Geography Fun for Hockey Fans

My husband and I were both born and raised in Canada. The small region I was born in has a proud and abiding hockey heritage, but that is essentially true of all of Canada to some degree or another. Each year we watch the hockey season as best we can, relying on news from NHL.com and the team sites to a large degree because Southern CA is not the cradle of hockey we are accustomed to.

For those of you not in the know, the trophy that the teams play for each year is the Stanley Cup, and it is the only sports trophy that tours the world each summer with members of the winning team as each player, coach, scout etc takes their special day with the cup. Most of the guys take the cups to where they grew up and it is a family celebration. The cup is often the proud holder of babies and breakfast...not at the same time.

Each year the Hockey Hall of Fame chronicles the adventures of the cup, and this year the adventures will be posted here. (If you want to read about previous years you can find them here).

Although it does not look like they plan on including the travels of the cup before it starts to travel with the players. To include that you would need to add at the beginning:

1. The Cup lives at the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto ON Canada when it is not traveling (and it travels a lot!)
2. The cup was in Pittsburgh for game 6, but the series went the full 7 games.
3. The cup was won in Detroit by the Pittsburgh Penguins
4. The cup then went back to Pittsburgh for the team celebrations, including the victory parade.
5. The cup was in Las Vegas for the NHL awards
6. The cup was in Montreal, Quebec, Canada for the Draft.
   

So this year with a North America and World map on the wall (the kind you can write on with dry erase markers), some hockey stickers, and some dry erase pens (and probably an atlas for greater detail to find those small hockey towns) we will be following the path the cup takes around the world and reading the accounts that will be posted Tuesdays and Fridays. The journal accounts require very little editing as the HHOF and NHL try to maintain a family friendly atmosphere. So this is a fun activity that we think Miss Pear will enjoy, after all, she loves hockey and maps!

This is also an inexpensive activity as we already have the maps, the stickers, the pens, and the internet connections!

What other unusual activities do you have planned for the summer?