Ice hockey

Ice hockey

Ice Hockey is a team sport played on an ice rink in which players skate on ice skates while using a wooden stick to hit a rubber puck into the opposing team's goal. Hockey is a full contact sport and full body padding must be worn.

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Butt-ending

Sports; Ice hockey

A major penalty which occurs when a player jabs an opponent with the shaft of his hockey stick.

Campbell Conference

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Was one of the two conferences in the NHL that contained the Norris and Smythe Divisions until 1992-93; renamed the Western Conference in 1993.

Centre face-off circle

Sports; Ice hockey

A circle, measuring 30 feet in diameter, at the centre of the ice where the puck is dropped in a face-off to start the game and to restart the game after a goal has been scored.

Clearing the puck

Sports; Ice hockey

Getting the puck out of ones own defensive zone.

Charging

Sports; Ice hockey

A minor penalty which occurs when a player makes a deliberate move of more than two steps when body checking an opponent; if serious injury is caused or blood is drawn it becomes a major penalty.

Clearing the zone

Sports; Ice hockey

When a defending player sends the puck out of the opponent's attacking zone, all the attacking players must leave or clear the zone to avoid being called offsides when the puck reenters the zone.