What is your first hockey memory?

Question

What is your first hockey memory? What is the first thing in your life you remember that relates to hockey?

I am curious to see what got you started with hockey.

I was born in 1991, so the earliest thing I can remember came sometime in 1998. I was 7 at the time it happened. I remember my mom asked me to watch Hockey Night in Canada with her. It was a Pittsburgh vs Toronto game. This is what got me to become a Leafs fan, as well as Jagr fan. (Jagr is my favourite player). I have loved hockey ever since that night.

So, what is your first memory?

All you have to do is say the year you were born in, and if possible, the year the memory occured in and the memory itself. I am only asking for the year you were born in because I would like to see all the eras/times in which people started with hockey. It should be interesting to see.

I am looking foward to see some great answers.

Answer 1

I was 6 or 7 or 8 or something. I can't remember!

all i know is me and a teammate had a 2 on 0 breakaway.

and we skated down the ice and the goalie was all ready for the save but my teammate passed to me and I scored! It was my first goal and it was so awesome!

I didn't get alot of goals cuz I played D-Fence most of the time but I got alot of Assists.

Answer 2

Clint Milarchuk getting his throat cut open.

Answer 3

Born in 1992.

First memory was around when I was 7 or 8 years old, when I first learned how to play ice hockey.  I enjoyed it very much and I was pretty talented too.  However, I ended up quitting the sport and started playing tennis.  Then, when I was in 7th grade, I started playing again.  Presently, I'm a fan of watching the NHL, especially the Flyers.

Answer 4

I was born in Jan. 86....my earliest hockey memory was the 91' Cup celebration. I don't remember much..just lost of excitment...

My favorite memory was meeting Mike Lange when I was 8 or 9...."Get in the Fast Lane Grandma...the bingo games ready to roll."

Answer 5

I was born in 1976.  I was never into hockey until my mom took me to a Hartford Whalers game when I was 13.  It was a magical experience for me.  From then on I went to every Whalers game that I could get to....  right up until the Whalers left Hartford (it broke my heart).

Answer 6

I was born in 1984, but didn't get exposure to Hockey until my first game which was when the Minnesota Wild were an expansion team.  They were playing an exhibition game at the Target Center against Phoenix.  Someone in the crowd threw a bottle of something at Jeremy Roenick during the game, the game stopped and Jeremy had to be restrained from beating the guy in the crowd up.

Answer 7

I was born in 1991 too and my first memory of hockey is going to a rangers game at madison square garden, even though now I am a huge Flyers fan.  I was a rangers and devils fan when I lived in Connecticut from 1991-2000 and then we moved to Pennsylvania in 2001 and I have been a Flyers fan ever since.  I think I started playing hockey when I was about 7 or 8.

Answer 8

Born in 1986, the stop Richter made on Bure on penalty shot in the finals

Answer 9

My first hockey experience was when I was young and my friends and I would play street hockey in a tennis court. My first actually team memory was a terrible one,I got to start in goal in my first ice hockey game ever and was lit apart and let in 8 goals. I played better later in the season though.

Answer 10

i dont know if this is a great answer i just thought id write it...

i went to this company gathering with my stepdad because his job is soooooo important and we had to go to a hockey game(my first)and i really didnt want to go becaus i thought hockey was stupid and i ended up falling in love with hockey ever since ive gone there!!

Answer 11

When I Was In P5 About 6 Years Ago And The P6 teacher and a man from Australia called Mick done a program with us called stick stars.(:

Answer 12

I was born in November of 1992, and I can remember as far back as April of 1994. My first hockey memory was just watching my dad play in the beer league, circa 1996.

Answer 13

I was born in '74.For some reason the first thing that sticks out in my head was listening to the Flyers play the Rags on the radio from the Spectrum and hearing all the whistling at Ron Duguay and thinking that was funny.Second was Bernie Parent getting a stick from a teammate in the eye and seeing him rip his mask off and skate to the Flyers bench.

***YO Jacob-I'm not opposed to hitting a 16 yr old punk either.jk

Answer 14

I was born in 1971. My first memory of hockey was watching the 1980 winter Olympics with my parents. I remember they were both yelling and cheering as the U.S. men's hockey team won the gold medal. It wasn't until I was older that I realized how special that team was.

