My number one nominee for the quirkiest sport is......Cricket!! quirky name, quirky rules, really really quirky outfits (I can bring myself to call them uniforms)

Since Ice Hockey was first played on the St. Lawrence river, albeit by a British garrison. We Canadians choose to continue to claim it as our game. I think that common usage and venacular is a better way to choose names. One of the smarter things you Brits did was NOT subject the language to strict, arbitrary definition like the French did. It is a major reason that English is the de facto international language that French has only aspired to be.