Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Wasan wasan hockey na zamani ya samo asali ne a Kanada, musamman a Montreal, inda aka buga wasan farko a cikin gida a ranar 3 ga Maris, 1875. Wasu fasalolin wannan wasan, kamar tsawon filin wasan ƙanƙara da kuma yin amfani da ƙwallo, sun kasance har wa yau. Ƙungiyoyin wasan hockey na kankara sun fara ne a cikin shekarun 1880, kuma wasan hockey na kankara ya samo asali ne a kusa da 1900. Stanley Cup, alama ce ta fifikon kulob din wasan hockey na kankara, an fara bayar da ita a 1893 don girmama zakaran 'yan wasan Kanada kuma daga baya ya zama kofin zakarun na NHL. A farkon 1900s, Ligue Internationale de Hockey Sur Glace, wanda ya riga IIHF, ya karɓi dokokin Kanada, kuma an buga wasan ne a karon farko a wasannin Olympics a lokacin Wasannin Olympics na 1920. Duk da cewa mata sun taka leda tun farkon wasan, wasan hockey na mata ba a shirya shi ba har sai daga baya, gasar zakarun duniya ta mata ta IIHF ta farko.
da aka gudanar a 1990 kuma aka gabatar da shi a gasar Olympics a 1998.