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Remarks: McKinley, Michael; Putting a Roof on Winter: Hockey's Rise from Sport to Spectacle; 11; Brand New Book, Hardcover, clean, tight, unmarked, very first edition, 6 1/2' x 9 1/4', b&w illustrations, indexed, 280 pages. .. On a chill March evening in 1875, a handful of friends gathered at the Victoria Skating Rink in downtown Montreal to play the very first indoor hockey game. What they did that night would change the course of hockey history. By moving the game from frozen ponds to covered arenas they forever defined hockey as a spectacle, elevating it from simple sport to become the passion of a nation.; Greystone Books; 2000