Cool Puck Facts 2
- Pucks are frozen before each ice hockey game in an effort to stop the puck from bouncing during play.
- The average NHL game will use approximately 12 hockey pucks per game. This is because hockey pucks tend to thaw quickly and NHL players must use frozen hockey pucks. One game used as many as 22 pucks.
- It is very rare that only one hockey puck is used during any given NHL game. However, it has happened. The last time one hockey puck was used during an NHL game, was in 1979. This puck is on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame.
- Even more rare, hockey pucks have been split during games. Patrick Kane, Andrew Procho and Shane Doan have each managed to break a puck against a goal post during their games.
- While you can be anything in life, the last thing you want to be is a hockey puck. This is according to comic Don Rickles anyway. In the popular animated movie — the original Toy Story (1995) — Don Rickles’ cleverly coined insult was “don’t be a hockey puck.”
Sources: 1. Wikipedia, 2. theFactfile
