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    Now You Know Hockey: The Book of Answers
    Now You Know Hockey: The Book of Answers
    Now You Know Hockey: The Book of Answers
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    Now You Know Hockey: The Book of Answers

    By Doug Lennox

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    As Canadians, we all think we know hockey inside and out, but Doug Lennox, the head referee of Q&A, delivers the score on everything from All-Stars to Zambonis and stickhandles the skinny on who wore the first mask in hockey, how the term hat trick originated, and just where hockey was invented. Along the way, you’ll discover all sorts of fascinating things about the giants of the game, from Jean Beliveau and Sidney Crosby to Gordie Howe and Alexander Ovechkin.

    • Who was the first black player in the NHL?
    • Where did the word deke come from?
    • What was the greatest women’s hockey team of all time?
    • How did the Rocket Richard riot start?
    • Who was the first Russian to play in the NHL?
    • When was the Stanley Cup not awarded?
    • What team beat Canada for the gold medal in the 1936 Winter Olympics?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateSep 29, 2008
    ISBN9781459718159
    Now You Know Hockey: The Book of Answers
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    Doug Lennox

    Doug Lennox was an internationally acclaimed broadcaster, a veteran character actor, a commercial voice artist, and a bestselling author. He has appeared in more than 60 films and television features, including X-Men, Police Academy, Lonesome Dove, and Against the Ropes, and shared screen time with Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Burt Reynolds, Holly Hunter, Eric McCormack, Gary Oldman, and a myriad of others.

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      Now You Know Hockey - Doug Lennox

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      preface

      Around the world ice hockey is just another sport, but in Canada it’s a religion. It has its rites and rituals, its devout followers and acolytes, its saints and heroes and devils, its temples and shrines, its sacred relics, its origin myths, even its own language. And, of course, like any religion, it’s also a business, a very big one.

      The origins of hockey are shrouded in myth, legend, and tall tales. Does it date back to the ancient world as a game on land and without skates? Was it the Irish, the Scots, the English, the Dutch, the Swedes, or the Russians who invented it? Or did First Nations people in North America actually create it? The roots of the modern game are certainly in Canada, but does the United States, too, have a legitimate claim to developing the amateur and professional games? And if the game was first played in Canada, what city did that happen in: Montreal, Quebec; Kingston, Ontario; or Halifax, Nova Scotia? Or was it born in Deline, Northwest Territories, in Canada’s Arctic, as people there are now asserting? If nothing else, Now You Know Hockey strives to shed some light on all these questions.

      Skating within these pages are superstars such as Fred Cyclone Taylor, Joe Malone, Georges Vézina, Edouard Newsy Lalonde, Howie Morenz, Lionel Conacher, Maurice Rocket Richard, Gordie Howe, Terry Sawchuk, Jacques Plante, Jean Béliveau, Bobby Hull, Phil Esposito, Bobby Orr, Guy Lafleur, Darryl Sittler, Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Patrick Roy, and many others. Stars in the making also take a bow, players such as Sidney Crosby and Alexander Ovechkin. But here you’ll also find players whose accomplishments aren’t so heroic or who screwed up at some point or other, for instance, Charles Masson, Sprague Cleghorn, Billy Coutu, Babe Pratt, Don Gallinger, Billy Taylor, Gary Suitcase Smith, Dave Tiger Williams, Brian Spinner Spencer, Dino Ciccarelli, Marty McSorley, and Todd Bertuzzi, among others.

      The Canadian game, as represented by the National Hockey League, has changed a great deal in the past few decades, as has the international game whether it’s the World Hockey Championships, the World Junior Championships, or Olympic hockey. European superstars such as Jari Kurri, Jaromir Jagr, Borje Salming, Dominik Hasek, Pavel Bure, Teemu Selanne, Nicklas Lidstrom, and Mats Sundin, have lit up NHL scoreboards or astonished us between the pipes. But who remembers Val Hoffinger or Viktor Nechaev, or for that matter, Gustav Forslund or Albert Pudas? In this book you’ll find out who they are and what their significance is.

