Post #288527 by freddiefreelance on Tue, Feb 27, 2007 1:23 PM

From Wikipedia:

There are early representations and reports of hockey-type games being played on ice in the Netherlands, and reports from Canada from the beginning of the nineteenth century, but the modern game was initially organized by students at McGill University, Montreal in 1875 and, by two years later, codified the first set of ice hockey rules and organized the first teams.