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The nationally favorite game in Our Country, one of the most popular sports disciplines in the world – ice hockey – certainly deserves to have its own holiday. The popularity of the game with sticks in our country is so great that ice hockey with five players and a goalkeeper has several memorable dates. We understand the history of their origin, traditions, participants in the celebration of the All- Hockey Day 2022.
What date is Ice Hockey Day 2022 celebrated in Our Country
Ice hockey is traditionally a winter sport and it is logical to “collect” memorable dates for it already in December. Indeed, for a long period of time, hockey players went out to play exclusively in open areas, when the weather allowed the rinks to flood. Now professional hockey has gone completely and irrevocably under the roof and “moved out” according to the calendar at the very beginning of August. And all the same, on the periphery, in the hinterland, with the onset of the calendar winter, part of the male (and female) population of our country uncovers their skates, picks up clubs and goes out into open areas.
Therefore, the Hockey Federation, headed by the famous goalkeeper, multiple world and Olympic champion Vladislav Tretiak, established the All- Hockey Day on the first day of winter – 1 December. However, there is still a similar date in the winter calendar. Exactly three weeks later 22 December It is customary to celebrate the birthday of national hockey. It was on this day in 1946 that the first official Canadian (as the puck game was called) hockey games were held in the Soviet Union. The games of the very first national championship were hosted by eight cities. Decisive fights were held in Moscow.
history of the holiday
The All- Hockey Day began to be celebrated relatively recently. On December 1, 2007, on the initiative of Vladislav Tretiak, 150 ice rinks in our country welcomed hockey fans.
A noteworthy fact: in the 90s and the first half of the 00s, difficult times for all domestic sports, a series of victories for the national hockey team was interrupted. Only in the spring of 2008, as if inspired by the appearance of their holiday, hockey players, after a long break, regained the title of world champion. Moreover, that victory gave rise to new successes of the Red Machine, as by analogy with the USSR national team, they began to call the squad. The pinnacle of these victories is the long-awaited gold of the national ice hockey team at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang in 2018.
Of course, the new victories of hockey players in the international arena serve to further popularize the game in our country. Under the patronage of the President of Our Country, a massive amateur structure was created – the Night Hockey League. Hockey continues to develop not only among the stronger sex. Recently, women’s professional and amateur leagues have been created in Our Country with a fairly wide geography. Sledge hockey is developing – hockey for people who have problems with movement in everyday life. All this increases the base of players who can rightfully celebrate and celebrate the All- Hockey Day.
Holiday traditions
The goal of Hockey Day is to preserve and increase the glorious history of the game in Our Country. Various formats allow this: meetings and honoring of legendary veterans, hockey games in a wide variety of numbers. Modern stars of the Kontinental Hockey League teams come to the hockey sections of children’s and youth sports schools to conduct open lessons and master classes. Often on this day, on the ice with a stick and a puck, you can see the President of Our Country and other famous politicians. Such attention to hockey only emphasizes the importance of this sport discipline for our country.
Domestic hockey, which gave the whole world a magnificent galaxy of masters, is simply obliged to have its own personal day. The celebration of Ice Hockey Day 2022 throughout the Federation will only emphasize the role this sport plays in one of the largest countries in the world.