Answer 15

My first memory of playing hockey was waiting in line after the match with all the other players for stitches and treatment for our injuries,hockey in the fifties was just an all out war of attrition,last man standing.BUT,at least you knew you were alive.When i finished playing ice hockey, i switched to roller rink hockey,same thing ,pitched battles and punch ups,we used to stick each other just for the laughs,now i teach hip hop, disco and extreme skating techniques.

Answer 16

I was born in 1982.Came home sick from school in 1st grade and watched a recap of a Sabres game, then Clint Malarchuk was injured right before I turned 7 and I remember watching it.

Answer 17

Playing floor hockey at a YMCA with a bunch of other kids, none of us knowing what the heck we were supposed to do. Chase the ball! Slap at the ball! OWW! MY ANKLE!! I was born in 1982, and I must have been about six years old at the time.

Answer 18

Reading some of these answers has made me feel really old!  I remember watching hockey Night in Canada when I was about 4 or 5.  I really don't remember much about the games but I remember Peter Puck, he was my favourite.

Answer 19

i was born in 1992, and i remember playing hockey on the pond in our backyard every winter when i was little. i didnt become a fan of pro hockey until a few years ago. however, i did hear plenty of blackhawks stories from my dad, who was a huge bobby hull fan, he's part of the reason why im a fan today

Answer 20

I was born in '89 but sadly i really cant remember the Pens first two cups at all.  but idk i can just remember the Pens getting in the playoffs a lot in the 90s with Lemieux and Jagr and having great games against the Capitals in teh playoffs.  also i can remember the multiple overtime games in the playoffs and Kasparitis getting the game winner and Lemieux's return for retirement.

So obviously i am ecstatic about really remembering the Pens going to the Cup this year.  GO PENS

Answer 21

I remember playing roller hockey all day in the summer and occasionally after school during the school year. The guy that got me into hockey was the NAHL player of the year in the 2004-2005 season, Pat Lee.

I use to play with a bunch of guys that played AA or AAA. A few were on U.S. select teams. Most of them went on to play Junior A or in the OHL. I started off against some extremely good hockey players.

Answer 22

i was also born in 1991 i always knew my dad was a ranger fan and my cousin (who is the same age as me) was an islander fan but i never really watched the games. i think it was either 1997 or 1998 maybe when i first became a ranger fan and that is my first hockey memory. Me and my dad and my cousin were watching the ranger v. islander game and it was the first time i really watched it and got into it. it was a great game and me and my cousin were screaming at each other the whole time. the rangers won and me and my dad jumped up when ever they scored and high fived and stuff. we watched the game at my grandma and grandpa's house and they have a huge tv it takes up most of the wall so i watched my first game on the biggest tv i can think of. after that i became a die-hard fan and every time i would take a ride with my dad he would tell me stories about the rangers history and stuff

Answer 23

86. I clearly remember playing in pups (4 years old), falling over in net. And then novice having to go to a different part of the ice than pups, it was scary :P

My parents let me choose if I wanted to play, greatest gift ever.

Answer 24

scoring on my own net in novice, it just happened to be the GWG, ooo those were the times when u didnt get heckled for mistakes

Answer 25

I just remember sitting with my Grandpa as a little kid watching hockey on TV. Hockey and roller derby. Grandpa and I were close. He taught me about the game. I still remember just sitting there with him and watching

Answer 26

i was born in 1992. i earliest memory is sitting with my dad when i was like 4 watching the flyers with him. i  probably watched hockey even before then with him but thats what i remember.

Answer 27

DOB 1992

Marty Broduer vs Ed Belfour in the 2000 stanley cup final

personally my 54 save shut out when I was 8

Answer 28

when i was 6 i was at a hockey game with my uncle

and somebody hit the puck so hard it shattered through the glass and hit a guy sitting next to me

Answer 29

1991 Stanley Cup celebration at Three Rivers Stadium, I was 5.

Answer 30

I remember going ice skating when i was reallyyyy little and all these boys had sticks in their hands and were chasing after this little black thing.. lol a few years later i realized they were playing hockey and i got into it..

Answer 31

i think i was 4 or 5 and i went to watch my uncle play. and my family was cheering for him and i had a lot of fun.

...until the last five minutes of the second period. when he blew out his knee and we had to go to the hospital. it ended his hockey career.

LOL not a fun first hockey memory but it is my first one...