Why are Canadian hockey legends important to Canada?

Answer 1

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Ice Hockey is popular in Canada for several reasons. Among them are the apparent fact of its creation there and the quite suitable climate for anybody to play the sport most of the year.

Answer 2

Many people when they think of the great game of hockey think of or should think of Canada. Hockey was invented in Canada and is one of our major symbols. People have been playing hockey in Canada since the beginning of time. We have many strong hockey teams here in Canada and we just proved that when we won gold in the Olympics for men's and gold for women's. It was invented played and perfected here, in Canada.

Hockey is Canada's most popular spectator sport and is considered to be the national winter sport. Ice hockey was developed in Canada in the 1800s. The National Hockey League plays for the championship Stanley Cup, donated by Lord Stanley, the Governor General, in 1892. The Clarkson Cup, established in 2005 by Adrienne Clarkson, the 26th Governor General (and the first of Asian origin), is awarded for women's hockey. Many young Canadians play hockey at school, in a hockey league or on quiet streets-road hockey or street hockey-and are taken to the hockey rink by their parents. Canadian children have collected hockey cards for Canada reasserted itself as the world's greatest hockey nation at the Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympic Games where both the women and men's hockey teams won the gold medal. On May 12, 1994, the Parliament of Canada declared ice hockey as the national winter sport and Lacrosse as the national summer sport of Canada. Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice, in The game of Hockey has been around from the time of early civilization. Some of the reports find the earliest origin of the game 4000 years back. which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net. Hockey originated in Canada .

Answer 3

There were claims that hockey started in Montreal, Halifax and Kingston, but these still remain to be proven to this day. What was established, however, was the fact that the first hockey organization in Canada, the Ontario Hockey Association, was established on 16th November 1890.

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Answer 4

Hockey is the official sport in canada, also hockey was created in canada. So hockey very popular in canada.

Answer 5

hockey initially became popular in Canada because of the long, cold weather periods in the northern regions of the country.

Answer 6

Ill answer again, because its their national sport, and they are canadian.....the end.

Answer 7

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