Unknown Hockey Trivia
November 28th, 2011
The sport of hockey is not just a sport that’s played north of the American border in Canada and although there are some pretty rabid fans that inhabit the United States’ border to the north, there are also a ton of fans in the United States that also enjoy the icy sport and support their teams all year long whether there’s a season going on or not. For hockey fans in search of interesting facts from a sports website, one of the weirdest things about hockey is that out of all the hockey teams playing anywhere in North America, there are only two teams whose nicknames don’t end in an S and those teams are The Colorado Avalanche and the Tampa Bay Lightning.
One odd thing about the National Hockey League is that they had a rule that said their players could not take aspirin. The interesting thing about the rest of the rules of hockey is that there’s no official rule regarding the consumption of alcohol or the use of illegal drugs. For hockey fans today, they often see scores where only a few goals have been made so seeing a team beaten by a single goal is not that uncommon. Something far different happened at the 1949 world hockey championships between Canada and Denmark when Canada won the game with a score of 47 to 0.
Even earlier in hockey games was the fact that before 1917, players were not allowed to fall onto the ice in order to save a puck or they would be penalized.
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