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Ice Hockey
A competitive game played by two teams on a hockey rink. The objective of the game is to score goals by playing the puck with into the opponent's goal net. The puck is controlled with a hockey stick. The winner is the team with a higher score. Ice hockey is the world's fastest team sport and requires the players be both physically and technically well prepared (skating, stickhandling). Important element of the game is so called body checking, which is the use of hips or shoulders to hit another player if the player has the puck or is the last to have touched it. Hockey is typically played by men. It is a demanding game, not only in terms of physical strength, but also in terms of speed
of reaction it requires from players. They have to have plenty of self-control in numerous altercations throughout the game.
- Rules and regulations
Each hockey team consists of 6 players (a goaltender, 2 defensemen, and 3 forwards), each of whom is on ice skates. Players are equipped with an array of safety gear to reduce
their risk of serious injury. Each team may carry at most 22 players on its game roster
(2 goaltenders, 8 defensemen, and 12 forwards) whose substitutions are permitted at any time during the course of the game.
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- The game is stopped:
The play is resumed from one of the 9 face-off spots. The player is considered offsides when he is on offense and crosses the blue line, which marks the attacking zone, before moving the puck into the zone or before it has been advanced there by a teammate. Offsides are called by the officials, who signal them by raising their arm.
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- Equipment
A rink has a rectangular ice surface that is 61 m long and 30m wide (in the NHL - 26m). It is surrounded by a hard wood or plastic wall, which is painted white, and about 1.2 m high. At each end of the ice rink, there is a steel red-painted goal, which is 1.83m wide by 1.22m high. For players' safety, the goal is moored to the ice with flexible pegs so it can be moved. Each corner of the rink is curved - 7 -8.5m radius.
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- The red line:
The goal crease is a half circle with radius of 1.8 m, filled in with light blue. Two blue lines divide the rink into three zones: neutral zone in the center, offensive zone, and defensive zone (each zone is 17.67m long, both end zones are 4 m off the end of the rink). The circle in the center of ice is marked with a blue line with radius of 4.5m, in the center of which is a central face-off spot used each time a goal is scored or for penalty shots.
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