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Unknown Author (top)
Street hockey is great for kids. It's energetic, competitive, and skilful. And best of all it keeps them off the street.
- Unknown Author


Jimmy Cannon (top)
A puck is a hard rubber disc that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.
- Jimmy Cannon


Wayne Gretzky (top)
Some people skate to the puck. I skate to where the puck is going to be.
- Wayne Gretzky


Doug Larson (top)
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
- Doug Larson


Stephen Butler Leacock (top)
Hockey captures the essence of Canadian experience in the New World. In a land so inescapably and inhospitably cold, hockey is the chance of life, and an affirmation that despite the deathly chill of winter we are alive.
- Stephen Butler Leacock


Jim Murray (top)
Hockey is murder on ice.
- Jim Murray


Steve Rushin (top)
By the age of 18, the average American has witnessed 200,000 acts of violence on television, most of them occurring during Game 1 of the NHL playoff series.
- Steve Rushin
Hockey belongs to the Cartoon Network, where a person can be pancaked by an ACME anvil, then expanded - accordion-style - back to full stature, without any lasting side effect.
- Steve Rushin