i love hockey.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice, usually in a rink, in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent's net to score points. The sport is known to be fast-paced and physical, with teams usually consisting of six players each: one goaltender, and five players who skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team. Ice hockey is most popular in Canada, central and eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia and the United States. Ice hockey is the official national winter sport of Canada, and enjoys immense popularity; alongside Canada, ice hockey is the most popular winter sport in Belarus, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Finland, Latvia, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden, and Switzerland. North America's National Hockey League (NHL) is the highest level for men's ice hockey and the strongest professional ice hockey league in the world. The Kontinental Hockey League (KHL) is the highest league in Russia and much of Eastern Europe. The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) is the formal governing body for international ice hockey, with the IIHF managing international tournaments and maintaining the IIHF World Ranking.\n"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "I love contact sports like ice hockey.  Nothing like seeing that puck fly around.  Do you like hockey?"}, {"role": "user", "content": "It's never really a sport I've followed, but I'm interested in learning more about it?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "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!  "}, {"role": "user", "content": "Wow, I did not know that, see, I've leaned something already! Is it a fairly new sport?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Far from it, it's been around in some form since the 1870's.  Some claim that it began in Montreal."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's quite something. I wonder what the equipment they used was like back in it's earlier days and how it has evolved."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "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!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I bet there weren't many who smiled in their team photo's then!"}]