Ice Hockey For Beginners
For those who know absolutely nothing about ice hockey here is some information on the most exciting game played on ice!
The Micmac Indians played a sport very similar to hockey in Nova Scotia during the 1800’s. This forerunner to modern ice hockey included influences of an earlier game the Irish called hurling; which included using a hurley stick and a block made of wood.
British soldiers along with the Scottish and Irish immigrants brought ice hockey to Canada. The game play was made of elements from Indian lacrosse and field hockey played in England. Early ice hockey games allowed up to 30 players on a side at one time.
Ice hockey is believed to have been first played in the USA in 1893,
Each team is made up of five players and one goaltender. The object of ice hockey is to score more goals than the opposing team. Goals are scored by putting the puck (a hard disk of vulcanized rubber used in a similar way to a ball in other games) in the opponents net. The goaltender is in place to try and stop this from happening.
The ice is divided into three equal areas divided by blue lines. The game lasts for sixty minutes, broken into 3 twenty-minute periods. The clock may stop any number of times due to infractions and penalties and then re-start when everything is suitable again for the game to continue.
Here are a few examples of the very interesting terminology used in this game:
Off Side: When the players are skating towards the other team’s net, the players cannot cross the blue line ahead of the puck.
Biscuit: Another name for the puck.
Coast to Coast: To skate the puck from one end to the other without being stopped.
Face Off: The referee drops the puck between two players who face off to gain control of the puck.
Penalty Kill: As a result of a penalty, the penalized player must sit in the penalty box for a designated length of time. The team will have to continue playing without the aid of that player. If they get through this time without the opponents scoring that is call a Penalty kill.
Short Handed: When your team is down players e.g. one has been penalised as above.
Break Out: When the players are trying to get the puck out of their own defensive zone.
Hat Trick: When one player scores three goals in one game.
Breakaway: When one player is skating the puck towards the goalie with no-one near him to stop him attempting to score.
Cherry Picking: This is when a player is hanging around the other team’s goalie.
Screen: When the goalie cannot see the player shooting the puck because other players are in the way.
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Stoned: When the goalie manages to stop the puck going into the net.
Goon: A player that is quick to fight and known to receive many penalties.
Hopefully these terms will help you to understand the game a little bit better and therefore enjoy it more.
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