Sep 05, 2013 | Bill Thomas | 422 views
Sisters are Playing Hockey - Here's the Numbers....
In 1995-96, there were 19,050 females playing minor hockey in Canada, according to the International Ice Hockey Federation's registration survey. That number jumped to 37,748 after the first women's Olympic hockey tournament in Japan in 1998. Then four years later after Canada won its first Olympic gold medal in Salt Lake City, Utah, the number jumped to 73,791, and increased to 86,675 in 2011-12.