1. Hockey is one of the most popular sports games in the world, along with football, basketball and cricket. 
2. For obvious reasons, hockey is most popular in northern countries with cold climates, whose teams are among the strongest in the world.
3. Hockey is one of the most favorite sports. Moreover, this sport is quite tough, but very spectacular.
4. There are probably no boys who did not play hockey at least in childhood, and many watched it from the sidelines. Hockey battles are always interesting to watch.
5. The first professional hockey team was created in Canada in 1904. At the same time, hockey players switched to a new playing system - “six on six”. A standard size of the site was established - 56 x 26 meters, which has changed little since then.
6. Real men play hockey! Coward does not play hockey! For more than 100 years people have been playing this wonderful game, for more than 100 years people have been cheering for their favorite teams.
7. The first hockey match took place on March 3, 1875 in Montreal at the Victoria skating rink, which was written about in the local newspaper Montreal Gazette.
8. Despite the fact that the founders of hockey are Canadians, the World Championship was not held in Canada until 2008.
9. The founding date of the National Hockey League (NHL) is 1917.
10. The net on the goal appeared thanks to fisherman and hockey enthusiast Francis Nel Non. He did this so that there would be no disputes: did the puck hit the goal or not?
11. The hockey puck is made of vulcanized rubber and weighs 200 grams. Before the game starts, it is frozen so that it does not spring back.
12. In the first years of the existence of modern hockey, pucks were made of wood, or rather the first 4 years (1875-1879) a wooden puck was used to play hockey.
13. Moreover, the first hockey pucks were square.
14. A puck sent by a strong hand can accelerate to 193 km/h. 1
15. According to data provided by the Detroit Free Press, 68% of professional players have lost at least one tooth on the hockey rink.
16. The first goalkeeper to use a hockey mask was from Japan Tanaka Hoimoi. This happened in 1936 in Berlin.
17. To react to a puck shot from a distance of 18.3 meters from the goalie, he has no more than 0.45 seconds.
18. Only in 1904 the number of players in the hockey team was six people; before that, each team first had nine players, and then seven.
19. In 1886, a set of hockey laws was drawn up, each team consisted of 7 field players. Substitutions were only allowed for injured players. The teams consisted of a goalkeeper, front and back defenders, a center and two wingers, and a rover (“robber”) who played in front of the forwards along the entire front of the opponent’s goal.
20. Officially, George Owen of Boston was the first to wear a protective helmet in 1928, and Craig McTavish is the last hockey player to play without one in 1997.
21. The great football goalkeeper Lev Yashin also played hockey. His uniqueness also lies in the fact that he won cups in both of these sports. He played excellent hockey - as a hockey goalkeeper he won the USSR Cup and a number of other prestigious awards. Yashin was invited to the Soviet hockey team, but he refused, deciding to devote himself to football.
22. The use of the sports term “hat-trick” (from the English “hat” - hat) comes from a custom in the game of cricket. The idea was that if a player successfully threw the ball three times, he was rewarded with a brand new hat.
23. In ice hockey they use the concept of a “natural hat-trick” - this is when a player scores three goals in one match in a row (that is, no one else scored between his goals).
24. After a player scores a hat-trick (especially revered in the NHL), fans throw hats onto the ice - most often they are caps, although hat lovers can also part with their wardrobe items, the more it will fly further.
25. The fastest hat-trick in hockey dates back to 1952, when on the last day of the NHL regular season, Bill Mosienko, a forward for the Chicago Blackhawks, scored three goals in 21 seconds in the 3rd period of a game against the New York Rangers. As a result, this helped his team win with a score of 7:6, and Mosienko himself remains the author of the fastest hat-trick in hockey history.
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