      And let’s not forget the American contribution to hockey. From Hobey Baker, Frank Brimsek, Jim Craig, and the Christian family in bygone years, to Keith Tkachuk, Brian Leetch, Joe Mullen, and Chris Chelios more recently, the United States has played an increasingly important role in the NHL, not to mention internationally, as its two Olympic Miracles on Ice demonstrated.

      The women are here, as well, including amazing teams such as the Preston Rivulettes; terrific players such as Bobbie Rosenfeld, Hayley Wickenheiser, Angela James, and Cammi Granato; and curiosities such as Manon Rhéaume and Erin Whitten.

      As my readers know, I’m particularly fascinated with the origins of English words and expressions, and hockey has its fair share of quirky terms. Just what are deke, five hole, hat trick, puck, slewfooting, slot, spinnerama, and wraparound and where and how did hockey derive them from?

      You’ll also discover in these pages the top five hockey movies, the five worst hockey flicks, the six best novels about hockey, many of the greatest moments in hockey, the five most notable songs about hockey, and the three biggest jailbirds in the NHL, not to mention a wealth of quickies, fast facts that give you an instant lowdown on what two jersey numbers the Toronto Maple Leafs have retired, who’s the only NHL player to score four hat tricks in one Stanley Cup playoff, what team played the Maple Leafs in their first and last games in Maple Leaf Gardens, and who’s the only player ever to win the Art Ross, Hart, and Lady Byng Trophies in consecutive seasons.

      Like all sports, hockey is about firsts, lasts, the worst, the best, the most, the greatest, and the only. Who was the first black player in the NHL? Who was the only NHL hockey player ever asked to pose nude for Playboy? Where was the Zamboni first used? Who was the first female to play on a boys’ hockey team? Who was the first goaltender to wear a mask in the NHL and who was the last not to wear one? What was the first year, since its inception in 1893, that the Stanley Cup wasn’t awarded? When and where was the first strike in the NHL? What was the first movie about hockey? Who was the first player to wear a helmet in the NHL and who was the last player not to wear one? What two Walt Disney characters played hockey in cartoons?

      The answers to these and lots more lie ahead. As Canadian humourist Stephen Leacock put it so wonderfully, Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter, we are alive.

      Enjoy!

      hockey history

      Where and when did hockey originate?

      The location and the approximate date of ice hockey’s origins, as with many sports, are much-debated and conjectured issues. Stick-and-ball games have deep roots and various types can be traced back to ancient Egypt, Persia, Greece, and Rome. Hockey appears to have evolved from a number of older sporting endeavours that employed some sort of stick (usually short and curved) and a ball: Irish hurling or hurley, Scottish shinty, English field hockey and bandy (the latter becoming popular in Scandinavia and Russia), Canadian/American shinny, and American ice polo. North American First Nations also likely influenced the development of stick games on ice and were probably inspired in turn by European games. Gughawat or Indian shinny and baggataway or lacrosse were certainly played by First Nations people when the first Europeans arrived on the scene. Both games utilized short, curved sticks, numerous competitors per team, and fierce competition (practically an all-out battle) for possession of a ball.

      What famous explorer played hockey in the Arctic?

      A recent discovery in a letter from British Arctic explorer Sir John Franklin to Roderick Murchison, dated November 6, 1825, records: Till the snow fell the game of hockey played on the ice was the morning’s sport. Franklin’s men were wintering during his second Arctic expedition at Fort Franklin (now called Deline) in Canada’s Northwest Territories on the shore of Great Bear Lake in October 1825. However, it isn’t clear if the people participating in this activity were wearing skates. More likely, they were playing field hockey. Still, that doesn’t stop Deline today from laying claim to hosting the very first hockey game in North America. As for Franklin, on his final expedition in 1845 to locate the Northwest Passage to Asia, he and his men disappeared in Canada’s Far North. They were last seen by Europeans on July 26, 1845. It appears Franklin perished on June 11, 1847, off King William Island in the Arctic Ocean.

      What is the origin of the word hockey?

