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Six Top All-Time Hockey Journalists

• Elmer Ferguson (1885–1972)

• Milt Dunnell (1905–2008)

• Jim Coleman (1911–2000)

• Scott Young (1918–2005)

• Trent Frayne (1918– )

• Red Fisher (1926– )

Where did the word puck come from?

A hockey puck is a hard, vulcanized black rubber disk three inches in diameter, one inch thick and weighing between five and a half to six ounces. To reduce the tendency puck of pucks to bounce, they are frozen before use. The origins of the word are the subject of much debate. The first verifiable reference in print to the word in relation to hockey was in an 1876 game account in the Montreal Gazette. Some think the word derives from the Scottish and Gaelic word puc. In 1910 a book entitled English as We Speak It in Ireland defined the word as follows: “Puck: a blow. ‘He gave him a puck of a stick on the head.’ More commonly applied to a punch or blow of the horns of a cow or goat! ‘The cow gave him a puck (or pucked him) with her horns and knocked him down.’ The blow given by a hurler to the ball with his caman or hur-ley is always called a puck. Irish poc, same sound and meaning.”