The History of the Hockey Puck

A hockey Disk is a circular piece of vulcanized rubber. The standard hockey puck dimensions measure 1 inch thick, 3 inches in diameter, and weighs approximately 6 ounces.

The first incarnations of a began with square wooden pucks dating as far back as the 1880s. The original puck used in Kingston on March 10, 1886, can be found on display at the (Original Hockey Hall of Fame) in Kingston, Ontario.

The Mi’kmaq are credited with inventing the first hockey disk, just as they were also given credit for the early hockey sticks. The Evolution of The Hockey Stick (Hockey Stick History) (tedtalkshockey.com). The Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq began to carve hockey pucks from cherrywood in the late 17th century until Euro-Americans later imported rubber.

The origin of the word puck is obscure. The Oxford English Dictionary suggests that the name may have its origins in hurling, which meant to strike or push.

The first printed reference to the word puck was in Montreal, in 1876 ( Montreal Gazette of February 7, 1876), one year after the first indoor game was played there.

The legendary Art Ross was a man of many talents. In addition to being a professional ice hockey player and coach of the Boston Bruins, he was also an innovator; he was the first coach to pull a goaltender from a game in favor of an extra attacker, he designed the B-shaped goal net, which the NHL implemented before the 1927-28 season, he helped to create the red line to help speed up the game by eliminating defenders from passing from the defensive zone to the offensive zone, this rule stayed in effect until 2006 where it was illegal to pass over two lines.

On December 24, 1940, Art Ross was given the patent for his newly designed hockey puck. The new design incorporated bevel edges, which prevented the disc from bouncing, and was made from synthetic rubber rather than its predecessor of natural rubber.

The FoxTrax “smart puck” was developed by the Fox television network when it held NHL broadcasting rights for the United States. The biscuit had integrated electronics designed to help track the puck’s trajectory; a blue streak would show on screen to trace the biscuit, and a red streak would appear if the puck were shot especially hard. The smart puck debuted during the NHL All-Star Game at the Boston Fleet Center on January 20, 1996; the smart puck was eventually scrapped three years later when Fox Sports lost the NHL broadcast rights.

The hardest hockey puck’s ever been shot was clocked at 118.3 mph (190.5 km/h) by the Legendary Bobby Hull. However, there is controversy on this statistic, as some say that the methods of clocking a slap shot in Hull’s day were antiquated and inaccurate. In more recent times, the hardest/fastest slap shot belongs to Zdeno Chara, who was clocked at 108.8 mph at the 2012 All-Star Competition in Ottawa.

Update

The NHL has decided to go back and give technology another try. They are going to use a traditional sized puck fitted with an embedded battery and a small circuit board along with 6-inch-long tubes that emit infrared light pulses at 60 pulses per second.

According to NHL executive vice president Dave Lehanski it’s design has been in the making for the last 7 or 8 years.

The new rubber disc is a battery-powered infrared light that incorporates a triangulation system with 16-18 cameras in every ice rink. All NHL players will have an infrared sensor attached to the back of their jerseys. With light beam technology and PPT technology, all movement of players and the puck will be tracked and recorded.

The new high tech pucks will cost the NHL about $40.00 per puck; they will debut at the start of the upcoming 2020-21 season and will be used by all 31 teams as well as next season when the Seattle Kraken becomes the NHL’s 32nd team; only one side of the rubber will have the NHL logo with no team logo on the reverse side. Next year the pucks will go back to tradition with the NHL logo on one side and team logos on the reverse side.

The new rubber discs that make it into the stands will be deactivated and given to fans as a souvenir; even so, the accumulated data will already have been uploaded to servers before deactivation, the pucks battery will die out approximately 4-6 hours after leaving the playing arena.

Soucy Baron outside of Montreal manufactures the raw rubber. Raleigh-based SMT, Inc., loads the rubber disc with all tech components, circuit board, battery, and light tubes. Inglasco, Inc., in Sherbrooke, Quebec, applies the logos via the silkscreening process.

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