Ice hockey

Ice hockey is the most popular sport in Canada.  It is necessary  two teams with six players each one to play and an ice rink . Players which are called skaters have to use a stick to hit a hard rubber puck into their opponent’s net. The word "hockey" is probably derived from the French hoquet ("shepherd's crook"), referring to the shape of the stick.

Those are some words that belong to the ice hockey vocabulary:

backhand shot: a shot or pass made with the stick from the left side by a right-handed player or from the right side by a left-handed player.

flat pass: when a player passes the puck to a teammate along the surface of the ice.

goalkeeper, goalie or goaltender: the heavily padded player who prevents opponents from scoring.

on-the-fly: making player changes while play is under way.

There is a National Hockey League which is made up of 30 teams, six of them belong to  Canadian cities. Some of them are:

Calgary flames.

Toronto Maple Leafs 

Montreal Canadiens

            

                 

There is also a variation of Hockey called: Sledge hockey, played by athletes with a lower extremity disability. Canada first participated in this category in 1976 but the teams of that period didn’t won any medals. In 1996 the Canadian Sledge hockey won a bronze medal at the world championships and in 2000 the team won a gold medal. 

Sources:

http://www.firstbasesports.com/hockey_glossary.html

http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/hockey-ice
 

Sports!

Hello! Now it’s time to talk about sports in Canada. Canadian people practice a lot of sports during the whole year. Winter sports are the most popular in Canada. 

The national sport is Lacrosse. The original play of lacrosse was  played with 100s of players on the field. It was played between tribes and it was used to end with an argument between tribes.

The name Lacrosse came from a French missionary called Jean de Brebeuf.  Later, William George Beers created a Lacrosse club and decided to stablish the rules of this sport. 

Nowadays, It is played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called lacrosse stick. The objective of the game is to score by shooting the ball into an opponent's goal, using the lacrosse stick to catch, carry, and pass the ball and try to avoid that the other team does that. 

 

  People playing Lacrosse

This sport has four categories: men's field lacrosse, Box lacrosse, intercrosse and women's lacrosse. Some Canadian lacrosse teams are: Calgary Roughnecks, Edmonton Rush and Toronto Rock. 

 

Sources:

http://www.ducksters.com/sports/lacrosse.php

es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrosse