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. Favourite hockey joke, care of Rodney Dangerfield: "I went to a fight the other night and a hockey game broke out." Cheers, frank On 22 February, 2014 4:31:45 PM EST, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@comcast.net> wrote: >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. “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.
