One of hockey's greatest traditions, the tossing of hats on the ice when a player scores thrice evolved from local businessmen handing out fedoras to players about 90 years ago. During the 1970s, fans built on that tradition by tossing hats on the ice, and the NHL eventually amended its rule book to say that "articles thrown onto the ice following
To get you ready for the Stanley Cup Finals this weekend we’ve put together a list of our favorite movie scenes that highlight the only sport crazy enough to be played on a sheet of ice.
Martin Havlat received a devastating hit, one that many will be calling "the hit of the year". At least those who thought it was a legal one will likely be doing so. That's sports talk for "he got pwned".
There have been a number of ice hockey injuries that exceed even what you’d expect from a league that freely allows fighting and clashing of all sorts. Here is a countdown of the all-time top 10 bizarre hockey incident.
Bruins fan dates a Habs fan...never date within the division
Line brawl including Kevin Bieksa vs Ben Eager and Alexandre Burrows vs Duncan Keith from the Vancouver Canucks at Chicago Blackhawks game on Mar 29, 2009.
The two fighters then spent 5 minutes in the adorable box.
"He's encased in ice, except his legs, which are sticking out like Popsicle sticks," the caller phoned to tell this reporter. It turns out that this person last week was playing hockey on the frozen waters that had collected in the basement of the building. None of the men called the police, he said. They, in fact, continued their hockey game.
Dropping the gloves, an accepted part of hockey for generations, has increased in the National Hockey League by 75 percent over the last three years. With few exceptions, every team has at least one player who can fight. Two enforcers battle, often briefly, to defuse the emotion generated by a tight, physical game, or to create some emotion.
