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Ice hockey

Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. The game is played between two teams of six players each. Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team...

Timeline of Events

1875

3.3.1875

The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in ''The Montreal Gazette''.

1893

3.18.1893

Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.

1923

3.22.1923

The first radio broadcast of ice hockey is made by Foster Hewitt.

1944

12.28.1944

Maurice Richard becomes the first player to score 8 points in one game of NHL ice hockey.

1984

4.20.1984

The Good Friday Massacre, an extremely violent ice hockey playoff game, is played in Montreal, Canada.

1988

8.9.1988

Wayne Gretzky is traded from the Edmonton Oilers to the Los Angeles Kings in one of the most controversial player transactions in ice hockey history, upsetting many Canadians so much that some considered him a "traitor" to his home country.