Editing Hockey puck (section)

===History===
====The first hockey pucks====
The first hockey pucks<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-30 |title=What is a Hockey Puck made of? (Explained) {{!}} Histoky |url=https://histoky.com/what-is-a-hockey-puck-made-of/ |access-date=2022-05-10 |language=en |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524092938/https://histoky.com/what-is-a-hockey-puck-made-of/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> were made from frozen cow dung and leather liver pads. These early pucks had a lifespan of about one game before they were too soft or too hard for playability, so they were replaced with wooden ones.

====Ball games on ice====
The sport of [[bandy]], prior to its first official organization in [[United Kingdom|Britain]], had its informal variants spread to North America where they and game concepts from [[lacrosse]], [[shinty]] and [[hurling]] served as precursors in some format to ice hockey. These informal games utilized various types of balls while being played on ice until the latter half of 19th century Canada, after which the game of ice hockey and the ice hockey puck began to take their official shape and form.

====Shape and material====
By the 1870s, flat pucks were made of wood as well as rubber. Records from the [[first indoor ice hockey game]] (1875) used a wooden puck, to prevent it from leaving the area of play<ref>{{cite book |title=Hockey: A People's History |last=McKinley |first=Michael |publisher=McClelland & Stewart |date=2006 |isbn=978-0-7710-5769-4 |location=Toronto |page=[https://archive.org/details/hockeypeopleshis0000mcki/page/9 9] |url-access=registration |url= https://archive.org/details/hockeypeopleshis0000mcki/page/9}}</ref> though new evidence has shown that cuts from large corks have also been used.{{citation needed|date=November 2021}}

At first, pucks (of either material) were made in the shape of a square. Rubber pucks were first made by slicing a rubber ball, then trimming the disk square. The original puck used first in the first organized games in Kingston on March 10, 1886 (on display at the [[Original Hockey Hall of Fame]]), was made from a cut-down lacrosse ball. It looks like a lump of coal, is made from soft rubber, and bounces far more than a modern hockey puck.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Historic Hockey: A History Lesson on Ice |url= http://www.originalhockeyhalloffame.com/news-events/historic.html |access-date=2023-02-22 |website=OriginalHockeyHallOfFame.com}}</ref>

The [[Montreal Victorias|Victoria Hockey Club]] of Montreal is credited with making and using the first round pucks, in the 1880s.<ref>{{cite news |work=The Gazette |location=Montreal |title=McGill Man Tells of How First Rules for Hockey Were Written |date=December 17, 1936 |page=17 |url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=0b0tAAAAIBAJ&dq=1883%20montreal%20winter%20carnival&pg=5799%2C2185856}}</ref>