Pucked Up Parents - Youth Hockey
Aug 28, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min · 12 segments
Michael & Angela kick things off with their usual **“This Week in Youth Hockey”**, where Angela shares the highlights from the 12-year-old’s Welcome Back to Hockey parent meeting. The message from the…
So let's go all the way back.
And it drew influence from a number of different 18th and 19th century games.
And the way they were termed are stick and ball games.
So go ahead and make your jokes now.
How many do I get? Can I get one at least? You get one bad dad joke.
Okay, so we were so poor growing up that I would cut holes in my pockets so I could play stick and ball myself.
Geez, that's terrible.
I can't believe
you just said that.
Anyways, some of those games, let me quiz you now to see if you know what some of these games that hockey was loosely based on are.
Can
I stop you one second? So now these, it seems like based on the 18th and 19th century, much like our other sports, I know probably over time they developed, but it seems like everything falls out of the 1800s.
And, of course, baseball, which it's questionable historic-wise that Abner Doubleday invented it.
But he gets credit for some bizarre reason.
I think it was a poem written later on that accredited him.
And James Namesmith, who came up with basketball.
It just seems like it more or less evolved from these games I presume you're about to present to me.
That's my understanding as well.
And I appreciate your other sports history.
I did back 30 years ago when I was in college, took a sports history class.
So I had to dredge up some of those memories and some of the things that we talked about in that class.
But Yeah, we talked.
So what I want to quiz you on now is some of these games that hockey was loosely based on.
So let's go all the way back.
And it drew influence from a number of different 18th and 19th century games.
And the way they were termed are stick and ball games.
So go ahead and make your jokes now.
How many do I get? Can I get one at least? You get one bad dad joke.
Okay, so we were so poor growing up that I would cut holes in my pockets so I could play stick and ball myself.
Geez, that's terrible.
I can't believe
you just said that.
Anyways, some of those games, let me quiz you now to see if you know what some of these games that hockey was loosely based on are.
Can
I stop you one second? So now these, it seems like based on the 18th and 19th century, much like our other sports, I know probably over time they developed, but it seems like everything falls out of the 1800s.
And, of course, baseball, which it's questionable historic-wise that Abner Doubleday invented it.
But he gets credit for some bizarre reason.
I think it was a poem written later on that accredited him.
And James Namesmith, who came up with basketball.
It just seems like it more or less evolved from these games I presume you're about to present to me.
That's my understanding as well.
And I appreciate your other sports history.
I did back 30 years ago when I was in college, took a sports history class.
So I had to dredge up some of those memories and some of the things that we talked about in that class.
But Yeah, we talked.
So what I want to quiz you on now is some of these games that hockey was loosely based on.
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