Breaking the Ice

Part I. Labor Relations and Player Behavior

1. From Strikes to Lockouts: Consequences of theShift in theBalance of Power from thePlayers’ Union to theOwners in theNational Hockey League
Joel Maxcy

2. Fighting as aProfit-Maximizing Strategy: The American Hockey League
Duane W. Rockerbie

Part II. Salary Determination and Player Careers

3. Returns to Handedness in Professional Hockey
Dennis Coates

4. All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in theNHL
Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Tingting Zhang

Part III. Diversity and Discrimination

5. If You Can Play, You Get the Pay!? A Survey on Salary Discrimination in theNHL
Petra Nieken, Michael Stegh

6. The Source of theCultural or Language Diversity Effects in theNational Hockey League
Kevin P. Mongeon, J. Michael Boyle

7. Team-Level Referee Discrimination in theNational Hockey League
Kevin Mongeon, Neil Longley

Part IV. Ticket Demand and Ticket Pricing

8. The Effect of ‘Superstars’ on Attendance: NHL-Players in theGerman and Czech Hockey League
Christian Deutscher, Sandra Schneemann

9. An Exploration of Dynamic Pricing in theNational Hockey League
Rodney J. Paul, Andrew P. Weinbach

Nyckelord: Economics, Sports Economics, Labor Economics, Industrial Organization