Getting started.Know the costs. Goalie equipment can be expensive, A good pair of skates can cost $150 to $400; padding, a mask, and stick can bring the total cost to $3,000 for a child and $4,000 for an adult. Do some reading. Cecil Harris' Breaking the Ice: The Black Experience in Professional Hockey (National Book Network; $22.95) chronicles how black hockey players have overcome racial prejudices to succeed in the sport. Don't feel intimidated. African Americans' relationship with ice hockey ice hockey: see hockey, ice. ice hockey Game played on an ice rink by two teams of six players on skates. The object is to drive a puck (a small, hard rubber disk) into the opponents' goal with a hockey stick, thus scoring one point. has been frosty frost·y adj. frost·i·er, frost·i·est 1. Producing or characterized by frost; freezing. See Synonyms at cold. 2. Covered with or as if with frost. 3. Silvery white; hoary. 4. . Harris notes several deterrents: lack of access to rinks, expensive gear, as well as peer pressure. There are signs, however, of a thaw. The NHL NHL Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, see there has a diversity task force that helps fund programs, such as Ice Hockey in Harlem. Douglas has noticed more African Americans African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. attending NHL games. There are also more black athletes on the ice. Seventeen of the NHL's players are black. |
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