Ice Hockey

[HUGH]

The revelation that, when Charles Darwin was at school, hockey was played on the ice in cold winters, has upset quite a few of our Canadian friends who assumed that ice hockey was invented in Canada.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...s-9433766.html

There's no doubt Canadians refined the game sufficiently to make it what it is today but some still insist the new information is just a hoax. It makes sense that, when grass is frozen, rather than turn it into a quagmire, playing on the ice is much more fun. There are early photos of English school matches on the ice.

[NQ6U]

Darwin got banned from the sport for high-sticking and decided to take a nice sea voyage to take his mind off of his disgrace. The rest is history.

[K7SGJ]

I imagine if they had played it in a quagmire, he would have been the original mudder pucker, eh?

[VE7DCW]

I imagine if they had played it in a quagmire, he would have been the original mudder pucker, eh?

...... or more simply to literally just plain tell them "Puck off"! ....... but we don't say "eh" in Canajun speak.....

[K7SGJ]

...... or more simply to literally just plain tell them "Puck off"! ....... but we don't say "eh" in Canajun speak.....

It's a well known fact, that the folks of Duncan B.C. are way more civilized than rest of the heathens living in Canada.

[NA4BH]

They play bull hockey up there.

[VE7DCW]

It's a well known fact, that the folks of Duncan B.C. are way more civilized than rest of the heathens living in Eastern Canada.

Eddie you are correct about Duncan......but I corrected you about the other parts of Canada.....

[W7XF]

Hockey....a side effect of drinking Moose Piss beer (Molson) and eating the anomaly that Canuckistan calls bacon.

[koØm]

We have Ice Hockey, live



And on Television.

[NQ6U]

There's a minor league pro hockey team in San Diego, the Gulls, and they've done pretty well overall. But, it just seems wrong to go see ice hockey played in an arena that's surrounded by palm trees.