Bauer

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Auston Matthews

Auston Matthews (born September 17, 1997) is an American ice hockey center. He is currently playing for the ZSC Lions of the Swiss National League A (NLA). Previously, Matthews played for the U.S. National U18 Team in the USHL. Matthews is widely considered the #1 prospect of the 2016 NHL Entry Draft.

Born in San Francisco, California, Matthews and his family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona when Matthews was an infant. It was here where Matthews learned to play hockey, developing an interest after watching the hometown Phoenix Coyotes play. Internationally, Matthews has represented the United States in numerous tournaments including a U17 WHC Gold Medal, two U18 WJC Gold Medals, and a IIHF World U20 Championship appearance.

Early life

Matthews was born in the San Francisco Bay Area to Brian, from California, and Ema, originally from Mexico. The family moved to Scottsdale, Arizona when Auston was two months old. Matthews began attending Phoenix Coyotes games when he was two years old, and his favorite players were Shane Doan and Daniel Brière. Matthews first expressed a desire to play hockey shortly after his sixth birthday, and began playing with the Arizona Bobcats minor hockey program. When Matthews was younger, he played both hockey and baseball. According to his father, baseball was his best sport, but his true passion was hockey.

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Bauer Hockey

Bauer Hockey (renamed Nike Bauer from 2005 to 2009) is one of the leading manufacturers of ice hockey equipment, fitness and recreational skates and apparel. Bauer produces helmets, gloves, sticks, skates, shin guards, pants, shoulder pads, elbow pads, as well as goalie equipment. Bauer primarily developed and manufactured hockey skates prior to 1990, when it acquired the hockey assets of Cooper Canada Ltd. Bauer operates as a unit of Performance Sports Group Ltd. of Exeter, New Hampshire.

History

In 1927, the Freibauer family, owners of Western Shoe Company, established the Bauer company as it is known today in Kitchener, Ontario.

Bauer was the first hockey company to begin producing hockey skates in which the blade was permanently secured to the boot. The boot was made by Bauer and the skate blade by the now-defunct Starr Manufacturing Company in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. This innovation was originally marketed under the trade name "Bauer Supreme".

The arrival of the George Tackaberry boot, made by CCM under the "Tacks" trademark (the Tackaberry name having been acquired by CCM in 1937) saw a shift in the balance of power. The Tackaberry boot with CCM Pro-Lite blade would be worn by all NHL scoring champions from 1939 through 1969. The "Tacks" series of CCM skates would later be retired by Reebok in 2006.

Hockey

Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick. In many areas, one sport (typically field hockey or ice hockey) is generally referred to simply as hockey.

Etymology

The first recorded use of the word hockey is in the 1773 book Juvenile Sports and Pastimes, to Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Author: Including a New Mode of Infant Education by Richard Johnson (Pseud. Master Michel Angelo), whose chapter XI was titled "New Improvements on the Game of Hockey". The belief that hockey was mentioned in a 1363 proclamation by King Edward III of England is based on modern translations of the proclamation, which was originally in Latin and explicitly forbade the games "Pilam Manualem, Pedivam, & Bacularem: & ad Canibucam & Gallorum Pugnam". The English historian and biographer John Strype did not use the word "hockey" when he translated the proclamation in 1720.

The word hockey itself is of unknown origin. One explanation is that it is a derivative of hoquet, a Middle French word for a shepherd's stave. The curved, or "hooked" ends of the sticks used for hockey would indeed have resembled these staves. Another explanation is that the cork bungs that replaced wooden balls in the 18th century came from barrels containing "hock" ale, also called "hocky".