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Hockey Growing Worldwide

09/17/2014 at 11:21am EDT

from Martin Merk of IIHF.com,

The number of registered ice hockey players has grown to 1,779,911 according to the International Ice Hockey Federation’s annual Survey of Players that includes 68 countries.

That’s an increase of 8.47 per cent compared to last year. There have been more players in all categories – male, female and junior players.

The number-one country remains hockey motherland Canada followed by the United States, the Czech Republic, Russia, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and France who complete the top-10.

But the data also offers other interesting angles. Who would have thought that Latvia has the sixth-highest number of players per capita and that Iceland is ninth before tenth-ranked USA?

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