This book provides a survey of the academic research and knowledge on the economics and
management of professional hockey. While professional football baseball and basketball have
been the focus of sports economists for decades professional hockey has been left out of most
economic analyses of the sports industry. This book fills that gap by presenting a selection of
research focusing specifically on hockey such as labor relations and player behavior in the
NHL salary determination and player careers ticket demand and ticket pricing and emerging
topics such as diversity and discrimination. Expanding the available literature dramatically
this book will be an important tool for researchers as well as sports managers and students at
the advanced undergraduate and graduate level.
