Ice Hockey History

The rules of modern ice hockey were devised by canadian james creighton.

Ice hockey history. The time line 1917 1945 early to mid 1800s. It has been tracked back to an irish game known as hurley by some historical annalists. The first known rules are published by the montreal gazette. Ice hockey the modern game was invented in the mid 1850 s by british soldiers based in canada.

However ice hockey probably evolved from the game of field hockey that has been played in northern europe for centuries. The international ice hockey federation iihf had been formed in 1908 made up of belgium bohemia czechoslovakia england france and switzerland with germany joining a year later. Still others claim that hockey evolved in northern europe. Minnesota duluth 29 11 2 scott sandelin.

Year champion coach score runner up host or site. Timeline of ice hockey march 3 1875. Late 1800s and early 1900s. Di men s ice hockey championship history.

The national hockey league nhl was formed on november 26 1917 after a meeting of club owners in the national hockey association 2013 world championship sweden and finland sweden and finland hosted 77th iihf world championship on 3 19 may 2013. Rules were set by students at mcgill university in montréal canada in 1879 and many amateur clubs and leagues were organized in canada by the late 1880 s. An artificial ice hockey rink was built in chelsea london in england. Amateur ice hockey leagues began in the 1880s and professional ice hockeyoriginated around 1900.

James creighton and several other mcgill university students were a part of this game. North american ice hockey appears in european countries taking its place alongside similar. Until the mid 1980s it was generally accepted that ice hockey derived from english field hockey and indian lacrosse and was spread throughout canada by british soldiers in the mid 1800s. In 1875 the first game of ice hockey with creighton s rules was played in montreal canada.

The game is believed to have been 1st played in the usa in 1893. History of ice hockey ice hockeys beginning is a little uncertain. Montreal canada was the place where ice hockey was played for the first time as an indoor game. The origin of ice hockey is unknown.

It was named glaciarium and was mechanically refrigerated. Thus the history of ice hockey starts from canada. The amateur hockey association of. All games were played in stockholm and helsinki.

The stanley cup emblematic of ice hockey club supremacy was first awarded in 1893 to recognize the canadian amateur champion and later became the championship trophy of the nhl.