Why are hockey goals made of iron?
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Trick question?  Frozen rubber hitting plastic or wood doesn't work very well.  Think small, solid object flying at 100 mph.
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Back in the day, hockey sticks were made from Rock Elm.  This wood was preferred because it was so strong yet light.  Since the Dutch Elm disease outbreak in the early 90's wiped out most of the supply, manufactures changed to White Ash (same thing most baseball bats are made of).  It's not as strong, but it's about 1/5 of the cost.\n\nIt's pretty rare to find a wood stick nowadays - sometimes wood blades, but not a wood stick.  They make the sticks in a very similar way to baseball bats.  The manufactures find a very straight grain in a piece of wood, cut to the desired length, and cut out a notch (hole) for the blade.  A wood, wood/fiberglass, or carbon composite blade is then inserted in the notch.  It's pretty rare to find a one-piece wood.  These were extremely expensive to make, and if you snapped your blade,  the whole stick had to be junked.  Two-piece designs allow you to snap the blades all you want and still re-use the same stick over and over.\n\nHowever there isn't much to a one-piece wood stick.  The manufactures took a larger diameter tree and cut with the grain and across the widest part of the tree for the blade.  This process would yield about 2 one-piece sticks for every 6' of wood.  Not too efficient.
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History\n\nThe earliest skates (c.9th cent.), made of bone, were found in Sweden. Wooden skates with iron facings appeared in the 14th cent. Skates made entirely of iron were introduced in the 17th cent. Steel skates, with straps and clamps to fasten them to the shoes, were sold in the 1850s, and later came the skate permanently attached to the shoe. Skating has long been a means of travel in countries with long, cold winters, such as Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, and especially Holland. There are references to skating in English books as early as the 12th cent. By the 18th cent. skating was not only a means of travel but also a well-established sport. European colonists introduced it early into America and Canada.
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Dangerous for the body + they provide an unfair edge. Sport is supposed to be about self-development, effort and achievement, not about chemistry. Or so they say.
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All of them:  Including Terry, and Gump and Baun, and how about Ryan Smith from this year's Edmonton Oilers picking up his chicklets off the ice in time to score a winning goal!\n\nAll hockey players are brave.  There are bigger athletes out there but there are none tougher.
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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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Sure. They have a goalie in Lundqvist who can carry them, but I think that this year they need more scoring punch than just Jagr. Teams like Ottawa, Detroit, Colorado roll 3 or 4 good scoring lines at you.
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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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In hockey, a game of power, finesse and speed played on ice, scoring goals are a priority item. A team is awarded a goal when a player shoots the puck past the opposition's goalie and into the goal. The goal itself, often referred to simply as the "net," measures four feet tall (1.22 meters) and six feet wide (1.83 meters). If someone scores a "hat trick" in hockey, it means that a player has scored three goals in one game.\n\nThe team with the most goals at the end of a hockey game is declared the winner. Hockey is one of the few sports that allows a game to end in a tie. Scoring one goal in a game of hockey is an admirable feat; scoring three goals in a hockey games is a rarity. Many players go their entire career without even coming close to scoring a hat trick. Hockey statisticians keep track of both team and individual highlights during a season. For one scored goal, a statistician will award a player one point. The player who passes the puck to a player who scores is awarded an "assist" by the stat man and also receives a point. While assists are a vital part of hockey and carry the exact same weight (one point) as a goal itself, assists are never taken into play when discussing a hat trick. A hat trick is based on goals alone.\n\nWhen a player in the National Hockey League (NHL) scores a hat trick, the fans, as a custom, toss their hats or caps on to the ice as a sign of their appreciation and respect. It's their way of recognizing the rarity of this feat. Hall of famer Wayne Gretzsky, had fans tossing their hats to the ice many times during his storied 20-year career. Of the many NHL records Gretzsky owns, the fact that he scored 50 hat tricks from 1979-1999 may be the most amazing. Akin to the grand slam in baseball, a hat trick is a feat fans will not often witness, but when they do, they won't soon forget.