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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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Ice hockey
Hook cheque
Sports; Ice hockey
A sweep of the stick low to the ice to take the puck from an opponents stick.
Hooking
Sports; Ice hockey
A minor penalty which occurs when a player attempts to impede the progress of another player by hooking any part of the opponents body with the blade of his stick; an illegal use of ones stick.
Interference
Sports; Ice hockey
A penalty in hockey called when a player attempts to impede the motion of another player not in possession of the puck.
Kneeing
Sports; Ice hockey
A minor penalty which occurs when a player uses a knee to hit his opponent in the leg, thigh or lower body.
Line change
Sports; Ice hockey
The entire forward line and/or defensive line will be replaced at once, which puts players on the ice who work well together.
Major penalty
Sports; Ice hockey
A type of individual penalty called for more serious infractions of the rules; of 5 minutes in duration whether or not the non-penalized team scores.
