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Henrik Sedin
Henrik Sedin, Swedish centre born 1980, Vancouver Canucks franchise leader in points (1,070) and assists (830); 2009-10 Art Ross and Hart winner, 2006 Olympic gold, 2022 Hockey Hall of Fame inductee, now Canucks Co-President of Hockey Operations.
Henrik Zetterberg
Henrik Zetterberg, Swedish forward (born 1980, Njurunda), Detroit Red Wings 2002-18, 210th pick in 1999. 2008 Stanley Cup and Conn Smythe, Triple Gold Club, captain 2013-18, 960 points, retired 2018 on back injury.
Herb Brooks
Herb Brooks (Herbert Paul Brooks, 1937-2003), American hockey coach of the 1980 "Miracle on Ice" U.S. Olympic gold medal team; also coached Minnesota to three NCAA titles and the 2002 Olympic silver medalists.
Herbert Wilson
Herbert Haydon Wilson (1875–1917), British polo player and Royal Horse Guards captain; won 1908 London Olympic polo gold with Roehampton Club, killed in action near Arras, Ypres.
Hershey Bears
The Hershey Bears, also known as the Hershey B'ars (1932-1938), are the AHL's oldest franchise, based in Hershey, Pennsylvania, holding a league-record 13 Calder Cups and affiliated with the Washington Capitals since 2005.
Hilary Knight
Hilary Knight (Hilary Atwood Knight, born 1989) is an American ice hockey forward, five-time Olympian and two-time gold medalist, record 10-time IIHF world champion holding Women's World Championship records of 67 goals, 53 assists, and 120 points.
Hilliard Lyle
Hilliard Lyle (1879-1931), Canadian lacrosse player with the Winnipeg Shamrocks; won gold at the 1904 St. Louis Olympics, served as a colonel in France in World War I, later ran a store in Beaverlodge, Alberta.
Himari Suzuki
Himari Suzuki (鈴木日毬, born 2004) is a Japanese ice hockey defenseman for Kawasemi Daishin Ladies who won gold with Japan in girls' ice hockey at the 2020 Lausanne Winter Youth Olympics; distinct from a same-named 800m runner born 2010.
Hina Shimomukai
Hina Shimomukai (下向 雛), Japanese ice hockey forward born 2004; won gold at Lausanne 2020 Youth Olympics with a semi-final hat trick, later committed to the University of Vermont.
History of ice hockey
History of ice hockey: from the first recorded indoor game at Montreal's Victoria Skating Rink on March 3, 1875, organized by James Creighton, through the 1908 founding of the IIHF, the 1920 Antwerp Olympics, the NHL, and the modern global game.
History of lacrosse
History of lacrosse: Indigenous North American medicine game (Baggataway, Tewaarathon), codified by George Beers in 1867, Canada's national summer sport, Olympic in 1904, 1908, and LA 2028 sixes.
Hockey
Hockey: family of stick-and-goal team sports, chiefly field hockey (FIH) and ice hockey (IIHF), plus bandy, floorball, and street variants; origins contested between Canada, England, and French etymology.
Hockey 5s
Hockey5s (Hockey 5s) is the FIH's official five-a-side short format of field hockey, four field players plus a goalkeeper on a board-surrounded 40m x 23.7m court; debuted at Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympics, first World Cup in Oman 2024, goals scored from the attacking half.
Hockey East
Hockey East (Hockey East Association) is a NCAA Division I men's and women's ice hockey conference founded July 11, 1983, playing since 1984-85. Twelve men's programs, ten women's programs, ten men's NCAA titles, Lamoriello and Bertagna trophies.
Hockey Hall of Fame
Hockey Hall of Fame, Toronto museum and honorary institution (est. 1943, at Brookfield Place since 1993) honoring ice hockey players, builders, and officials; home of the Stanley Cup and the world's largest hockey collection.
Hockey Night in Canada
Hockey Night in Canada, often abbreviated HNIC, is a Canadian television program that has broadcast NHL games on Saturday nights since 1952, a national viewing ritual.
Hockey puck
Hockey puck: the vulcanized rubber disc of ice hockey, 3 in (7.6 cm) diameter, 1 in (2.5 cm) thick, 156–170 g, kept frozen for games; modern design dates to the early 1940s; now also built with tracking chips.
Hollie Webb Pearne
Hollie Webb Pearne (Hollie Pearne-Webb), English field hockey defender born 1990 in Belper; Rio 2016 Olympic gold via decisive shootout goal, Tokyo 2020 bronze as GB captain, Paris 2024 quarter-finalist, 274 caps, retired 2025.
Hooley Smith
Reginald Joseph "Hooley" Smith, Canadian ice hockey forward (born Toronto; birth year 1903 or 1905; died 1963): 1924 Olympic gold with the Toronto Granites, Stanley Cups 1927 and 1935, Hockey Hall of Fame 1972.
Huck Woodman
Huck Woodman (Allan Charles Woodman, 1899-1963), Canadian ice hockey rover with the Winnipeg Falcons; only non-Icelandic member of the team that won the first Olympic hockey gold at Antwerp 1920, after the 1920 Allan Cup.
Hugh Plaxton
Hugh John Plaxton (1904-1982), Canadian ice hockey left winger; won 1928 St. Moritz Olympic gold with Canada (12 goals in 3 games), later Liberal MP for Toronto Trinity 1935-1940 and lawyer.
Hugh Sutherland
Hugh Robert Sutherland (1907-1990), Canadian ice hockey defenseman with the Winnipeg Hockey Club's Winnipegs; 1931 Allan Cup winner and 1932 Lake Placid Olympic gold medalist, distinct from other athletes named Hugh Sutherland.
Humboldt Broncos
Humboldt Broncos, SJHL junior A hockey team in Humboldt, Saskatchewan, founded 1970; ten league titles and RBC Cups in 2003 and 2008; known worldwide for the April 6, 2018 bus crash that killed 16.
Hurling
Hurling (iománaíocht), Irish field game with hurley and sliotar, 15 players, women's form camogie; codified by GAA 1884, UNESCO heritage 2018, helmets mandatory since 2010.
Ian Taylor
Ian Charles Boucher Taylor, born 1954 in Bromsgrove, is an English field hockey goalkeeper who won Olympic bronze (1984) and gold (1988) with Great Britain, earned a record 80 GB caps, and later led SportScotland.
Ice hockey
Ice hockey is a team game on skates in which two sides use sticks to shoot a rubber puck into the opposing net, first organized in Montreal in 1875.
Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics
The men's ice hockey tournament at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, won by the United States and famous for the "Miracle on Ice".
Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament
Ice hockey at the 2010 Winter Olympics men's tournament, Vancouver 2010 Olympic men's hockey: 12-team IIHF event on NHL-sized ice; Canada beat USA 3-2 in overtime on Sidney Crosby's golden goal for Canada's 8th men's gold.
Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's tournament
Ice hockey at the 2014 Winter Olympics men's tournament (Sochi): 12 teams, 12–23 February 2014, Bolshoy Ice Dome and Shayba Arena; Canada beat Sweden 3–0 for gold, Finland took bronze, last NHL-player Olympics until 2026.
Ice hockey at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Ice hockey at PyeongChang 2018: first men's Olympic tournament without NHL players since 1994; OAR won men's gold on Kirill Kaprizov's OT goal, Germany took silver, US women beat Canada in a shootout for gold.