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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breaking pass

Sports; Ice hockey

a pass to a teammate who is trying for a breakaway.

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

Sports; Ice hockey

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.

carom

Sports; Ice hockey

a rebound of the puck off the boards or any other object.

center face-off circle

Sports; Ice hockey

a circle, measuring 30 feet in diameter, at the center 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.