South Broadview wins draw!

South Broadview Elementary was the lucky draw winner and will have the coveted “VIP” seats at the Hometown Hockey Assembly on March 6 at Shuswap Middle School.

School District 83 elementary and middle school students took part in a numeracy challenge all based around hockey! The challenge, organized by school district staff in celebration of Salmon Arm being selected as Rogers Hometown Hockey City, ran until February 7. Over 7,000 math problems were tackled and solved!

Each correct answer during the six weeks of math problems put an entry for that student’s school in a draw, which was made on February 12 at the Salmon Arm Silverbacks game.

Want to test your hand at some of the hockey math? Here is a sample of some of the questions!

Kindergarten/Early primary

1. The Salmon Arm Novice Silverbacks hockey team is playing against Enderby Novice Knights. So far, Salmon Arm has taken 18 shots on the goalie from Enderby. They have scored 3 goals. How many saves has the Enderby goalie made?

2. Mark was playing hockey on the Enderby Super Star team. Each time he played a shift, he was on the ice for 2 minutes. If Mark played 6 shifts, how many minutes was he on the ice for in total?

3. There are 6 defencemen, 9 forwards and 1 goalie on the Armstrong Novice White Knights hockey team. How many players are on the team?

4. There are 14 players on the Sicamous Eagles hockey team. Each player brought 5 pucks out onto the ice for shooting practice. How many pucks were on the ice?

Primary

1. A hockey game is usually 3 periods long. Each period is 20 minutes long and they take a five minute break between periods. How long does it take to complete the hockey game?

2. At the end of the game, the Salmon Arm Silverbacks had taken 82 shots on the Vernon Vipers goalie. The final score was Silverbacks 6 and Vipers 3. How many saves did the Vernon Vipers goalie make?

3. At the final Silverbacks game in January, there were 532 children’s tickets sold and 249 adult tickets sold. How many tickets were sold for the game?

4. The leading goal scorer of all time in the NHL is Wayne Gretzky, with 894 points. Connor McDavid is the scoring leader this season. He has scored 155 goals in his career. How many goals does Connor need to get to be tied with Wayne Gretzky?

Intermediate

1. At the NHL All Star Skills competition last week, Quinn Hughes from the Vancouver Canucks had a time of 14.263 seconds in the fastest skater competition. This event was won by Mathew Barzal in a time of 13.175 s. How much faster was Mathew than Quinn?

2. Elias Pettersson (Vancouver Canucks) has taken 127 shots on goal in games this season. He has scored 21 goals. What is his shooting percentage? (How many of his shots actually scored – as a %)

3. A Zamboni travels approximately 1200 metres each time it does one complete ice clean. The ice is cleaned before and after each game, as well as between the 1st and 2nd period, and the 2nd and 3rd period. If there are 3 games at the Shaw Centre this weekend, how many km will the Zamboni travel?

4. The Salmon Arm Junior Silverbacks are hosting a tournament this weekend and you have to prepare lunches for the first day. There are 8 teams in the tournament and each team has 18 people including players and coaches. How many lunches will you need for Saturday?

Middle/Secondary

1. At the 2020 NHL All Stars Skills competition, Shea Weber won the hardest shot competition with his shot registering 106.5 miles per hour. How fast is that in km per hour? **you might want to have students look up the conversion, or give them 1 mile = 1.6 km

2. It takes a Zamboni approximately 12 minutes to resurface the ice. The Zamboni travels 115 km in total when it resurfaces the ice. What is the average speed of the Zamboni during the resurfacing?

3. Jacob Markstrom is the star goalie for the Vancouver Canucks. He has faced 1,081 shots during games so far this season, and has allowed only 91 goals. What is Markstrom’s save percentage? (percent of the shots that he saves)

4. Connor McDavid is the NHL current scoring leader. He has scored 76 points in 49 games. If he continues on the same scoring pace, predict the number of points McDavid will have at the end of the 82 game season.

Interested in attending some of the Rogers Hometown Hockey events? Public activities run from noon until 6 p.m. on March 7 and from 11 a.m. until the end of the outdoor viewing party on March 8 (including a Parade of Champions at 3 p.m.).