sentences:  The McGill Rules were first published on 27 February 1877 in the Montreal newspaper, "The Gazette".It was essentially the same set of rules to the already established game of field hockey and even continued to use the word within the set of rules for ice hockey.One of the defining characteristics of the game of ice hockey at the time of the first Australian game was that it used a puck instead of a ball, this distinguished it from similar stick and ball games at the time such as bandy.