      The origins of the word hockey are almost as contentious as who invented the game. One of the more popular derivations is the Old French hoquet, or shepherd’s crook, possibly a reference to the stick used in early forms of the game. Some think hoquet can be traced farther back to the Germanic root word hok or hak, which refers to a curved or bent piece of wood or metal. Likely, this is also the root of the English word hook. Nobody can say for sure, though. Hockey might just as easily owe its origin as a word to Scandinavia or Holland. One thing most people agree on, however, is that the word once signified the instrument of play rather than the game itself.

      Quickies

      Did you know...

      that just before British soldiers fled New York City in 1783 at the end of the Revolutionary War, they reportedly played a game of Irish hurling on skates, and that a version of hockey was played in Stoney Brook (today’s Princeton), New Jersey, in the winter of 1786?

      Who made the first hockey sticks?

      The First Nations connection to the very first hockey sticks got a boost in early 2008 when the son of a Quebec City antique dealer acquired what he claims is a 350-year-old curved Mi’kmaq stick that he says proves Natives played hockey in Canada as early as the late seventeenth-century. The man’s assertion hasn’t met with much support among experts, but one thing is certain: the Mi’kmaq of Nova Scotia were carving single-piece hockey sticks at least as early as the 1870s and probably earlier. They utilized a wood known as hornbeam (also called ironwood) because of its strength. Later they turned to yellow birch when they exhausted the available hornbeam. These early sticks curved up like field hockey sticks and were much shorter and heavier than the kind used in modern ice hockey. The Starr Manufacturing Company in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, started producing hockey sticks in the late nineteenth century under the brand names MicMac and Rex. The company’s sticks were immensely popular well into the 1930s. Starr was also famous for its skates, which it began manufacturing in the 1860s.

      Where and when was the first indoor hockey game played?

      Unlike a lot of other firsts in ice hockey, there isn’t much debate as to where and when the first indoor game was played in front of spectators. On March 3, 1875, two teams with nine players each met in the covered 205-foot-by-85-foot Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal. Many of the players on both clubs were McGill University students. This first indoor match introduced standardized goals and keepers, forward and defence positions, goal judges, referees, and even uniforms of a sort. Because of the confined space, a flat wooden block or disk was used instead of a ball. Not long after, this object of the game’s pursuit was called a puck. Moving the game indoors necessitated a lot of other changes. It soon became apparent that fewer players aside made more sense. First the number was cut to eight, then seven by the 1880s. The seventh player was called a rover, who could be either a defender or an offensive player. The rover was more or less eliminated by 1912 in eastern North America, leaving teams with six players each. The Pacific Coast Hockey Association, however, maintained the rover until well into the 1920s.

      Quickies

      Did you know...

      that the world’s largest hockey stick is in Duncan, British Columbia, on Vancouver Island? The 207-foot, 32-ton wooden stick once adorned the entrance to Vancouver’s Expo 86. Duncan has been home to the colossal stick since 1988 and has been trying for the past 20 years to get it recognized officially in The Guinness Book of World Records as the planet’s largest. Recently, the town succeeded in its quest, though perhaps that has something to do with the fact that B.C. billionaire Jimmy Pattison now owns the Guinness World Book Company, publisher of the famous record tome.

      Who drew up the first recorded rules for organized hockey?

      James George Aylwin Creighton, a McGill University student, a Halifax native, and the captain of one of the teams that played the first indoor hockey game in Montreal, has the distinction of drawing up the first recorded rules for organized hockey. He accomplished this feat in 1873, and the rules were published in the Montreal Gazette on February 27, 1877, after a series of four games between Creighton’s Metropolitan Club and the rival St. James Club held in Montreal’s Victoria Skating Rink. Creighton’s rules, now called the Montreal Rules, likely derived from the earlier Halifax Rules. They are, in many respects, quite similar to the rules of field hockey.

      Quickies

      Did you know...

      that Montreal’s Victoria Skating Rink opened for business in 1862, was the first building in Canada to be electrified, and was the scene of the first Stanley Cup playoff game in 1894? The arena closed for good in 1937. Today its site features a parking garage.

      Why is Kingston, Ontario, thought by many to be the birthplace of hockey?

      The first recorded games of shinty on ice were played in Kingston, Upper Canada, in 1839. A British Army officer, Arthur Freeling, said he and fellow soldiers played

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