whoever posts last in this thread is a dick

[StCapps]

http://torontosun.com/2014/05/24/hockey ... 74b63c0f38

The mother country that gave Canada warm beer, Coronation Street and Benedict Cumberbatch, can now lay claim to originating and exporting our cool national sport.

Yes, there’s some new, compelling and no doubt controversial evidence that hockey came from over ‘ome and was played, with basic rules, much earlier than 1875 in Montreal, generally accepted as the first official match.

Before you dismiss it all as hum-buggery (how many English players have won the Hart Trophy, anyway?), check the extensive work put in by a trio of hockey historians in Sweden and Canada. They will present their findings Saturday at the annual meeting of the Society for International Hockey Research in Penetanguishene, Ont.

Swedish medical doctor Carl Giden, countryman and sportswriter Patrick Houda and Montreal computer analyst Jean- Patrice Martel, 53, are putting their research on the table, ahead of a new book on the subject.

"So many people have such strong view that hockey’s birthplace is Canada," said Martel, who heads up SIHR’s Montreal chapter. "But my Swedish colleagues have kept looking the past 20 years and were always finding conflicting information. So they kept going. A couple of people had pointed them to the British origins, a totally different direction. But then they started to find hundreds of references. And a lot of the British ice hockey clubs had old books about where their teams had started. It was fascinating."

Gilden and Houda not only found the sport had flourished as far back as the 17th or 18th centuries, but that it was commonly called hockey.

* Letter from Charles Darwin, March 1, 1853, to son William, who had followed his father to Shrewsbury School: "My Dear Old Willy … have you got a pretty good pond to skate on? I used to be very fond of playing at Hocky on the ice in skates."

The trio’s new book will be called On The Origins Of Hockey, after Darwin’s ‘On The Origin Of Species.

* Penny Illustrated, Jan. 8, 1864: The Prince of Wales, future King Edward VII, was sketched playing hockey at Windsor. He wears a ribbon, which is how teams were distinguished.

* Of the seven most noted references to hockey in Canada in the 1800s, Martel noted six came from those of English background.

* In addition, there were letters from one of doomed Arctic explorer John Franklin’s early voyages about his men killing time playing hockey on skates.

"If there was a tipping point in the research, it was when they found a copy of Boys Own Book from 1829, describing various activities and mentioning hockey," Martel said.

"I know a lot of critics have said ‘it’s not really hockey unless you can prove there were rules’, so I had been nagging Carl and Patrick about that. But there were eight rules for hockey printed around the late 1860s.They were really field hockey rules that had been changed and some had been removed entirely, but they had adapted them. One of the notations was ‘with good skatand ers, this is a great game.’ " The kerfuffle about rules

Old news England, you suck at hockey now, it's like Canada inventing Basketball, I don't think the Americans give a shit, nor should they, they dominate the sport now, that's what matters.

[TheReal_ND]

MMA is the shit, there are too many fight cards these days, but I profit off of that, so works for me. Thank god it's not in Olympics, if it was it would be terrible.

It's just as stupid as your hockey crap. WAHHH someone sticked me i better make a show of throwing my gloves off and doing absolutely nothing about it or my fans might chimp out!

Fuck out of here man-baby

Hating on good sports, you're missing out bro, football isn't the only good sport, you got to broaden your horizons.

Implying I like football.

I think it's just as degenerate as your stupid hockey. Now fuck off to your other three threads about hockey. Yes we know Canada. You're a thing. A very silly stupid little thing.

[StCapps]

It's just as stupid as your hockey crap. WAHHH someone sticked me i better make a show of throwing my gloves off and doing absolutely nothing about it or my fans might chimp out!

Fuck out of here man-baby

Hating on good sports, you're missing out bro, football isn't the only good sport, you got to broaden your horizons.

Implying I like football.

I think it's just as degenerate as your stupid hockey. Now fuck off to your other three threads about hockey. Yes we know Canada. You're a thing. A very silly stupid little thing.

So what sports do you like? Or are you a fag who doesn't like sports, like Hash? I trash on monte for liking weird sports, but at least he likes sports, unlike some faggots.

[TheReal_ND]

I like the sport of making you fuck off back to your own thread. Is that a sport? Bye bye Canada. You will not be missed.

Lol getting so triggered over one super bowl thread you have to shit up three others when you have your own thread.

Now THAT'S PATHETIC

[StCapps]

I like the sport of making you fuck off back to your own thread. Is that a sport? Bye bye Canada. You will not be missed.

Lol getting so triggered over one super bowl thread you have to shit up three others when you have your own thread.

Now THAT'S PATHETIC

Fag who doesn't like sports alert. Go hang out with Hash and virtue signal about how you have better shit to do then stoop to watching a sport, loser.

[TheReal_ND]

No no. I take that back. I like the Negro Felon League because it triggers Canadians. Yes. Go Ravens!

[StCapps]

No no. I take that back. I like the Negro Felon League because it triggers Canadians. Yes. Go Ravens!

Too late, already said you didn't like Football. Sports Hating Loser. The NFL doesn't trigger me, there rules for determining what is and isn't a catch on the other hand, I'll admit it, that shit triggers me, every football league on the planet knows what a catch is, except the NFL, though at least they got it right in the Super Bowl, that could have been disastrous.

[TheReal_ND]

No no. I take that back. I like the Negro Felon League because it triggers Canadians. Yes. Go Ravens!

Too late, already said you didn't like Football. Sports Hating Loser.

Well you're simply wrong and lack any reading comprehension. If you go back three pages you will see what I actually wrote and that you are just straw manning again. Straw manning Capps. Sad!

[StCapps]

No no. I take that back. I like the Negro Felon League because it triggers Canadians. Yes. Go Ravens!

Too late, already said you didn't like Football. Sports Hating Loser.

Well you're simply wrong and lack any reading comprehension. If you go back three pages you will see what I actually wrote and that you are just straw manning again. Straw manning Capps. Sad!

If you like any sport, you are free to correct me, at any time, yet you haven't. You like baseball, basketball, golf, something? If you don't want to be lumped in with Hash, as a faggy sports hater, then speak now or forever hold your peace.

[TheReal_ND]

Too late, already said you didn't like Football. Sports Hating Loser.

Well you're simply wrong and lack any reading comprehension. If you go back three pages you will see what I actually wrote and that you are just straw manning again. Straw manning Capps. Sad!

If you like any sport, you are free to correct me, at any time, yet you haven't. You like baseball, basketball, golf, something? If you don't want to be lumped in with Hash, as a faggy sports hater, then speak now or forever hold your peace.

You're free to quit putting words in my mouth and insulting me when you run out of arguments. When have I ever said that? Go ahead. I'll wait.