Ice hockey

Ice Hockey (as opposed to field hockey and street hockey), is a team sport played on an ice rink. The object of the game is to get a puck into the opposing team's goal (a small net). The game consists of three periods of twenty minutes each. In case of tie, there is a "sudden death" overtime period or a series of "shootouts".[1] Each team consists of six players; three "forwards," two "defensemen" and a "goalie."

Ice hockey is perhaps the most liberal sport commonly played in the United States. Of the twenty-four American teams in the National Hockey League, nineteen are located in cities that voted for Barack Hussein Obama in the 2008 presidential election. Six NHL teams play their home games in Canada, a notoriously liberal country. Only five NHL teams are from cities in red states. A large percentage of NHL players come from Canada, and many prominent Democrats attend professional ice hockey games. New Jersey's professional team, the New Jersey Devils, has a name that seems to openly support Satanism.

The sport is popular in Canada, North America's most liberal nation, as well as in some Northern and Eastern European Countries (notably Sweden, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Russia and Finland) and many parts of the United States (notably the northern midwest and the East Coast region).

The top professional league in North America is the National Hockey League (NHL), and the league championship trophy is called the Stanley Cup. The Stanley Cup is the oldest professional sports trophy in North America, and may be a sacred object in Pagan rituals. The Montréal Canadiens have won the Stanley Cup 23 times, the most of any team in the league.

See also Canadian sports

Further reading

• Boyd, Bill. All Roads Lead to Hockey: Reports from Northern Canada to the Mexican Border. (2006). 240 pp
• Dryden, Ken. "Soul on Ice: A Century of Canadian Hockey." Beaver(Dec 2000/Jan 2001), Vol. 80, Issue 6 in EBSCO
• Dryden, Ken, and Roy MacGregor. Home Game: Hockey and Life in Canada (1989)
• Gruneau, Richard. Hockey night in Canada: Sport, identities and cultural politics, (1993)
• Hollan, Andrew C., 'Playing in the Neutral Zone: Meanings and uses of ice hockey in the Canada-U.S. Borderlands, 1895-1915', American Review Of Canadian Studies, 2004, 34(1).
• Hughes-Fuller, Helen Patricia. "The Good Old Game: Hockey, Nostalgia, Identity." PhD dissertation U. of Alberta 2002. 258 pp. DAI 2004 64(7): 2496-A. DANQ81202 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses
• Moore, Mark. Saving the Game: Pro Hockey's Quest to Raise its Game from Crisis to New Heights. (2nd ed. 2006). 420 pp.
• Morrow, Don, and Kevin Wamsley. Sport in Canada: A History. (2005). 318 pp. ISBN 978-0-19- 541996-2. online review
• Stubbs, Dave, and Neal Portnoy. Our Game: The History of Hockey in Canada (2006) excerpt and text search
• Wong, John Chi-Kit. "The Development of Professional Hockey and the Making of the National Hockey League." PhD dissertation U. of Maryland, College Park 2001. 432 pp. DAI 2002 62(9): 3152-A. DA3024988 Fulltext: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses