Started getting into watch hockey lately. I'm loving ice hockey so far! But what people don't realize is there's field hockey and bandy, too.
I know a little more about field hockey than ice hockey. I'll watch either but not really a fan.
Yeah, that makes sense. Ice hockey is really popular in places like Canada, Russia, Scandinavia, even Eastern Europe, so I can understand that.
I wonder why it hasn't caught on in the U.S. like those other countries. Do you know a lot about ice hockey in general?
Ice hockey
Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points. The sport is known to be fast-paced and physical, with teams usually consisting of six players each: one goaltender, and five players who skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team.
Ice hockey is most popular in Canada,
best known for his work in developing the USSR's ice hockey program.
Ice hockey builder.
After World War II, Tarasov was asked to put together a hockey program from scratch. He helped found a hockey department at the Red Army's sports club, CSKA Moscow with little more than several old hockey rulebooks. Before then, the most popular ice sport in Russia and the Soviet Union was bandy, a sport similar to field hockey, but played on ice. The Russian style of hockey, with its emphasis