There are 30 women’s hockey teams on Hokkaido, but only a half dozen play at a decent skill level. Sakuma, 25, followed her older brother, Teppei, into hockey in Houston, where there are two ...

I have played some form of hockey since I was four years old, and every winter my dad would take me to Canadian Tire to grab a wooden hockey stick. When I finally picked one, every year he would ...

Hockey sticks used to come 'one size fits all.' If players wanted a better fit, it required lots of do-it-yourself, cutting, sanding, heating and bending the stick into a shape and size that fit them.

4 / 6: Former UMD hockey player Bob Bell, talks about how he crafts the handle for a walking cane created out of an old hockey sticks. (Clint Austin / [email protected]) ...

A version of this article appears in print on Feb. 21, 2010, Section SP, Page 7 of the New York edition with the headline: Potter Adept at Handling Hockey Stick, and Children.