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| | History of Ice Hockey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26) |
 | | The continent's first ice hockey league was started in Kingston, Ontario, in 1885, and it had four teams. |
 | | Known as the International Pro Hockey League, it was based in the Michigan's Upper Peninsula.That folded in 1907, but then an even bigger league emerged three years later, the National Hockey Association (NHA). |
 | | The League passed a rule prior to the start of the 1979-80 season decreeing that anyone who came into the NHL from that point on had to wear a helmet. |
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