Hello again readers, and if you're new here, then welcome to my blog! This is Cole here, and this is my second blog post of the week. In tonight's post I will basically be picking up where I left off on Tuesday, because I found a great new source to fill in the blanks I left on the previous post. So lets stop the introduction and get into the info! I discovered, using this great web page; Fischler, Stanley I. "Ice Hockey." Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Encyclopedia Britannica. Web. <http://www.britannica.com/sports/ice-hockey>., that ice hockey's earliest influences were from 18th and 19th century stick-and-ball games played in the United Kingdom. These games reached Canada's east coast in the early 1800's during the time period where Europeans began to migrate to North America, and over time games like early lacrosse and hurling slowly adapted to the cold Canadian environment and turned into a game played on frozen ponds, with a small wooden disk in replacement for a ball and two stones frozen into the ground on each side of the ice, which functioned like the modern-day net. This was ice hockey's humble beginning, and Canada earned credit for inventing the sport when the first public indoor ice hockey game was played in Montreal on March 3, 1875. Well, that will conclude tonight's post. Next Tuesday will be a much longer blog; I have planned to talk about the first official ice hockey leagues. Until then, have a good night.
This is a picture of a very old hockey stick and ball (because balls were used before the creation of the puck). These are great examples of the earliest form of hockey equipment.
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