#ice hockey history

[nei-ning]

LATVIA DID ICE HOCKEY HISTORY BY WINNING THEIR FIRST MEDAL IN WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP! 🥉❤️💐

It was bronze, but damn, they are HAPPY! I AM SO SO HAPPY FOR THEM! I have scream and laugh so much, cheering for them through the whole match!

Next match will be Germany - Canada. Will be cheering for Germany to win gold! >:D

[1920sitgirl]

The Vancouver Amazons, a 1920s women’s hockey team.

If you go back to 1900 you’ll find an anual tournament hosted by the city of Rossland and discover that New Westminster also began hosting competitions in 1914, but unfortunately as hockey arenas we’re commandeered for the war effort women’s hockey struggled to survive, thus began their fight for recognition.

In 1918 a strong team made up of high school girls hungry for the win schooled the Vancouver ladies hockey team. They called themselves the Amazons, their play was aggressive and they showed no fear, not only were they slick enough to win against VL but were bold enough name themselves the B.C champions. Their claim was controversial and the team would soon be put to the test.

In 1921 came the Alpine cup, A trophy donated by the Alpine Club of Canada for women’s hockey to the Banff Winter Carnival. Although having competitions to play in is now seen as the bare minimum this cup raised the profile of women’s hockey, in a sense women now had a Stanley Cup to play for. The cup was first won by the Calgary Regents and with the bitter feeling of losing still lingering this marked the start of the Vancouver Amazons revenge tour.

At a West Coast women’s championship that took place the same year, the Amazon’s were up against the Victoria Kewpies and American team the Seattle Vamps. This was the first international competition in women’s ice hockey history, the Amazons won every single game and proved they were a force to be reckoned with by not conceding a single goal. Striving forward with the feeling of victory their tour continued, back with a new momentum they were ready to compete again for the Alpine cup in the 1922 tournament. The roster for this tournament included Elizabeth Hinds, who, while competing became the first woman from British Columbia to score a hat trick in a game, Phebe Senkler who captained the amazons, Senkler’s Sister Norah who played defence, Forward’s Kathleen Carson and Nan Griffith and Amelia Voitkevic as goaltender. In the championship game they were once again face to face with their old rivals the Calgary Regents, the game was tied 1-1 and sent to overtime by Amazons player Kathleen Carson, Celebrated for “having a shot like a man’s” Kathleen went on to score again, winning the championship in overtime and securing her team the most coveted title in women’s ice hockey “Lady Champions of Western Canada”

Top photo = Members of the Vancouver Amazons

Middle Photo = A newspaper clipping highlighting the Amazons victory against the Vancouver Ladies

Bottom photo = The Vancouver Amazons with the Alpine cup

[annieqattheperipheral]

Black Life: Untold Stories | episode 6: More Than A Game

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CBC Gem | Black Life: Untold Stories is an eight-part documentary series that reframes the rich and complex histories of Black experiences in Canada.

[sgtgrunt0331-3]

"Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"

On February 22, 1980, the United States hockey team defeated the defending gold medalist Soviet Union to advance to the gold medal game during the Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.

[parttimesarah]

ULLMARK!!!!! 🖤🐻💛

[awesome-casuallyfamouscollector]

Air Baltic did an impressive lowpass go-around above the Center of Riga carrying the Latvian Ice Hockey team returning from Tampere after bronze victory yesterday, Latvia, May 29, 2023...

[rabbitcruiser]

Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeated the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3 on February 22, 1980.

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[nei-ning]

Finland just won men's ice-hockey World Championship tournament for the 4th time ever! Match was against Canada (who has won I-H WC 27th times) and that was HELL TIGHT match! But what's also wonderful is that this was first time EVER in history when Finland won ANY MEDAL in ice-hockey tournament held in Finland! Amazing match and huge thank you to Canada for giving us a match full of thrill!

Congratulations to both teams! :D

[1920sitgirl]

Members of the 1912 University of Toronto women’s hockey team.

[sam7sparks7]

New York should welcome Patrick Kane like the Indians welcomed the Simon Commission

With black flags and demands of 'Go Back'

[lindaseccaspina]

Rabbit Foot Keychains and Hockey 1931

Proof that the number 13 isn’t always a hoodoo was offered by the recent victory of the Almonte hockey team over the Pembroke sextet. Consternation reigned when the team and officials gathered at the local depot to await the train for the Lumber Town and found they numbered exactly 13. Mr. “R ” Julian , indefatigable mascot of the Almonte club, who always carries a good luck token in the form of…

[principiumindividuationis777]

A photograph of history's first indoor ice hockey game, played in 1875 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

[so-you-melted-22]

God I sound so insane, but GDR icehockey is so fascinating!

[rabbitcruiser]

Miracle on Ice: In Lake Placid, New York, the United States hockey team defeated the Soviet Union hockey team 4–3 on February 22, 1980.