-ryan.org/southernlight/
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