Talk:Shinny

These words:
"Hockey has its roots in a wide variety of similar sports, played long ago in many different countries.

These early versions of hockey had many different names, depending on the country that the player came from. People from England called their version "bandy" or "field hockey", the Irish referred to it as "hurling". To Scots it was "shinty" and to Americans "ice polo". Native Canadians played a game called "baggataway". Canadians called it "shinny"."

...are word-for-word plagiarism from the site linked to directly below them. I'm unaware of Wikipedia conventions in this case. How do we appropriately cite the source? 70.29.58.69 17:04, 7 August 2005 (UTC)

Removed the above
Confusing and Copyright issued, implys that hurling etc where early forms of ice hockey instead of distinct games (Gnevin 19:12, 21 February 2006 (UTC))

Removed unsourced statement
Removed the following statement, citation requested since July 2007: Former Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien famously played an impromptu game of shinny on the Rideau Canal with school children during his time in office.

I tried searching for this incident and came up empty except for mirrors of this article. He probably did do something of the sort, but it seems he did not do so "famously" since it happened during the last 20 years but turns up nothing in a web search. In any case, it doesn't really add anything to the article, nor does taking it out detract from the article. Richigi (talk) 22:09, 16 December 2012 (UTC)

Hoisting
i'm not adding this since i can't provide a citation, but in shinny in eastern ontario in the early 1960's, shooting the puck elevated from the ice (or street) surface was called hoisting. i have heard tv commentators use the term in the same context.Toyokuni3 (talk) 19:11, 6 April 2013 (UTC)

Reverted Native American edit
An unlogged in user made a large edit claiming Shinney was a Native American sport, which led to the creation of Ice Hockey. This seemed pretty hard to prove factual. Ice Hockey is said to have been derived from games played in Europe, such as Shinty and Bandy. I reverted, but please feel free to discuss. If you have actual references, please feel free to provide them and I'm sure the article can incorporate some more Native American info. --Memsom (talk) 21:50, 10 November 2013 (UTC)