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Welcome to our website, where you will find out everything there is to know about the fascinating sport of ice hockey. Why ice hockey? The answer is extremely simple – we believe it is one of the few real remaining contact sports out there, alongside with rugby. American football is nothing but a show, and football is slowly becoming a joke. Ice hockey, however, maintains its tough, hard, rough image and the players on the field continue to fight day in, day out. There is no contact sport out there like ice
Ice hockey is quite an old sport, having existed more than a hundred years. It is, though, very unclear exactly where the sport first came to be, and where the origin really began. It’s widely believed that it was in Canada that ice hockey the way we know it today first came to be, and it is still the national sport of the North-American country. If we talk about the origins of hockey as a whole, the story becomes a bit clearer. In the 17th or 18th century, a similar game was played in the United Kingdom, t
By the end of the 19th century, ice hockey was already becoming a popular sport in Canada and parts of the USA. From there, it was brought to back to Europe by the children of Lord Stanley, the Governor General of Canada at that time. Ice hockey was already forming itself into different leagues at the time, but was still mostly played between different colleges and universities as a new form of rivalry arose. Not long after, though, when both Europe and North-America unveiled the potential of this amazing s
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