Mike Kennedy Format: Paperback Pages: 63 ISBN: 9780531155905 ISBN-10: 0531155900
For much of the 20th century, ice hockey was a game confined largely to the frozen ponds and rivers of rural Canada and played professionally at the highest level in just six northern cities of the eastern United States and Canada. Today, it is an extremely popular amateur and professional sport throughout all of North America, Scandinavia, and central and eastern Europe, especially in Czechoslovakia and Russia. It is also one of the most fiercely competed and popular Olympic sports. This short but informative history provides the how, where, what, and why of ice hockey's development.