What does PIM stand for in hockey?
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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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goal against your team when you are on the ice -1\n\ngoal for your team when you are on the ice +1\n\n\nIf you are on a good team, your +/- gets high\n\nIf your team sucks, your +/- might be quite low\n\nGood point, silverbullet - and although they'll never do this, I think it should be -0.5 if you are scored on while short-handed, and +0.5 if you score when on the power play.  And it should be -1.5 if you are scored on while on a power play, and +1.5 if you score while short-handed.  Just my opinion.  LOL
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I believe it stood for Canadian Hockey Club
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check the hockey database
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Hockey is for real athletes and competitors....fighting in hockey isn't fighting just to fight...as emotional a sport as hockey is fighting is usually used to spark a team and get your fans and teammates rallied up. Sometimes fighting occurs to send a message to the opposing team or player in particular. By no means is hockey a "retarded sport" , it's just not like others where you can be a cockey shit talker and get away with it.  If your going to run your mouth on the ice you should be able to back yourself up because it's not like football or basketball where opposing players sissy slap each other uncontrolabally. That pretty much sums it up.
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a sport to play or watch \nPlay-Hockey\nWatch-football
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Ice hockey\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nJump to: navigation, search\nFor the NES video game of the same title, see Ice Hockey (video game).\nIce hockey, referred to simply as "hockey" in Canada and the United States, is a team sport played on ice. It is one of the world's fastest sports, with players on skates capable of going high speeds on natural or artificial ice surfaces. The most prominent ice hockey nations are Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States. While there are 64 total members of the International Ice Hockey Federation, those seven nations have dominated ice hockey. Of the sixty medals awarded in men's competition at the Olympic level from 1920 on, only six did not go to one of those countries (or a former entity thereof, such as Czechoslovakia or the Soviet Union) and only one such medal was awarded above bronze. [1]\n\nIce hockey's worldwide popularity is concentrated primarily in locales cold enough for natural, long-term seasonal ice cover. It is one of the four major North American professional sports, represented by the National Hockey League (NHL) at the highest level. It is the official national winter sport of Canada, where the game enjoys immense popularity. Six of the thirty NHL franchises are based in Canada, but Canadians currently outnumber Americans in the league by a ratio of almost three to one, and about thirty percent of the league's players are non-North Americans. The sport's popularily in the US is centralized in certain regions, notably the Northeast, the Upper Midwest, and Alaska.\n\nContents [hide]\n1 History \n1.1 Foundation of the modern game \n1.2 The Professional Era \n2 Equipment \n3 Game \n4 Penalties \n5 Tactics \n6 Periods and overtime \n7 Women's ice hockey \n8 Sledge hockey \n8.1 Sport description \n8.2 History of sledge hockey \n9 International competition \n10 Hockey in popular culture \n11 Attendance Records \n12 Terminology \n12.1 Statistics \n12.2 Personnel \n12.3 Rink \n12.4 Penalties \n12.5 Shot types \n12.6 Game play/random \n12.7 Equipment \n13 See also \n14 External links \n15 Notes \n \n\n\n[edit]\nHistory\n \nDutch burghers playing a game that looks much like ice hockey. \nDutch burghers playing a game that looks much like ice hockey.Games between teams hitting an object with curved sticks have been played throughout the world since prehistoric times. The word "hockey" has been used since the 16th century, but its etymology is uncertain. It may derive from the Old French word hoquet, shepherd's crook, but it may also derive from the Middle Dutch word hokkie which is the diminutive of hok, meaning literally shack or doghouse, but which in popular use meant goal. Many of these games were developed for fields, though where conditions allowed, they were also played on icy conditions , as shown in 16th-century Dutch paintings where a number of townsfolk play a hockey-like game on a frozen canal\n\nEuropean immigrants brought various versions of hockey-like games to North America, such as the Scottish sport of shinty, and the closely-related Irish sport of hurling. Where necessary these seem to have been adapted for icy conditions; for example, a colonial Williamsburg newspaper records hockey being played in a snow storm in Virginia. Both English- and French-speaking Canadians played hockey on frozen rivers, lakes, and ponds using cheese cutters strapped to their boots, and early paintings show hockey being played in Nova Scotia. There are claims that ice hockey was invented in Windsor, Nova Scotia and named after an individual, as in 'Colonel Hockey's game'[2]. Proponents of this theory point out that the surname Hockey exists in the district surrounding Windsor, though this is an unlikely coincidence. Author Thomas Chandler Haliburton wrote of boys from King's College School in Windsor playing "hurley on the ice" when he was a student there around
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(His name is spelt DuNois)\n\nHow can you people be so absentminded?  Notice how the question doesn't say "current hockey player"?  How can you not think of Gretzky, Howe, Lemieux, Phil and Tony Esposito, Bobby and Brett Hull?  This is just a small fraction of the greatest players in the world.
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www.hockeyfights.com/forum/  \n\ngo ask on there.
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Group A: Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. \n\nGroup B: Sweden, Slovakia, USA, Russia, Latvia and Kazakhstan. \n\nRules:\n\nIn the Olympics, tied playoff games are followed by ten minutes of sudden death overtime. If the game remains tied, it is decided by a shootout. An Olympic hockey shootout uses five shooters from each team.\n\nThe international ice is 210 feet long and 98 feet wide. Goal lines are 13 feet from the end boards. \n\nGoaltenders can play the puck anywhere behind the net. \n\nInternational hockey uses "no touch" icing. Sponsored Links\nThe play is whistled down as soon as the puck crosses the goal line. \n\nWhen a penalty shot is called during Olympic hockey, any player on the shooting team may be selected to take it. \n\nPlayers fighting in Olympic hockey receive a match penalty and are ejected form the game. \n\nMost of the rest of the rules are similar to the NHL.\n\nFormat:\n\nRound robin play within each group.\n\nThen the following playoff schedule:\n\nWednesday, Feb. 22 \nQuarterfinal (A1-B4)\nQuarterfinal (A2-B3)\nQuarterfinal (B1-A4)\nQuarterfinal (B2-A3)\n\nFriday, Feb. 24 \nSemifinal(winner A1-B4 vs. winner B2-A3) \nSemifinal(winner B1-A4 vs. winner A2-B3)\n\nSaturday, Feb. 25 \nBronze Medal Game\n\nSunday, Feb. 26 \nGold Medal Game
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nhl.com   usahockey.com   or google hockey. good luck! its a really fun and exciting game, the best if you ask me.
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here u go http://www.pyh.org/hockey_dictionary.htm
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You need to define popularity. If you are going by number of nations who play, then most likely field hockey. If you are going by number of players worldwide, then probably field hockey as well. If you are going by television ratings, then probably Ice Hockey. \n\nFinally, if you say Hockey outside North America, it means FIELD hockey not ice hockey. I was on a field hockey tour in the Caribbean and we were trying to find out the NHL playoff scores (pre-internet) and confused everyone by asking for hockey scores (we got them, the local field hockey league scores).
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in hockey, you are either left handed or right handed, just like golf. nash is the name of a star player (rick nash), and every hockey player curves their sticks. nash indicates that the stick is a duplicate of his curve and left and right indicate which hand that stick is
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I would think your best bet is to contact the Irish Icehockey Association, IIHA, and ask. The contact info is as follows:\n\n13 Raleigh Square\nCrumlin\nDublin 12\nIreland\nTel: (01) 455-0222\nFax: (01) 473-4351\nE-mail: info@iiha.org\n\nYou could always ask them about the Dublin Flyers, which used to be a team, but today apparently is more of a social club for Irish hockey fans if I understand the situaiton correctly.\n\nGood luck!
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Hockey is more popular