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Ice Hockey
Ice hockey is a team sport
played on ice.
It's a fastpaced and physical
sport. Ice hockey is a most
popular in areas that are
sufficiently cold for natural
reliable seasonal ice cover
such as Canada, the
northern United States,
Scandinavia and Russia.
History
European immigrants brought various versions of hockey:
like games to Canada, such as the Irish sport of hurling,
the closely related Scottish sport of shinty, and versions of
field hockey played in England.
Where necessary, these seem to have been adapted for
icy conditions; for example, a colonial Williamsburg
newspaper records hockey being played in a snow storm
in Virginia. Early paintings show "shinney", an early form
of hockey with no standard rules, being played in Nova
Scotia in Canada.
NHL
The National Hockey League (NHL) is a professional ice
hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America.
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