what is the significance of squids being thrown onto the ice in hockey?
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Actually, they don't do it when a hat-trick occurs.  The tradition in yesteryear was to throw it on the ice for the first goal of the playoffs (and/or series).\n\nBack when the league was formed and there were only six teams, four made the playoffs and you'd need to win four games in each series to win the Stanley Cup.  Four wins in each series meant eight wins total... one win for every leg of the octopus.\n\nNowadays, Detroit fans throw them on the ice every chance they can.
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Hockey and Cricket are nothing alike. Cricket has more in common with Baseball, but instead of running around bases, you run back and forth between the bails. The pitcher is trying to knock down the bails behind the batter. It's kind of dumb.
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a sport to play or watch \nPlay-Hockey\nWatch-football
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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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Why is this Question in the Hockey section?
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IMO, *anybody* is welcome to be a fan of ice hockey.\n\nKevin Weekes was one of my favorite players before he moved to the NY Rangers!
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Figure skating is a sporting event in which individuals, mixed couples, or groups perform spins, jumps, and other moves on ice skates, often to music. There are international competitions for figure skating, such as the World Championships, and figure skating is also an official event in the Winter Olympics. \n\nThe winter Olympic events include:\n\n* singles for both men and women;\n\n* couples skating with a couple consisting of a man and womn; and\n\n* ice dancing with a couple  requiring more choreography.
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Why is this question in the Hockey section?
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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.
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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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WHY IS IT GOING OVER THERE FOR??? HOCKEY IS EVEN PLAYED THERE?
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couple things that i noticed from others answers that are wrong...  Icing is not when the puck goes past the opposing players blue line and then past the goal line (which passes from side to side across the front of the goal).  Icing is when the puck is shot from behind the red line (center ice) without being touched and then passes the line that extends across the ice from side to side at the goal, (goal line).  If the puck is moving slow and barely crosses the line, the Icing is waived off by the official.  Or if the goaltender comes out of his goal crease (blue area directly in front of the net) whether he makes a play on the puck or not, the icing is waived off.  I'd also like to note that Overtime is not 20 mins, it is 5mins during the regular season in which whoever scores first, wins (sudden death).  There is no such thing as a tie anymore.  During the regular season, if the game is tied after 3 periods, they go to a 5 min sudden death overtime.  If it's still tied after the overtime, the teams go to a shootout in which 3 members from each team get an individual breakaway shot (1 on 1) with the goaltender.  whichever team scores the most out of the 3 shootout chances wins.  if they both score the same ammount out of their three chances then the shootout continues, 1 person at a time, from each team, until 1 team scores and the other does not.  for the playoffs, overtime is 20 mins and it's a sudden death.  If nobody scores, then they go to another overtime of 20 mins, and they will continue to do so until 1 team scores.  there is also a such thing as a double minor penalty, which the player is assessed 4 mins instead of the reg 2 for a minor penalty.  also, a new rule that they incorporated this season is that if a player gets into a fight within the last 5 mins of regulation (3rd period) then he is assessed a 10 min penalty (essentially the rest of the game) plus a 1 game misconduct, which means he's not playing at all in the next game.  a hand pass is when a player passes the puck with his hand, to another player.  a hand pass is allowed, but only in yr own (defensive) zone (from the blue line, back toward the goaltender).  you are not allowed to handpass in the neutral zone (from blue line, past center ice to the other blue line) or the offensive zone (blue line of opposing teams goaltender side toward their goaltender).  Yr not allowed to play with broken equipment.  for example, if the stick cracks but does not break completely, and you continue to play with it.  it's a penalty.  there's so many rules to the game.  So, I'll tell ya what.  whatever u wanna know, just click on my avatar and send me an email and I'll help ya out.  I could go on forever with this answer cause there's so many rules, that most people don't even know about.  I just get boared at work and read the NHL rulebook a lot.  if you want, you can check it out at NHL.com and just click on the quicklink for rules.  pretty interesting...
