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The game of hockey has been around for a long time. It is unknown when and where the game originated from, but we do know how it got started. The game has grown and changed over the years, and is now played all over the world. It has become one of the most popular winter sports on earth. Most people believe that hockey began northern Europe, specifically Great Britain and France, where field hockey was a popular summer sport more than five hundred years ago. During the winter when the lakes and ponds became frozen, many of the athletes playing field hockey took the game to the ice. The ice game known as kolven was popular in Holland in the seventeenth century and the game became really popular i