Ice hockey, also known as simply hockey, is a team sport that is played on ice skates, typically on a specialized ice skating rink. It is a member of the hockey family of sports. A closed, vulcanized rubber disc known as a "puck" is controlled, advanced, and shot into the goal by two opposing teams using ice hockey sticks. One point is awarded for each goal. The group which scores the most objectives is pronounced the victor. In a formal game, unless there are penalties, each team has six skaters on the ice at once, one of whom is the goaltender. One of the most physically taxing team sports is ice hockey, which involves full contact.The International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) oversees both men's and women's ice hockey's premier international competition, the IIHF World Championships. Ice hockey is one of the sports represented at the Winter Olympics.
In North America and portions of Europe the game is referred to just as hockey[citation needed]. However, field hockey is typically referred to as "hockey" in other nations. The modern sport of ice hockey was developed in Canada, most notably in Montreal, where the first indoor game was played on March 3, 1875. Hockey was officially recognized as Canada's national winter sport in 1994[3]. A few qualities of that game, like the length of the ice arena and the utilization of a puck, have been held right up 'til now. In the 1880s, amateur ice hockey leagues were established, and professional ice hockey was established around 1900. The Stanley Cup, meaningful of ice hockey club matchless quality, was at first appointed in 1892 as the "Territory Hockey Challenge Cup" and was first granted in 1893 to perceive the Canadian novice champion and later turned into the title prize of the Public Hockey Association (NHL). The Ligue Internationale de Hockey Sur Glace, the predecessor of the IIHF, in Paris, France, adopted the Canadian rules at the beginning of the 1900s. The game was played interestingly at the Olympics during the 1920 Summer Olympics.
Although women also played in the early stages of the game, it wasn't until organizers started officially banning body checking from female ice hockey in the middle of the 1980s that the sport started to gain more popularity, which by that time had spread to Europe and other countries. In 1990, the first IIHF Women's World Championship was held, and the Olympics included women's play in 1998. game's general characteristics remain unchanged, but the specific rules are determined by the particular code of play in use. The International Ice Hockey Federation's (IIHF's) and the National Hockey League's (NHL's) codes—along with a few others—were derived from the early 20th-century Canadian ice hockey rules.
A hockey rink is where ice hockey is played. During typical play, there are six players on ice skates on the ice per side, one of them being the goaltender. The target of the game is to score objectives by shooting a hard vulcanized elastic plate, the puck, into the rival's objective net at the far edge of the arena. The players pass or shoot the puck with their sticks.
Players can use any part of their bodies to reposition the puck, subject to some limitations. It is against the rules for players to have the puck in their hands or pass it to their teammates unless they are in the defensive zone. However, players can use their own hand to knock a puck out of the air. Kicking the puck into the goal of an opponent is against the rules, but unintentional redirections off the skate are allowed. The puck may not be intentionally batted into the net by players with their hands.
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