Ice hockey, whose origins lie in the late nineteenth century, is a sport that pits two teams of six players each with the aim of introducing a rubber disc inside the opponent’s goal guarded by a goalkeeper. The particularity of this sport is that the goal should be to get fulfill sliding down a frozen track with a sharp blade skates. The rubber disc, also called a puck, is slipped on the ice with the help of a stick ice hockey game, known as stick.

Dimensions of track and duration

Ice hockey takes place in a rectangular ice rink, also called rink, ranging in size 61 meters long by 30 wide. All ice hockey regulation tracks has rounded corners, to prevent the puck will slow to reach every corner, thus giving more vibrancy and attractiveness of the game. Normally, ice hockey clues surrounding a high wall that serves to clear the puck does not leave the playing area, but does not prevent public visibility.

Players can use the presence of this wall to try to develop plays with his help, bouncing the pick to dribble an opponent, for example. The center of the track is always marked by a red line that connects each of the two halves of the court. In the field are placed two red lines to mark the goal line at each end of the track, just where are located the two goals. Read more »