Canada
the country. Canadian football has a long a rich history, and has become a large part
of Canada's national identity.
Canada is a nation with two official sports. Since its founding, and until 1994, the
official sport was lacrosse, a sport invented by Aboriginal peoples. In 1994 ice hockey
joined lacrosse as official sports of Canada.
The National Hockey League (NHL) is the world's premier professional ice hockey
league. Of its thirty teams, six are Canadian: the Montreal Canadiens, Ottawa
Senators, Toronto Maple Leafs, Calgary Flames, Edmonton Oilers, and Vancouver
Canucks. Ice hockey is popular in Canada because its area is sufficiently cold for
natural, reliable seasonal ice cover. Lacrosse is a team sport that is played by ten
players (men) or twelve players (women), each of whom uses a netted stick (the
crosse) in order to pass and catch a very hard rubber ball with the aim of scoring goals
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