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Bone Skates - Did Ice Hockey Start on Sk...
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July 23rd, 2014
Ice Hockey as we know it today is a fast sport played on skates made by various manufacturers, but they all have one thing in common, a thin blade of medal is what they skate on...
Adrienne Clarkson & Women's Professional...
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March 23rd, 2014
Adrienne Louise Clarkson PC CC CMM COM CD FRSC(hon) FRAIC(hon) FRCPSC(hon) (Chinese: 伍冰枝; née Poy, February 10, 1939) is a Canadian journalist and stateswoman who served as Gove...
The Biggest Trade In Sports History - Wa...
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August 8th, 2013
Two hours after the Oilers won the Stanley Cup in 1988, Gretzky learned from his father that the Oilers were planning to deal him to another team.]Walter had known for months, b...
Worlds Oldest Shinty Trophy - 1829 - His...
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July 12th, 2013
The world’s oldest shinty trophy has remarkably turned up on a farm in the Highlands – just yards from where the match it had commemorated was played 184 years ago.
The...
Jamie Dwyer - 300th Game Played for Aust...
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June 19th, 2013
Jamie Dwyer could have been revered around the globe as another Cristiano Ronaldo or Lionel Messi had he chosen soccer over hockey.
But hockey chose him, writes Gené Step...
Constance Applebee - Field Hockey Pionee...
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January 6th, 2013
Constance Mary Katherine Applebee (1873–1981), promoter of women's field hockey, was born Katherine Mary at Chigwell Row, Chigwell, Essex, on 4 June 1873, the daughter of Jam...
The Abbott Cup .. Lest We Forget - Capta...
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November 7th, 2012
By GREGG DRINNAN
Edward Lyman Abbott (right photo) was, they all agreed, one of a kind.
He w...
Meet Foster Hewitt, W A Hewitt & Family ...
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July 10th, 2012
At his home in Forest Hill, Ont., Foster Hewitt has just finished cooking a steak. A crew from CBC Television's Graphic is on hand to witness not only Hewitt's prowess in the...
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on May 23rd, 2011
The Vancouver Millionaires were a Institution of Ice Hockey Permanance.
The Stanley Cup, first awarded in 1893 would see many changes to the game of Ice Hockey and it's Champions. Some of the most important rules of Ice Hockey started in Vancouve...
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on May 19th, 2011
Wayback Machine: How the Mets missed a dynasty
Mother Nature and the military foiled Seattle’s chances for greatness.
The Seattle Metropolitans won the Stanley Cup in 1917 and just missed winning two other times, in 1919 and 1920. Coach Pete Muldoon is standing far left;...
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on May 13th, 2011
Some Stanley Cup records will never be broken, and One Eyed Frank McGee will forever be a part of Stanley Cup Folklore. One Eyed McGee was born in Ottawa, Canada on November 4,1882. One of 9 children born to John Joseph McGee and Elizabeth Crotty. John Joseph McGee was Clerk of Privy Council and ...
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on May 10th, 2011
The First International Ice Hockey Game 1886
He was not a hockey player nor did he have any connection whatsoever with the sport, but when George Longley boarded the Montreal-bound train in Chicago in late February, 1885 he triggered a chain of ...