\n\n\nAnother link said:\n\nWatching a hockey player charge down the ice and slap the puck past a floundering goalie for his third goal of the game is one of the most exhilarating plays in all of sports. The term used to describe such a feat, "hat trick," has long been linked to hockey, and, after a bit of searching, we discovered its unusual origin.\n\nWe first visited the Word Detective, the online version of the popular newspaper column written by Evan Morris. He says the term came from the English game of cricket and cites The Oxford English Dictionary, which explains: "The feat of a bowler who takes three wickets by three successive balls: originally considered to entitle him to be presented by his club with a new hat or some equivalent."\n\nWe next checked out an article titled "Puck talk: A guide to hockey lingo" from The Dallas Morning News. In addition to learning that the terms "mucker," "pipe-fitter," "plumber," and "grinder" are interchangeable, we unearthed another interesting tidbit about the term "hat trick."\n\nIn the article, John Halligan, an NHL executive who writes a hockey trivia column for the NHL web site, says in the 1940s, a Toronto haberdasher used to give Maple Leaf hockey players free hats when they scored three goals in a game. Halligan also agrees that the term "hat trick" probably evolved from cricket.\n\nSo, what happens to all those hats that litter the ice? Well, it seems Dave Kindred, a columnist at The Sporting News, has been asked that question a few times. As we would have guessed, the hats are usually given to charities.\n\nHe shoots, he scores, he wins a hat.
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I'm not 100% sure, but I think it has to do with the goals scored when the player is on the ice.  If their team scores a goal, it counts as a plus and if the other team scores a goal while they are on the ice, it's a minus.  I'm pretty sure that's what it means.\nHope that helped.
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If your team scores with you on the ice you get a +\nIf the opposing team scores with you on the ice you get a -
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sure does, especially on the puck itself.  Game officials keep the spare pucks in buckets of ice shavings or in a freezer.  A warm puck against the cold ice causes serious friction, slowing the puck down.
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The standard international dimensions of an ice hockey rink are 60 metres long and 30 m wide. The ice is surrounded by a wooden or plastic wall, known as "the boards," which are approximately 1.22 m high.\n\nA red centreline divides the rink in half; two blue lines divide the rink into three zones: defensive, neutral and attacking. In addition to the centre circle, there are four face-off circles - two in front of each goal. Regulation goals are made of a metal framework with a net and measure 1.83 m wide by 1.22 m high and 1.12 m deep. Goals are centred on the goal line and set four metres away from the backboards so players can skate behind them.
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they are high in iron and fiber
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The above answer explain the metal process.  When someone says forged irons to a golfer it means players club in most cases.  The forged irons I have more feel. You can tell how well you hit the shot by the feel, unlike cast clubs.  The forged irons tend to have a smaller sweet spot that rewards you with a better shot.  The club makes you pay when you mishit the ball.  Cast clubs are more forgiving with off center shots.  A good player can work the ball better wth a forged club than a cast club.  Forged club can have the loft and lie changed cast clubs cannot.
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There are so many changes I don't know where to start. Well, players didn't wear padding. Goalie shin pads were first adapted from cricket shin pads. Skates were nothing more than blades you strapped onto your shoes and sticks were cut from tree branches. Ice rinks didn't have boards and the fans would stand right at the edge of the ice and often were hit by pucks and knocked over by players. Teams used to have nine players on the ice, which is now down to six. No one wore helmets (including goalies who first started wear face masks around 1960). I'm sure you can find many books on the history of hockey, not to mention websites on the topic.
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It is foul play to hit the ball with the reverse side of the hockey stick. The reason it being classified as foul ***could be*** possibly that the curve on the reverse side of the hockey stick could set off the ball in direction not intended by the striker and confuse the striker and remaining players as well on the field.