<P> A hockey puck is a disk made of vulcanized rubber that serves the same functions in various games as a ball does in ball games . The best - known use of pucks is in ice hockey, a major international sport . </P> <P> Ice hockey and its various precursor games utilized balls until the late 19th century . By the 1870s, flat pucks were made of wood as well as rubber . At first, pucks were square . The first recorded organized game of ice hockey used a wooden puck, to prevent it from leaving the rink of play . Rubber pucks were first made by slicing a rubber ball, then trimming the disc square . The Victoria Hockey Club of Montreal is credited with making and using the first round pucks, in the 1880s . </P> <P> Many indigenous persons throughout North America played a version of field hockey which involved some type of "puck" or ball, and curved wooden sticks . It was first observed by Europeans being played by Mi'kmaqs in Nova Scotia in the late 17th century . It was called "ricket" by the Mi'kmaqs . The game was played utilizing a frozen road apple as the first puck . Eventually, they began to carve pucks from cherrywood, which was the puck of preference until late in the century when rubber imported by Euro - Americans replaced the wood . </P>

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