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1. Icing is called immediatly when the puck crosses the back goal line instead of the player having to touch the puck.\n2. The team icing the puck can change lines, whereas NHL cannot change lines.\n3. No overtime in preliminary rounds of olympics, so there can be ties.\n4. Overtime in quarterfinals and on, are sudden death, 1 - 10 minute period. 4 on 4 players. If no winner at the end, they have a shootout as the NHL now does, cept they go 5 rounds of shooters instead of 3 as the NHL does.
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Play hockey because it takes guts and discipline, and those two qualities alone will take you far in the world.\n\nPlay hockey because it's a thrill, and fun because it's fast and dangerous and taking some calculated risks is good for everyone, male or female.\n\nPlay hockey because you will get closer to the people on your hockey team than any other team you'll be on in sports.\n\nPlay hockey because in life you need to stand your ground, and yield nothing, and go all out, and you'll learn all those things in one minute and fifteen seconds on the ice.\n\nPlay hockey because young women who participate in sports are shown in studies to have higher self esteem and better grades than those who do not.\n\nPlay hockey because everyone needs to have a sense of their own mortality and nothing like 60 minutes on the ice will do that for you.\n\nExcept maybe skydiving.\n\nPlay hockey because you already know how to skate and skating's half the battle.\n\nPlay hockey because it's a great litmus test for boys.  The ones who are intimidated aren't worth a second glance.  The ones who think it's cool are.  The ones who come to your games are worth your phone number, and any guy who grabs his gear and joins you on the ice is one you should consider hanging onto.\n\nPlay hockey because you'll love it.  Pretty much anyone who starts -- girls or boys -- winds up with hockey as their passion, and we all need a passion in life.\n\nPlay hockey because it will be different, and will open doors into new experiences for you.  You will learn things that girls who play tamer sports will never know.  Things like reall grit, real toughness, and that the bigger they are, the harder they really do fall.\n\nPlay hockey because if you ever choose a vocation like firefighting or the military, you cannot have a better starting point.  You will have already learned important lessons and skills vital to those kinds of jobs.\n\n(Maybe you better not tell your mom that last one, but it's true -- I've done firefighting and hockey both. ;) )\n\nPlay hockey because it's fun.\n\nGood luck with your mom -- as I've said to others here, maybe make a deal with her that if you play you maintain a certain GPA.  If you don't hold up your end of the bargain, you'll quit.\n\n**\nWith due respect to Zelda, I don't think checking means "exciting."  Women play a different, less physical game much of the time, simply because we have no reason to use our size when size isn't our best advantage.  Women tend to be fast, technical players.  They can also be aggressive, it all depends on the player.  But I've never seen or participated in a 'boring' women's hockey game.
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tradition\njust like when they hit their sticks against the goalie's pads \nafter he makes a good save. that was originally done to make the pads bigger, because when they were made of leather in the earlie days, htey would shrink after absorbing water(from the ice)
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It is fast and many people can't follow the puck.  Others do not like the fighting that is sometimes involved.  \n\nHockey is a 'cold weather' game and a lot of the US and southern hemisphere countries don't have the availability of ice rinks to play/practice on and it can't be done outside.  Thus is wasn't something they played as a kid and hold on to fondly as an adult.\n\nAnd let's face it, girls in volleyball uniforms are much cuter than guys in oversized shorts and lots of pads.
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"Do you believe in miracles? Yes." That was al michaels saying that in one of the biggest upset set of all time when the us hockey team beat the russian in 1980 winter games in lake placid in the semifinal play, what is now called the Miracle on Ice. This event was almost impossible to think in the begin of the olympics that this was going to happen because the us team was a bunch of college kids agaist the russian team was practacilly professionals that won gold for the last 3 winter olympics and who already beat some pro hockey team the the New York Rangers and the Montele Candians. It was aslo important because america need heros because the iran hostage and other things were happening. This aslo symbolized democry overtaking coummism under turmenous odds. This game was so powerful that people who don't watch hockey or sports remember watching this game.