1875 First organized game. (James Creighton and several McGill University Student)

"Montreal is at the centre of the development of the modern sport of ice hockey." (wikipedia)

With the start of their first organized game, it has led to professional hockey in 1902, called Western Pennsylvania Hockey League. In 1917, National Hockey League (NHL) was created, and is what it is today.


*Hockey Rink

Ice hockey is played on ice rink, either outside or inside.  It requires 6 players from each team, usually consist of 3 Foward, 2 Defensemen, and 1 goalie.
The objective of the game is to put the puck into the other teams goal using hockey sticks.  There are lots of rules in Hockey, such as, Offsides, icing, hooking, slashing, and more. 

Some equipments needed to play hockey.
       



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