Part one of term paper
The fastest of all team sports, ice has been described as a combination of "blood, sweat, and beauty." Stiffer penalties have not discouraged the players from using their basic equipment of sticks and skates as weapons, and this brutality has diminished the abstract beauty of the sport. Even though the game consists of a lot of fighting it i ...

Part two of term paper
... to skate in quite the same patterns and the sequences of their moves keep changing. The sport of ice came from the games played on makeshift ice skates in Northern Europe during the Middle Ages, similar to field , it involves hitting an object with sticks between two goalposts. Probably the first ice players were North American Indians who used field tools that were curved at the lower end. The French word for the similarly shaped shepherd's crook, hoquet, was attached by French explorers who w ...