11.   Gordie Howe will make another attempt at becoming the first hockey player to play professionally in six consecutive decades, according to a published report.

12.   Gordie Howe will skate one shift in a minor league game Friday night, becoming the first professional hockey player to play in six decades.

13.   He was the first European hockey coach to have his portrait in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto.

14.   Russian goalie Nikolai Khabibulin got the first hockey gold medal of the Salt Lake City Olympics without playing a game.

15.   So in the final, the Russians were playing against the Czech Republic, trying for its first Olympic hockey gold.

16.   Vaughan, on the Web site he maintains as www.birthplaceofhockey.com, notes the first hockey equipment came from Nova Scotia.

17.   The undefeated South Africans, playing their first Olympic hockey tournament, went into wild celebrations.

18.   The thrilling draw sent the South Africans, playing their first Olympic hockey tournament, into wild celebrations and the downcast Koreans counting their losses.