Ice Hockey

Ice Hockey is a team sport played between two teams of skaters on an ice rink and is the world’s most popular winter sport. In this sport, players use their sticks to shoot a puck into the opponent’s goal to score points. Ice hockey is the national sport of Canada for winters.

 

The sport is believed to be originated in the mid-1800s in Canada, but some believe that it was evolved from a stick and ball game played in the 18th and 19th century in the United Kingdom. In the international competitions of ice hockey, six countries predominate- Canada, Finland, Czech Republic, Sweden, Russia and the United States. Ice hockey is the part of Olympics since 1920.

To score more goals (points) than the opponent team by shooting the puck legally into the opponent’s goal.

General History

Ice hockey is believed to be evolved from the very basic stick and ball games played within the eighteenth and nineteenth-century UK et al. These games were then introduced to North America and hence several other informal winter games were developed, like "shinny" and "ice polo". The current sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, where the first indoor hockey match was played on March three, 1875. Some characteristics of that game, like the length of the ice rink and the use of a puck, are still maintained to the present day.

 

Amateur hockey game leagues began within the Eighteen Eighties, and pro hockey games originated around 1900. The Stanley Cup, emblematic of hockey game club ascendence, was initially awarded in 1893 to acknowledge the Canadian amateur champion and later became the championship trophy of the NHL. In the early nineteenth century, the Canadian rules were adopted by the Ligue Internationale Delaware Hockey Sur, the precursor of the IIHF, and therefore the sport was played for the first time at the 1920 summer Olympics.

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Equipment

The first skates had straightforward metal blades tied to regular shoes. The sticks were skinny items of wood till the nineteen thirties. In 1897, G.H. Merritt introduced the simple goalie pads by wearing the wicket-keeper's pads.

 

All players vied in simple leather gloves, until a goalie from Detroit introduced the trapper and blocker style of gloves in 1948, by experimenting with a rectangular piece of leather, and a baseball catcher's glove. Jacques Plante was the first person to use the goalie mask regularly while Clint Benedict used a crude animal skin version in 1928 to safeguard a broken nose.

 

The goalie mask then evolved to Vladislav Tretiak style - the first helmet and cage combination. Thought as primitive in today's customs, that kind of mask was still used by Chris Osgood. The other helmet and cage combo, which were last used by Dominik Hasek and Dan Cloutier, are usually questioned, indicating safety considerations.

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Game Rules (major changes in rules)

Year 1910-11

The game modified from two 30-minute periods to three 20-minute periods.

 

Year 1917-18

Goalies were allowed to fall to the ice to create saves. Previously, a goaltender was punished for dropping to the ice.

 

Year 1918-19

Two lines were painted on the ice twenty feet from centre, making 3 playing zones, forming a 40-foot neutral centre ice space. This can be conjoint once assists became a political candidate stat.

 

Year 1928-29

A minor penalty would be charged to any player who delayed the sport by passing the puck into his defensive zone.

 

Year 1929-30

One year later, forward-passing rules were established at the start of the season. This doubled the number of goals scored.

 

Year 1930-31

A further refinement of the offsides rule declared that the puck should initially be propelled into the offensive zone before any player of the offensive aspect will enter that zone. This is the current offsides rule.

 

Year 1934-35

A penalty shot was awarded once a player was tripped and therefore barred from having a clear shot on the goal, having no player to pass to apart from the offensive player. Penalty shots were then taken from within a 10-foot circle settled thirty-eight feet from the goal. The goaltender wasn't allowed to advance over one foot from his line once the shot was taken.

 

Year 1937-38

Rules were introduced that ruled icing the puck.

 

Year 1938-39

The penalty shot was changed to permit the puck carrier to skate in before shooting.

 

Year 1940-41

Using a Zamboni between periods became necessary.

 

Year 1942-43

Because of the wartime restrictions on train planning, regular-season overtime was discontinued on Nov. 21, 1942.

 

Year 1943-44

The line at centre ice was introduced to hurry up the sport and scale back offsides calls. This rule is taken into account to mark the start of the contemporary era within the NHL. Delayed penalty rules were also conjointly introduced back then.

 

Year 1956-57

A player serving a minor penalty was permitted to come back to the ice once a goal was scored by the opposing team.

 

Year 1959-60

A rule was enforced that prevented players from going away their benches to enter into an altercation.

 

Year 1983-84

Five-Minute sudden-death overtime to vie in regular-season games tied at the top of regulation was introduced.

 

Year 1991-92

(a) Video replays were used to help referees in goal/no goal matters.

 

(b) Major and penalty penalties were assessed for checking from behind into boards (boarding).

 

(c) A goal was denied if the puck entered the net when a player of the offensive team was standing on the goal crease line, within the goal crease or with his stick placed within the goal crease.

 

Year 1993-94

High sticking was redefined to permit goals that were scored with a stick below the peak of the crossbar of the goal frame.

 

Year 1999-00

(a) The crease rule was revised to achieve a "no hurt, no foul, no video review" commonplace.

 

(b) Regular-season games tied at the top of 3 periods, resulted in every team being awarded one point within the standings. As earlier, there was a five-minute sudden death with four skaters and a goaltender.

 

(c) A team evaluation in overtime received one additional point within the standings.

 

Year 2005-06

(a) the middle line was eliminated for two-line passes, and also the tag up offsides rule was restored.

 

(b) Constraints on the goaltender playing the puck outside a chosen space were introduced.

 

(c) The team icing the puck was forbidden from substituting for the following faceoff.

 

(d) A shoot out was added if the sport remained tied once the five-minute overtime.

 

(e) Goaltender’s equipment was downsized.

Variants

Pond Hockey

Pond hockey is a kind of ice hockey usually vied as pick-up hockey on lakes, ponds and artificial outdoor rinks throughout the winter. Pool hockey is often spoken in hockey circles as 'shinny'. Its rules dissent from old hockey since there's no hitting and remarkably very little shooting in it, inserting more considerable stress on passing, puckhandling and skating talents. Since 2002, the globe pool Hockey Championship has vied on Roulston Lake in Plaster Rock, New Brunswick, Canada. Since 2006, the United States pool Hockey Championships are competed in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while the Canadian National pool Hockey Championships have vied in Huntsville, Ontario.