Ice Hockey
Ice hockey has been a major winter preoccupati
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Ice hockey has been a major winter preoccupation of Canada's male youth for almost a century and is now played seriously in 20 countries, including the U.S.A. The word "hockey" itself was probably derived from the French "hoquet" for "shepherd's crook," referring to the shape of the stick. There is evidence that New York Dutch and New Englanders also played a game similar to hockey during colonial times, but these were more formless affairs. Ice hockey as we know it was first played in Montreal in 1875, with a set of rules formalized by J.G.A. Creighton, a McGill student (Marsh). The first organized team came into being in 1879 as the McGill University Hockey Club. The first "world championship" was held in 1883 at the Montreal Ice Carnival and was won by McGill. The first national association was known as the Amateur Hockey Association of Canada and was formed in 1886 by representatives from Quebec City, Montreal, and Ottawa. A group of colleges, universities, and military and athletic clubs formed the Ontario Hockey Association in 1890. The first Stanley Cup game was played in 1893, and Montreal AAA was victorious before a crowd of 5000 spectators (Marsh). The Montreal Maroons entered the National Hockey League in 1924 as the league successfully moved into the lucrative urban market of the United States, adding the Boston Bruins (1924), the New York Americans (1925), the Pittsburgh Pirates (1925), the New York Rangers (1926), the Chicago Black Hawks (1926), an
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Hockey at the college level is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. Play in New York includes the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference, with the colleges involved being Brown University, Clarkson University, Colgate University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, St. Lawrence University, Union College (N.Y.), University of Vermont, and Yale University. These schools are in Division I; those in Division III include the schools of the State University of New York Athletic Association, such as Brockport, Buffalo State, Cortland, Fredonia, Geneseo, Oswego,
Plattsburgh, and Potsdam ("Hockey Conferences"). Although St. Lawrence University is one of the smallest schools in men's Division I ice hockey, in the 1999-2000 season the team was season champion, marking its fifth ECAC tournament crown. The Saints also have a women's hockey team.
Minor and youth leagues proliferate in the state, and there are over 40 such leagues listed in a directory of the different state hockey organizations ("Clubs and Leagues Directory"). The primary minor league in the region is the United Hockey League, which includes the following
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