Mentors Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 XX Olympic Winter Games, Torino, Italia Icehockey: 15.-26. February Group A: Canada, Czechia, Finland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy Group B: Sweden, Slovakia, USA, Russia, Latvia, Kazakhstan Go for Gold! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Please do not insult us the super power of HOCKEY by calling it "ice hockey" It is hockey plain and simple,you can add "field" or "grass" to the other east indian sports with a stick. And there is no need to even discuss it as we already have the parade route planned here. it will just be a carry over from the world juniors as Canada steam rolls over the world. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BelgianBoy Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 dirtroad said:Please do not insult us the super power of HOCKEY by calling it "ice hockey" It is hockey plain and simple,you can add "field" or "grass" to the other east indian sports with a stick. And there is no need to even discuss it as we already have the parade route planned here. it will just be a carry over from the world juniors as Canada steam rolls over the world. Helloooooo ?????? anyone home here ????? Hockey is played on grass, ask anyone, on ice its officially called ice hockey. Superpower ????? you mean the US or even Canada ? Lets look at figures, will we ? Both the US and Canada together won it 3 times out of the last 12 times........ LOL BB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damen Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Pretty sure he means Canada. Nobody in their right mind would ever call the US a super power in Hockey. Although we are getting better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damen Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 The problem with Hockey in the US is the parents are too involved. They want to see their little tyke win games. They could care less about fundementals. As a result, you have 9 and 10 year old kids playing 40 -50 games a year when they should be practicing/focusing on development. In order to win those games, they are coached to dump the puck and chase rather than experiment with being creative and carrying the puck past the blue line. The other problem is that Hockey has taken a beating in the US as far as public relations and slipped to a 2nd class sport. The better athletes tend to play football, basketball, baseball and hockey gets the leftovers. Fortunately some of the governing bodies in youth hockey have noticed this trend and are taking steps to rectify the problems. Truly a great team sport Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nervous_Dog Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 Look at how many countries play "grass" hockey and how many play ice hoceky, Ice hocley, a great game by the way, is the minority sport. May have Bigger $ (And deservdly so) DOG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whosyourdaddy Posted February 7, 2006 Report Share Posted February 7, 2006 "Canada steam rolls over the world" As a canuck, I will stick my neck out and say that it wont be that easy. Gretzky and friends have selected people they like and dont deserve to go. ie Smyth and Doan. Plus the defence is a bunch of big boys who are crowd favourites. (ie Pronger,Regehr, foot etc) On the bigger international ice these guys are going to be a liablity when playing against the swedes and ruskies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted February 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 8, 2006 whosyourdaddy said:"Canada steam rolls over the world" As a canuck, I will stick my neck out and say that it wont be that easy. Gretzky and friends have selected people they like and dont deserve to go. ie Smyth and Doan. Plus the defence is a bunch of big boys who are crowd favourites. (ie Pronger,Regehr, foot etc) On the bigger international ice these guys are going to be a liablity when playing against the swedes and ruskies. With a lot of NHL cracks there it will be a great tournament. And the team of Italy has the advantage of playing at home. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted February 9, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2006 An Olympic sport since 1920 " The word ?hockey? comes from the old French word "hocquet", meaning "stick". The origins of ice hockey are unclear, but it is widely accepted that the British are responsible for bringing hockey to North America. Soldiers stationed in Nova Scotia, Canada, played the earliest games. In 1879, a group of college students at McGill University in Montreal organised competitions and developed the first known set of hockey rules. The sport migrated south to the United States during the 1890s. The first known hockey games took place between Johns Hopkins and Yale Universities in 1895. The first Olympic Games to include ice hockey for men were the Antwerp Games in 1920. However, the first Olympic Winter Games took place in 1924 in Chamonix." "Ice hockey is a Canadian sport which began in the early 19th century. It is based on several similar sports played in Europe, notably bandy in Scandinavia, and is somewhat similar to the sports of shinny and hurley. Around 1860, a puck was substituted for a ball, and in 1879, two McGill University students, W. F. Robertson and R. F. Smith, devised the first rules, combining field hockey and rugby regulations. Originally, the game was played as a nine-a-side competition. The first recognised team, the McGill University Hockey Club, was formed in 1880. Hockey became the Canadian national sport, with leagues everywhere. In 1894, Lord Stanley of Preston, Governor General of Canada, donated the Stanley Cup, which was first won in 1894 by a team representing the Montreal Amateur Athletic Association. Between the 1880s and World War I, ice hockey became popular in Europe. The first European Championship was played in 1910 at Les Avants in the Swiss Alps , and won by Great Britain. :: Ice hockey also spread below the border to the United States with the foundation of the United States Amateur Hockey League in New York in 1896. " Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mentors Posted February 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 12, 2006 There are not less than 153 NHL Cracks which going to Torino the next week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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