Hockey

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Hockey is a sport in which two teams
try to hit a hard, round ball or puck at
the opponent's goal using sticks. Each
team has one goalkeeper who
defends his team's goal

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Hockey is considered by many to be one of the most
beautiful, but at the same time very difficult sports. What is
needed here are qualities such as strength and quick
reaction, dexterity and the ability to instantly assess the
situation, and much more. A mandatory characteristic of
players is courage, because it is not without reason that
there is a saying “a coward does not play hockey.” And,
truly, everyone who decided to devote their life to this
game is very brave. Perhaps this is precisely why it attracts
fans from all over the world who are able to appreciate
the complexity and technicality of this wonderful team
game

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Ice hockey is played on
ice with a small (180
gram) rubber disc called
a puck. The most
popular of all types of
hockey, the prefix “with
the puck” is usually
omitted. Canada is
considered the
homeland. It is also
popular in Russia,
Scandinavian countries,
the Czech Republic and
other countries.
Online hockey and roller
hockey (rink hockey) are
analogues of ice hockey
played on roller skates.

5.

Table hockey
Field hockey is played on a
special synthetic surface
(formerly grass) with a small
hard ball. The most
widespread type of hockey in
the world, in Englishlanguage sources it is often
referred to simply as
“hockey”.
The International Ice Hockey
Federation includes 116
countries. Most popular in
Holland, Germany, Spain,
Belgium, England, Ireland,
Argentina, Australia, New
Zealand, South Africa, India,
Pakistan, Malaysia.
Bandy (bandy or Russian
hockey) is played on ice with
a small, hard ball. Most
popular in Russia, Sweden,
Finland and Norway.

6.

Floorball
is an indoor hockey game
played with plastic sticks and a semiplastic ball.
Vertical hockey and Luge hockey are
types of hockey for the disabled..

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The most popular
Hockey was introduced to Canada in the 18th
version about the
century, when the country was conquered by Great
origin of hockey is
the birth of this sport Britain from France, in the form of field hockey. Due
to the cold Canadian winters, the game quickly
in Montreal.
However, there is a evolved into ice hockey. The first hockey players
lot of evidence that attached cheese cutters to their shoes and played
hockey was played hockey on frozen ponds. At the end of the 19th
century, when hockey became quite popular
back in the 16th
century in Holland, among Canadians, the rules of the game were
at a time when
streamlined, and the first competitions of the few
America had just
teams that had been formed by that time were
been discovered,
held. A couple of decades later, hockey received a
and hockey could powerful impetus for development - in 1917, the
not have existed
National Hockey League (NHL) was formed, which
there
became the first professional hockey league in the
world. In those early days, the league included only
four hockey teams. 90 years later, the NHL already
has 30 hockey teams from 29 cities in the USA and
Canada, competing annually for the league's main
prize, the most valuable award in the world of
hockey - the Stanley Cup.

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In addition to the USA and Canada, many
European countries have their own professional
hockey leagues. But so far only the Continental
Hockey League has been able to compete
with North American hockey in terms of the
level of organization of the competition, the
skill of the hockey players and the
entertainment value of the hockey match
itself. The Continental Hockey League was
organized in 2008, and immediately included
many teams from Russia, Belarus, Latvia,
Finland, Ukraine and Kazakhstan. Today, KHL
matches are not only a spectacle for hockey
fans, but also colorful pre-match shows and
entertainment for spectators during breaks and
during games.

9.

CKA is a hockey club, the only
representative of St. Petersburg
in the KHL. Founded on
December 11, 1946. Since the
2008/2009 season, it has
entered
the
Kontinental
Hockey League in the Bobrov
division.