Who Invented Ice Hockey?

Posted by admin on Jun 29, 2010 in Articles | Comments Off

Hockey is a winter sport at most loved in the world, and is a national obsession in some countries, like Canada. The popular belief that hockey was invented in Montreal, but is this really the case? In a word – no. The truth is we really do not know who is hockey, or whether it was invented invented. We know it’s popular since at least 1700, and it may have arisen even before that time.

The word “hockey” could come from at least two sources. Many people think it is from Old French word “hiccup discharge,” literally a shepherd’s crook, “the” thinking (of the shape of the hockey stick, but it can also from the Middle Dutch word “come Hokke,” mean what can “Goal” if routinely used. We know that show similar to the 16th century Dutch painting a hockey game or report that on the frozen canals, which will be played today in front of the establishment and inventiveness in Canada.

The British in May

Hockey and lacrosse were popular in Europe, and many people believe that British soldiers stationed in Canada, created in the 1700s a modern form of hockey against boredom and the long, cold war, Canadian winters. There are other pictures that played this new form of entertainment in Nova Scotia, and also show in Virginia in the United States during this period. So we really do not know who to refine invent ice hockey, only helped.