WC Inno

[hip check 0]

http://www.birthplaceofhockey.com/

Don't know if this will seal the arguement. It's kind of interesting to see the roots of the game no less. Some good photos of making MicMac hockey sticks, too.

[Miserable 6]

Besides comma splicing? I remember reading a few months ago about this picture found that was drawn by a Canadian soldier of a hockey game back in Nova Scotia, the earliest hockey artifact.

Actually a couple of months after that they found a painting done 32 years earlier of people playing hockey in Virginia of all places. While it is in dispute, this seems to be the actual earliest hockey artifact.

Mar. 17, 2004. 12:10 AM

Picture this: U.S. hockey in 1835

Painting seems to depict early game in Virginia

Canadian historians say claim is on very thin ice

BARRY DOREY

CANADIAN PRESS

HALIFAX—First they grabbed the world junior hockey championship.

Now the Americans are going straight for the heart of Canada's game with a claim it may have been born in Virginia.

An 1835 painting in the National Gallery of Art in Washington appears to depict an early form of hockey being played on a frozen river.

The revelation comes just weeks after the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia unveiled an 1867 work depicting what it called the earliest proof that hockey was played, apparently cementing Halifax-Dartmouth's claim as the birthplace of hockey.

But the American work, by folk artist John Toole, was produced more than three decades earlier.

David Howell of the Windsor Hockey Heritage Society said the work is "of no consequence" to Windsor's claim that the game was played in Nova Scotia in the early 1800s.

Martin Jones, a Dartmouth lawyer, author and hockey historian, saw a copy of the painting on the Internet. "I'm not impressed. It was common that other games were being played on the ice — cricket, hurley, polo."

International researchers who stand by their claim that Montreal hosted the first organized shinny match in 1875 also scoffed yesterday.

"Everybody tries to take one little isolated item and say hockey actually started here," said Ernie Fitzsimmons of the Society for International Hockey Research, a Toronto group.

CANADIAN PRESS

[chippa13 1844]

Well, the official national sport of Canada, Lacrosse, was taken from the Indians so why should hockey be any different? ;)

[Reaper 0]

Well, the official national sport of Canada, Lacrosse, was taken from the Indians so why should hockey be any different? ;)

Actually, a few years ago Hockey was decreed Canada's Official Winter Sport and Lacrosse was decreed Canada's Official Summer Sport.

[slapper_snipper_73 0]

Americans stole the game of basketball from us, now there trying to take hockey, whats next lacrosse?

[Smith 0]

Americans stole the game of basketball from us, now there trying to take hockey, whats next lacrosse?

When the indians played it, there was no Canada or U.S.A. So we all toke it from them.

[Chadd 916]

And I'm stealin' it. I'm taking it back for the black man to make up for all of the of the sh** you Motherf****** have taken from us.

/sorry, perfect time for a Jay and Bob quote.

[JR Boucicaut 3760]

"You da man, sir..."

"No, YOU da man, and that's the problem."

[Chadd 916]

Get me a blonde haired white boy to clean that up so I can enjoy myself

[slapper_snipper_73 0]

Jay and Silent Bob is the GREASTEST movie ever, beside how high lol

[mack 44]

How High? Good call, Siskel.

[JR Boucicaut 3760]

"If it hadn't been for the Lord, I wouldn't had a nann'notha b**** come into my life..."

[Veltri 0]

Canadians the play on tampa:

9 Eric Perrin Laval Quebec

19 Brad Richards Murray Harbour, PEI

27 Tim Taylor Stratford, Ontario

11 Chris Dingman Edmonton, Alberta

25 Dave Andreychuk Hamilton, Ontario

61 Cory Stillman Peterborough, Ontario

26 Martin St. Louis Laval, Quebec

21 Cory Sarich Saskatoon,Saskatchewan

22 Dan Boyle Ottawa, Ontario

37 Brad Lukowich Cranbrook, B.C.

38 Darren Rumble Barrie Ontario

44 Nolan Pratt Ft. McMurray, Alberta

55 Darryl Sydor Edmonton, Alberta

This concludes that the candian players on tampa are the ppl who make the team who the are and are the reason they won the cup ! :P

EDIT: vincent lecavlier

your an idiot 13 year old, no need to start crap like that.

[Chadd 916]

And your an older idiot. What's your point?