All other major sports are named after the object they play with Baseball, Football, and Tennis. Why isn't it called puck why is it called hockey? When this great game was created by our Canadian neighbors, children were playing puck on a frozen lake and a hawk swooped down and stole the puck. The hawk then proceeded to fly to his nest, and eat the puck. The children returned to their fathers all of whom didn't speak English very well and told them that the hawk eat puck, hawk ea puck, hawkea puck, became hockey puck so it became the game we now know as hockey. High School hockey rules
