I love contact sports like ice hockey.  Nothing like seeing that puck fly around.  Do you like hockey?
It's never really a sport I've followed, but I'm interested in learning more about it?
Well, as you might know, it's most popular in Canada and eastern Europe.  The US follow slightly behind them.  It's actually Canada's national sport!  
Wow, I did not know that, see, I've leaned something already! Is it a fairly new sport?
Far from it, it's been around in some form since the 1870's.  Some claim that it began in Montreal.
That's quite something. I wonder what the equipment they used was like back in it's earlier days and how it has evolved.
I know that players really didn't use any sort of face protection until the late 1920's.  That's a lot of missing teeth over the years!
I bet there weren't many who smiled in their team photo's then!