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the only sport where the penalty for fighting is a short rest
means A fast team sport in which players use curved sticks to drive a puck or ball into the opponents' goal, played on ice or on a field.
from The word's roots are genuinely murky. The most popular guess links it to the Old French 'hoquet,' a shepherd's crook or hooked stick — which fits the curved blade nicely — but this connection is unproven and possibly just a tidy story. The game's name appears in English by the 18th century, though earlier references are thin and scattered. Honest answer: nobody's quite sure where 'hockey' came from.
- frozen relics
- Native peoples played stick games on ice for centuries
- the puck
- Frozen before games so it won't bounce wildly
- tooth tax
- Players routinely return to play missing teeth
- speed demons
- Slap shots exceed 100 miles per hour
- lord stanley
- Trophy once held a baby and got drop-kicked
stanley cup — championship trophy awarded to nhl winner since 1893
montreal canadiens — won 24 stanley cups, most successful franchise in nhl history
wayne gretzky — all-time leading scorer with 894 goals, played 1979-1999