Hockey isn't Canada's game, after all

[GenX]

When the NHL opens the new season in London this weekend, it will mark a fitting return to its roots, reports Randy Boswell.

With the Anaheim Ducks and Los Angeles Kings set to open the NHL season this weekend in London -- a match billed as a historic step in the ongoing globalization of our national sport -- Canada's leading hockey historian says the game is actually just going home.

It might surprise pro hockey's North American officialdom, its millions of fans in Canada and the U.S. and the millionaire skaters from California who will face off Saturday to launch the 2007-08 NHL schedule, but the sport, in fact, began in the rustic surrounds of the British countryside.

"This is really a return to its roots, to its embryo stage," says Bill Fitsell, the Kingston-based author of the 2006 book, How Hockey Happened, and founding president of the Society for International Hockey Research.

Much has been made of the fact that the Stanley Cup itself was created by a British silversmith in the 1890s at the request of Canada's then-governor general, Lord Stanley.


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Jolly good show, ol' chaps!

[1337]

It was made by a british person for Lord Stanley "CANADAS GOVERNOR GENERAL"

1890's Canada was still in Englands control.

Hockey is still Canadian

What is your point?

[1337]

Plus they were talking about the CUP not HOCKEY returning to it's roots.

You should read before you post, your making yourself as worthless as the paper you poop on in your cage.

[Huggy85]

He has no point....his country envy is just showing again

[GenX]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: T-pot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">


1890's Canada was still in Englands control.
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Says the guy who claims "Canada" burnt down the Whitehouse in 1814 [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif[/img]

Gotcha!!!

[GenX]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: T-pot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Plus they were talking about the CUP not HOCKEY returning to it's roots.

You should read before you post, your making yourself as worthless as the paper you poop on in your cage. </div></div>

From the article:

but the sport, in fact, began in the rustic surrounds of the British countryside.

game, set, match [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/wink.gif[/img]

Plus, it's a Canadian historian saying this!

Love it, love it, love it!!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/Coffee.gif[/img]

[1337]

It is a well known fact that Canadians burned down the Whitehouse.

Those men who accomplished the task were Canadian born soliders under the order of the British.

You got PWNED!!!! (yes spelled correctly, look it up)

[1337]

In the same mannar that Canada was a British Colony.

Before CANADA was CANADA, it was still a BRITISH TERRITORY!!

Man, your ignorance doesn't even see past your beak!

You still think Canada is in igloos!

[GenX]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: T-pot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">It is a well known fact that Canadians burned down the Whitehouse.

Those men who accomplished the task were Canadian born soliders under the order of the British.

You got PWNED!!!! (yes spelled correctly, look it up) </div></div>


"As the British army of approximately 4,000 approached, the majority of Washington residents fled the city. On August 24th American defenders, with President James Madison in attendance, were quickly routed by the invaders in a battle at Bladensburg a few miles from the city. A messenger was dispatched to the White House to warn First Lady Dolly Madison of the impeding arrival of the British. She and her staff fled by carriage across the Potomac - taking with her the full-length portrait of George Washington that had been torn from a White House wall.

That evening, the vanguard of the British army reached Capitol Hill and began its systematic destruction of all public buildings in the city. "

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Historical ignorance in Canada is staggering, simply staggering.

[GenX]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: T-pot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">In the same mannar that Canada was a British Colony.

Before CANADA was CANADA, it was still a BRITISH TERRITORY!!

Man, your ignorance doesn't even see past your beak!

You still think Canada is in igloos! </div></div>

Okay, I want one person, ONE person, to tell me that makes any sense. [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/lol.gif[/img] [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/crazy.gif[/img]

[GenX]

Mr. Fitsell and other sport historians have traced the game's very origins to a much earlier time in the marshlands of eastern England, where occasional freeze-ups prompted the farmers and fishermen of the "Fens" region to strap on skates and play the earliest versions of ice hockey about 200 years ago -- about a century before Lord Stanley's iconic gift to Canada.

Get out the Prozac for Canada, this one's gonna' hurt!! [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif[/img]

[GenX]

"Hockey on the ice originated in England," Mr. Fitsell has written, adding that "all the 19th-century folk recreations practised on field or ice in North America had their roots in Scotland, England or Wales through shinty, bandy and field hockey."

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Oh well, you still have...ummm...you still have...errr... [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif[/img]

[1337]

You have nothing, will never have anything [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/smile.gif[/img]

[GenX]

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[1337]

http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-41-1546...rit_of_hockey/

CBC reports it as originating from Windsor NS.

The "HOCKEY" you claim in england was STICK AND BALL, similar to CRICKET in England.

Better luck next time.

[1337]

Check your sources before you post, your looking worse.

[GenX]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: T-pot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">http://archives.cbc.ca/IDC-1-41-1546...rit_of_hockey/

CBC reports it as originating from Windsor NS.

The "HOCKEY" you claim in england was STICK AND BALL, similar to CRICKET in England.

Better luck next time. </div></div>

Your article is from 2001 [img]/ubbthreads/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/rofl.gif[/img]

Mine is a few days old!!

NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[1337]

A few days old from an independant so called historian.

NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!

CBC is bigger than your said historian, and is probably more accurate with their facts.

[GenX]

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: T-pot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">A few days old from an independant so called historian.

NEXT!!!!!!!!!!!!

CBC is bigger than your said historian, and is probably more accurate with their facts.

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I think a historian has more historical facts than CBC.

And...it's a Canadian historian!!

Love it, love it, love it!!

[1337]

http://www.town.windsor.ns.ca/HOCKEY.HTM

one more

The town must be lying, because an American says so?