Rink time, gear is less expensive for inline hockey than ice version

From: The Boston Globe | Date: October 4, 1998| Author: Paul E. Kandarian, Globe Correspondent | Copyright information

HINGHAM -- Hockey's popularity in the region is taking a new turn -- on wheels.

Inline hockey is becoming immensely popular both with people who already play ice hockey and those who've never touched blade to ice in their lives, players and organizers say.

Where once street hockey ruled the neighborhoods, a game played in sneakers, there now looms the inline version, played in organized indoor leagues with a hard plastic ball instead of a puck and on footwear that boasts four w...

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