Interesting Facts About Ice Hockey When a sport has been around as long as hockey, there are many interesting facts and stories about it. Here are just some interesting facts about the game we love.

1. Some say the first game was played by the French and Irish as far back as the 1700s, others say it was in the mid-1800s when Canadians played on frozen ponds (dammar) in Ontario.

2. The first indoor hockey game was played March 3, 1875 in Montreal between two teams of nine players.

3. Stan Mikita is most often said to have created (skapat) the curved (svängda) stick blade in the 1960s

4. The National Hockey League (NHL) was started on November 22, 1917.

5. The Montreal Canadiens have won most Stanley Cups.

6. The diameter of a hockey puck is 7.6 cm.

7. The fastest shot on was made by Bobby Hull’s,with a speed of (hastighet av) 189 km per hour.

8. Since 1914, the Stanley Cup has been given to a team every year but two.

9. Darryl Sittler has the NHL record for most points in a single game.

10. The standard North American ice rink is 61 m long and 25 m wide (bred).

10.Wayne Gretzky has 61 NHL records, a lot more than any other player.

11.The Stanley Cup has had many adventures . It has been used as a cereal bowl (skål med flingor), left by the side of the road, trown (kastad) into a swimming pool.

12. The Hockey Hall of Fame is in Toronto, Ontario.

13. Phil Esposito of the Boston Bruins was the first NHL player to get 100 points in a season, in 1969.

14. Before 1914, referees (domare) used to place the puck on the ice between the players’ sticks for face offs. This often hurt their hands. In 1914, the referees were allowed to drop the puck between the players’ sticks.

15. Before games, hockey pucks are frozen to stop them from bouncing (studsa) during play.

16.The last player in the NHL to play without a helmet was Craig MacTavish, who rstopped playing in 1997.

17. Jacques Plante a goalie from Montreal has made the modern goalie mask (målvaktsmask). He had it during a game on November 1, 1959.

18. The NHL record for most goals in a game is owned (ägd) by Joe Malone, He made seven goals in 1920.

19. The first hockey puck, used during outdoor games in the 1800s, was made of frozen cow dung (dynga).

20. Hockey nets are 1.8 m wide and 90 cm tall.

21. The Stanley Cup is named after a Canadian General, Lord Stanley of Preston, who gave the trophy to a game in 1893.

22. In Detroit, fans often throw octopi (en låtsas bläckfisk) on the ice during the playoffs.

23. In 1992, goalie Manon Rhéaume became the first woman to play in the NHL

24.Goalies cannot carry — or even touch — the puck on the opposite side of the centre line.

25.The layer of ice in a pro hockey rink is usually 2 cm and is -9 degrees.

26. The original Stanley Cup was only 18 cm high.

27.The Anaheim Mighty Ducks — were named after the team in the Disney movie, The Mighty Ducks.

28. Former Philadelphia Flyers goalie Ron Hextall was the first goalie to score a goal by shooting the puck into the other team’s net.

29. Twelve women have their names engraved (ingraverade) on the Stanley Cup.

30.Andy Brown was the last goaltender to play a game without a mask. This was in 1974.