Did you know:
- You will be playing 5 full games of road hockey over the course of the day.
- The average NHL player plays 14 minutes per game. If they played 5 games in one day that would amount to 70 total minutes of playing time.
- You will be playing 5 games of ROAD HOCKEY - which, keep in mind, has no coasting on ice, no down time.
- Assuming you have two sets of lines in the 3-on-3 format, you can expect to play 15 minutes per game, which will work out to roughly 75 MINUTES OF HOCKEY THAT DAY!!
- There will be upwards of 40-50 games of road hockey being played simultaneously - that’s a lot of road hockey!
- You will need to train and build up your endurance. Training Games and times will be posted on the website once the snow clears in 2012.
Quirky Road Hockey Facts:
- A player who constantly stays in the opposing teams end waiting for an easy chance to score is referred to as a "goal suck," "loafer," "chippy hanger" or "cherry picker".
- At every face-off, opposing players are supposed to line up and bang their sticks together 3 times over the game ball, sitting on the ground between them. Every time their sticks touch they say a letter from "NHL". So, first time "N", second "H" and so on. After the "L", the ball is live and it’s Game On!
- The orange ball you will be using is referred to as a No Bounce Orange Ball and was invented by Raymond W. Leclerc in 1970.
- It is believed that road hockey first started being played when wealthier neighbourhoods in North America began paving their streets in the 1900s.
- Art Ross, the same man whose name was given to the trophy awarded to the leading scorer in the NHL each year, was said to be one of the original players of road hockey in Westmount, QC.
|