Origin of Ice Hockey

When it was first published in 1984, The Hockey Compendium changed the way fans watched, talked about, and understood the game of hockey. In that revolutionary book, Jeff Klein and Karl-Eric Reif introduced completely new statistical catagories and methods, affording readers (and the NHL) original insight into both team and individual on-ice performance. With so many new expansion franchises in the NHL, fans now rely more than ever on accurate and thorough statistics to assess team and player performance. In this completely new version of the original book, the authors answer that need. Rather than giving readers data, The All New Hockey Compendium is about providing hockey afficionados with commentary, context, and original analysis. They transform raw numbers into insight. Among the questions posed and answered: -- What was the best NHL team of all time? -- Which player had the best season ever? -- How would players of today compare to the greats of years gone by? -- Who's the dirtiest player in the history of the game? The All New Hockey Compendium brings these and other issues up to date and introduces a host of new ones. Klein and Reif look at the game the same way any die-hard hockey nut looks at it, except that the authors use science, not mere opinion, to determine the outcome.

In this collection of lyrical essays, writer Jack Falla's backyard hockey rink unexpectedly becomes a vital bridge to family and friends, a lens through which he looks at his life in a game he loves, a road leading back to the frozen ponds of a New England childhood and a mirror in which he stares down middle age. Or tries to. Essays in "Home Ice" range from a thoughtful, sometimes humorous account of Falla's original attempts to build a rink - 'The first law of Hydrodynamics as applied to rink owners: water seeking its own level fits in in your neighbor's yard'- to a meeting with the world's most famous backyard rink builder, Walter Gretzky, Wayne's father. In other essays Falla skates with the ultimate pond skaters -hockey legends Wayne Gretzky and Paul Coffey, travels to Duluth, Minnesota and Thunder Bay, Ontario to visit backyard rink builders, reflects on the death of a parent, the meaning of an early-morning skate with a grandchild, the connection between his 60-by-35 foot backyard rink and the magical Boston Garden, and the life lessons learned shoveling, resurfacing and skating with his wife, son, and daughter. A bonus chapter explains how to build your own backyard rink. "Home Ice" goes beyond being a sports book. It is a book for readers more interested in family, friends, and relationships than in last night's hockey scores.

Ice hockey rules - The majority of ice hockey around the world is played under the umbrella of three organizations, Hockey Canada, USA Hockey, and the International Ice Hockey Federation, each with their own set of rules. Hockey Canada and USA Hockey rulebooks are used in most amateur hockey in North America, and the IIHF rulebook is used in both amateur and professional hockey in the rest of the world.

English Premier Ice Hockey League - The English Premier Ice Hockey League commonly abbreviated to EPIHL, is a senior Ice Hockey league in England, and is run and administered by the English Ice Hockey Association. The league currently consists of thirteen teams, and is generally considered to be the second tier league below the Elite Ice Hockey League although there is no promotion or relegation between the two.

Australian Ice Hockey League - The Australian Ice Hockey League (AIHL) is Australia's top-level ice hockey league. It is sanctioned and governed by Ice Hockey Australia (a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation).

Ice Hockey Federation of Israel - Ice hockey began in Israel when the first ice rink opened in Kiryat Motzkin (north of Haifa) in 1986. The Israel Ice Hockey and Figure Skating Association was formed in 1988 and was admitted to the International Ice Hockey Federation in 1991.

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