Canada's National Sports

Canada has plenty of sports, like any other country, but did you know that this country has actually two national sports? Canada has a national sport for summer and other one for winter.

In summer, their national sport is "Lacrosse", a two teams sport between 10-person teams, played using a rubber ball and a crosse, which is a long stick with a net on the top to handle the ball. Is a rough sport, so if you want to play it you will need appropriate equipment which consists of: Helmet, shoulder pads, arm pads, gloves, and rib pads.
The offensive objective of this game is shooting the ball into an opponent's goal to score, using the stick to handle, pass and catch the ball to do it, and the defensive objective is to save your goal from the opponent's shoots, keeping your scoreboard with the less possible points for the other team. You can play in four positions: goalie, defense, midfield and attack, like the world-wide known football.

The origins of this sport goes back to American natives, and in Onondaga, Lacrosse's original name was "dehuntshigwa'es", that means "man striked with a round object".


Ice Hockey, in winter, is the canadian national sport. It consists of two teams of 6 players; 5 skaters and 1 goaltender, all on an ice surface. The objective of hockey is "to score more goals than your opponent on their goaltender and to have fun!" as the Ontario Hockey Federation says. Players have to shoot the puck with a hockey stick into the goal to score. The essential equipment needed to play is: Helmet, skates, mouth guard, shoulder pads, elbow pads, hockey gloves and pants, athletic supporter, shin pads, hockey pads, jersey and a hockey stick. But if you are the goaltender you will need some different equipment: Goalie helmet (cage required), chest and shoulder protectors, athletic supporter (jock), hockey pants, blocker, gloves, goalie stick, goalie skates and goalie pads.