The fastest of all team sports, ice hockey has been described as a combination of "blood, sweat, and beauty." Stiffer penalties have not discouraged the players from using their basic equipment of sticks and skates as weapons, and this brutality has diminished the abstract beauty of the sport. Even though the game consists of a lot of fighting it is still the greatest sport ever made. Even without the violence, ice hockey is a rugged game that demands strong conditioned athletes. More than any other team sport, ice hockey is a game of motion: even when the action is whistled to a stop, the momentum keeps flowing. The basic plays of the game are repeated, but the players are never able to skate in quite the same patterns and the sequences of their moves keep changing. The sport of ice hockey came from the games played on makeshift ice skates in Northern Europe during the Middle Age....

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