When and why did the hockey puck get it's edge knurled?
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Ya like that guy said, also like the golf ball is dimpled to cut throught the air easier, the puck travels a more true path.
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There are several people and places where hockey is claimed to have originated. Some say Kingston, Ontario (ask Don Cherry), others in a place (I forget the name) in Nova Scotia. It was most likely College students looking to make use of the elements. Personally, I don't care where or how it was invented, I just care that it was!
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Hockey's origins are indeterminate. Indeed, the very definition of the game is at debate. Some observers accept as hockey any pastime where participants on skates use a club, or other wooden implement, to knock a ball or some such propellant about. Others say an activity cannot be recognized as hockey unless it is a contest between teams and conducted under an accepted set of rules.\n\n\nHunters in the Snow, by Pietr Bruegel (the elder), circa 1565\nCopyright/Source\n   \nAmusements bearing some resemblance to hockey are known to have taken place in Europe as early as the sixteenth century, or even earlier. For example, a painting by Pietr Bruegel (the elder) entitled "Hunters in the Snow" (circa 1565), depicts skaters carrying curved sticks. One of these figures is about to bring his stick in contact with a small object on the ice.\n\nThe earliest skate blades were fashioned from animal bones, but it is known from the journals of Olaus Magnus, the last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden, that polished iron blades were used in the Gulf of Bothnia area in the 1500s.\n\nSome hockey history enthusiasts trace the game's beginning to Mesopotamia, in the third millennium B.C. These historians point to Tablet XII of the Gilgamesh epic (an ancient text from the area that is now Iraq) that shows men employing curved sticks to manipulate a wooden ring over a dirt surface.\n\nRegardless of what these stalwarts along the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers or those on the lakes of northern Europe were actually doing, there is no evidence to suggest a progression of their play to a form that can be accepted as structured sport.\n\nResearch points to North America as the region where the idea of a contest on ice took hold and led to the sport we know today. Incarnations of the game are said to have occurred in New York and Newfoundland as early as the late eighteenth century. In recent years, the name of Windsor, Nova Scotia, has come to the forefront as hockey's birthplace. Proponents point to a passage in Thomas Chandler Haliburton's 1843 novel, The Attaché; or Sam Slick in England, as evidence. Sam, a fast-talking Connecticut Yankee, mocks the reminiscences he imagines his traveling companion will have of his childhood at King's Collegiate in Windsor, including "hurly on the long pond on the ice." Critics do not accept this passage as satisfactory evidence, noting that the source in question is a work of fiction. However Windsor's backers argue that the novel is largely autobiographical and that the "hurly" referred to is a direct recollection by Haliburton of what he knew as a youth around 1810.\n\nAnother Maritime entrant in the origins contest is Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Advocates base their argument on an array of events, innovations and developments that sets their claim apart from those of rivals. They note that primitive forms of the game were played on Dartmouth lakes and ponds as early as 1827. The Acadian Magazine in January of that year, for example, contains a poem including the lines: "Now at ricket with hurlies some dozens of boys/ Chase the ball o'er ice with a deafening noise." A newspaper report in February 1867 tells of "a match game called hockey, i.e. ricket" being contested by officers of the Garrison and the Fleet at Oathill Lake. As well, notes the Dartmouth claim, that city was the home of the Starr Manufacturing Company, Canada's earliest producer of ice skates.\n\nFor years, the city of Kingston, Ontario, enjoyed the title of hockey's birthplace. This resulted from a report of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association in 1942, which said that soldiers of the Royal Canadian Rifles played hockey on the harbour ice in 1855. The evidence has subsequently proved suspect and Kingston authorities themselves have rejected the claim, asserting that the game was not introduced there until 1886.\n\n  \nPage from Sir John Franklin's journals and corr
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So that the US could practice beating a team without even trying. We need to practice too you know. Canadian Soccer HAHAHA :) thats funny, but Hockey well thats a different story
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Rubber.  Players used to use rubber balls, but they bounced and rolled too much.  With experimentation, they found that slicing the top and bottom off created a puck that slid across the ice and was easier to control.
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Having not read Ralph's question I'm just guessing here, but a stick sharpened at both ends presents a problem in that a stick is at best a crude weapon/tool and being sharp on both ends makes it a treacherous weapon/tool.
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According to the official rules published by USA Hockey: \n\n"When a stoppage occurs between the end face-off spots and near the end of the rink, the puck shall be faced-off at the end face-off spot on the side where the stoppage occurs, unless otherwise expressly provided by these rules."\n\nUsually the goalie is on the side of the ice from which the shot came meaning the face-off is in the face-off dot on the side that the shot came from.
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You have heard of the New Jersey Devils Hockey Team right? Well what few people outside of the state of NJ know is that the name of the team is based on an old myth some 200 or so years ago. Something about the deformed then abandoned 13th child of some preacher's wife in Southern New Jersey. He was cursed and became this horrible devil-like creature that haunts the Pine Barrens of South Jersey to this day. \nThis link can probably shed more light on the subject than I could. \nhttp://theshadowlands.net/jd.htm
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Wow that brought back alot of old memories....I used to play knock hockey religiously when I was younger. To me it was the best game ever invented!....Thanks for the flashback!!!
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1/2 m V^2     ( 2 sec information is irrelevant)\n\nthis follows from the law of conservation of energy,\nthe entire kinetic energy of the puck turns into heat as a result of the work done by the rough surface upon the puck by friction.\n\nyes, work = KE
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Most historians place the roots of hockey in the chilly climes of northern Europe, specifically Great Britain and France, where field hockey was a popular summer sport more than 500 years ago. When the ponds and lakes froze in winter, it was not unusual for the athletes who fancied that sport to play a version of it on ice.\n\nNot surprisingly, the earliest North American games were played in Canada. British soldiers stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, were reported to have organized contests on frozen ponds in and around that city in the 1870s, and about that same time in Montreal students from McGill University began facing off against each other in a downtown ice rink. The continent's first hockey league was said to have been launched in Kingston, Ontario, in 1885, and it included four teams.\n\n\n\ninfo from: http://www.nhl.com/hockeyu/history/evolution.html
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My guess is that, compared to other sports that hockey is very similar to (like field hockey and soccer) which use only two periods, hockey required more upkeep of the playing surface. Two periods of thirty minutes would have the ice surface pretty unplayable by the end of the period.
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It is NHL officiating policy, and mostly it is about protecting the referees and linesmen from injury.\n\nSo when two opposing players are squaring off, or throwing punches, the refs are instructed to wait.\n\nOnce the players tie each other up, or go down to the ice, the officials jump in and separate the players.
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Why is this question in the Hockey section?
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Because when you get hit in the mouth by one thats what you say.  AARGH PUCK THAT HURT
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Ice hockey pucks used in regulation game play are made of vulcanized rubber.  One assumes they're made the way most rubber things are, which is by pouring rubber into a mold, or two molds and then joining the two pieces.  Then they'd probably get stamped with whatever league logo, and packaged.\n\nPucks are an inch thick by three inches across, and are frozen before games to make them easier to control.\n\nThere are different kinds of pucks... weighted practice pucks, junior pucks, and plastic pucks used in street hockey.\n\n\n***\n\n(After realizing I wasn't 100% sure about how even regulation pucks were made, I went and looked the process up and found a very informative site:  http://www.madehow.com/Volume-6/Hockey-Puck.html  Hope that helps!)
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It has!!!! Most games now are spent batting the puck around or else the old dump and chase game! U don't see many pretty plays anymore!!! I don't know what's up with some of these answers here either, the NHL is coma inducing! The NHL has too many teams and too little talent!!!!