Hockey 101
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Basic Hockey Skills
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Skating: Skating is the most essential skill in hockey. It allows skaters to accelerate, stop and change
directions quickly, and maintain balance while controling the puck. Players not skilled in skating will be less able to
preform advanced hockey skills.
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Stick Handling: Stick handling is the most difficult skill to master and requires practice, strength, and
repetition. It allows players to manuver around opponents and create scoring opprotunities and is essential to play a
high level of hockey. What could make this more difficult? Not looking at the puck while you are doing it.
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Passing: Effective passing allows a team to keep control of the puck and quickly move it down the ice.
It creates offensive opprotunities and keeps everyone involved in the game.
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Shooting: Shooting scores goals and goals are needed to win a game. Most often a shot is taken as the
end result of an offensive play, but occasionally a defensive turnover will result in a shot on goal. Most often shots
have to be hard, quick, and accurate to be effective.
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Penalties
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Minor Penalty: A 2 minute penalty assessed to a player for minor rules infractions. Penalties such as
tripping, elbowing, roughing, high-sticking, too many players on the ice, holding, interference, hooking, etc. are
considered minor penalties. A minor penalty is served by the player commiting the infraction.
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Bench Minor: A 2 minute minor penalty assessed to a player or coach on the bench. Typically this is for
using abusive language twords the officials or interfering with the game play. The penalty is served by a player on the
ice when the infraction occured.
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Double Minor: A 4 minute penalty assessed to a player for a minor rules violation. Typically the penalty
causes an injury inadvertently.
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Major Penalties: A 5 minute penalty assessed to a player for minor penalties with the intent to injur.
Penalties such as spearing or fighting fall into this category. At lower levels of hockey these may result in automatic
game misconduct penalties.
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Misconduct Penalty: A 10 minute penalty assessed to a player for unacceptable conduct on the ice. These
penalties are typcially called along with a minor penalty. A player must server the accumulated time of the misconduct and
the minor penalties.
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Game Misconduct: This penalty results in ejection from the current game. This is reserved for severe
infractions. The player may return to play the following game. At lower levels a player may be suspended from additional
games.
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Gross Misconduct: This is similar to a game misconduct except a player may not return to play until a
league official has reviewed the penalty.
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List Of Penalties: These are some of the common penalties: tripping, hooking, spearing, elbowing,
fighting, slashing, goaltender interference, high sticking, roughing, holding, too many men on the ice, and delay of game.
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Hockey Lingo
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Assist - Assists are given to the player(s) who setup the goal. A maximum of two can be awarded per goal.
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Back Checking - Back checking is the act of a defensive player chasing an offensive player down the ice to
disrupt the offense and protect their goal and defensive zone.
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Breakout - Play made to get the puck out of a teams defensive zone, or the neutral zone, and into it's
offensive zone.
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Changing On The Fly - Changing lines while play is occuring.
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Clearing The Puck - Shooting the puck out of the defensive zone.
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Defensive Zone - The area between the goal line and the blue line which contains the net a team is trying to
keep the opponent from attacking.
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Face Off - Starting or resuming play by dropping the puck between two players.
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Five Hole - The opening between the goalie's leg pads.
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Goal - Shooting the puck into the opposing teams net. The entire puck must cross the goal line to be counted.
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Hat Trick - Occurs when a player scores at least three goals in one game.
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Neutral Zone - The area between the two blue lines
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Offensive Zone - The area between the goal line and the blue line which contains the net a team is attacking.
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Point - The point is the area just inside the blue line where the defensmen stand.
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Screened Shot - This occurs when a player blocks the goalies view of a shot on goal.
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Slot - The area right in front of the goalies crease and between the faceoff circles.
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Zamboni - Vehicle used to clean the ice.
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