The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF), which oversees Olympic hockey, has 68 member countries. However only 12 top nations played in the 2010 Olympic Hockey tournament. In the past, the number of countries participating in any given Olympics ranged from 7 to 16.
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There are thousands of people that participate in hockey each year in Canada alone. This number is higher and lower in different countries.
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they all were already playing pro hockey before they goined the olymics.
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