Word: hockey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...HOCKEY...
Before the hockey season opened, officials of the National Hockey League passed rules designed to make a fast game a fast scoring game. They ruled that the forward pass, hitherto barred except in a team's own territory, should be allowed in all zones. Each pass, to be sure, must stay in one of the three zones in which every rink is divided by blue lines drawn 60 feet apart and forming a quadrilateral whose centre is also the centre of the rink. A player may not pass from one end of the rink to a teammate...
...Eagerly hockey followers watched to see how the new rules would work out. They found that goals were scored, as had been predicted, in great quantities. One night when five major league games were played in various parts of the U. S. and Canada, 42 goals were scored. Under the old rules there were sometimes less goals scored throughout the league in a night than the number of contests held...
...Warily hockey followers appraised the teams of the American and International sections of the League, trying to figure out which two teams may play off for the world's championship next spring...
Montreal Maroons. Terrific shoulderers, the roughest, heaviest team in hockey, the Maroons still have such bruisers as Stewart, Dutton and Babe Siebert in their lineup...