Introduction
Hockey refers to any of a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball, or a hard, round rubber or heavy plastic disc called a puck into the opponent's net or goal by using a hockey stick.In ice hockey, two teams both comprising six players use a stick to hit a puck. The object of the game is to put the puck into the opposition's goal and keep it out of your goal. The aim is to score more goals than the opposition.
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Ice hockey is played on a large flat area of ice using a three inch (76.2 mm) diameter vulcanized rubber disc called a puck. This puck is often frozen before high-level games to decrease the amount of bouncing and friction on the ice.The ice rink is surrounded by a wall painted white known as the 'boards'. The boards are a minimum of 1.7m high to a maximum of 1.22m high.
The ice surface is divided in its length by five lines extending across the rink and vertically up the side of the boards.Goal lines are red lines 4m from each end of the rink and 5cm wide.Blue lines are blue lines 30cm wide and divide the ice area from goal line to goal line into thirds.Centre line is located in the middle of rink, 30cm wide and red.Goal crease is a 5cm red line in front of each goal.