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TYKES
Front Row L to R: Lauryn Maloney, Brooklyn Timm, Carali Hugill,
Rylee Dalton, Hannah Dalton, Kylin Wilson
Middle Row L to R: Gibson Short, Carter Kamerman, Hunter
McCallum, Maddex Jervis, Brayden Smale
Back Row L to R: Pierce MacDonald, Gavin Van Driel, Sullivan
Watson, Nathan Feiss, Blake Beuerman
Coaches: Erin McGrath, Geoff Dalton, Mark Wilson, Kris Gemmell
Missing: Jayda Dietz, Maycee Nolan, Carson Williamson -Flynn
WHAT 15 ICE HOCKEY?
Ice hockey is played between two teams of skaters on a large flat area of ice, using a three -inch -diameter (76.2 mm) vulcanized 4
rubber disc called a puck. This puck is often frozen before high-level games to decrease the amount of bouncing and friction on
the ice. The game is played all over North America, Europe and to varying extents in many other countries around the world to
varying extent. It is the most popular sport in Canada, Finland, Latvia, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia.
The governing body of international play is the 72 -member International Ice Hockey Federation (UHF). Men's ice hockey has been
played at the Winter Olympics since 1924, and was in the 1920 Summer Olympics. Women's ice hockey was added to the Winter
Olympics in 1998. North America's National Hockey League (NHL) is the strongest professional ice hockey league, drawing top ice
hockey players from around the globe. The NHL rules are slightly different from those used in Olympic ice hockey over
many categories.
Ice hockey sticks are long L-shaped sticks made of wood, graphite, or composites with a blade at the bottom that can lie flat on
the playing surface when the stick is held upright and can legally curve either way, for left- or right-handed players.
Various stick and ball games similar to field hockey, bandy and other games where two teams push a ball or object back and forth
with sticks were played on ice under the name "hockey" in England throughout the 19th century, and even earlier under various
other names. [In Canada, there are 24 reports of hockey -like games in the 19th century before 1875] (five of them using the name
"hockey"). The first organized indoor game of ice hockey was played in Montreal, Canada, on March 3, 1875 and featured several
McGill University students. The contemporary sport developed in Canada from these and other influences. International ice hockey
rules were adopted from Canadian rules in the early 1900s.
Ice hockey is the national sport of Latvia and the national winter sport of Canada.
Ice hockey is played at a number of levels, by all ages....Wikipedia