Ice hockey is one of the most action-paced of
sports, demanding skillful skating, expert stick-handling, and masterly puck
control.
The game developed in the frozen expanses of
North America, and a hundred years ago became the national winter sport of
Canada. It also became very popular in the northern states of the United
States, and later spread to Europe, Japan, and even to Australia.
The game probably arose from boys playing on
the ice. The kids probably fashioned pucks from frozen "horse apples"
and adapted tree branches as hockey sticks, and played on cleared stretches of
frozen lakes and rivers, and backyard rinks.
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