I have always thought about getting into ice hockey.
It's a tough activity. It's a contact sport played on ice and ice skates where players try to use sticks to get a rubber puck into each others goals.
It sounds fun. Do people all over the world play ice hockey?
Yes, they do. It's most popular in Eastern Europe, Canada, Scandinaia, the U.S. and Russia.
What is the professional ice hockey league in the US and Canada?
It's called the NHL or National Hockey Leaggue and it has 31 teams.
I didnt realize there were that many teams. I live where its hot. Is ice hockey in the Olympics?
Ice hockey at the Olympic Games
Ice hockey tournaments have been staged at the Olympic Games since 1920. The men's tournament was introduced at the 1920 Summer Olympics and was transferred permanently to the Winter Olympic Games program in 1924, in France. The women's tournament was first held at the 1998 Winter Olympics.
The Olympic Games were originally intended for amateur athletes. However, the advent of the state-sponsored "full-time amateur athlete" of the Eastern Bloc countries further eroded the ideology of the pure amateur
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,