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Street hockey (also known as shinny, dek hockey, ball hockey, road hockey) is a collection of team sport variants played outdoors either on foot or with wheeled skates (either quad or in-line), using either a ball or puck designed for play on flat, dry surfaces. The object of every game is to score more goals than the opposing team by shooting ...
Shinny (also shinney, pick-up hockey, pond hockey, or "outdoor puck") is an informal type of hockey played on ice. It is also used as another term for street hockey. There are no formal rules or specific positions, and often, there are no goaltenders. The goal areas at each end may be marked by nets, or simply by objects, such as stones or ...
Box hockey is also used for agility training in hockey schools and camps throughout Canada and the U.S. [11] Handmade suitcase-style box hockey games are still available at crafts events like the Lowell Folk Festival in Lowell, Massachusetts. Each year they also have a dozen or so set up for playing during the festivities. [12]
FRANKLIN – Ben Paterson rarely leaves the ice. He starts for Franklin's boys hockey team and plays on the Panthers' power play and penalty kill.
Franklin field hockey falls to top-seeded Walpole The Porkers (21-1) scored just two minutes and 40 seconds into the game on a penalty corner, one of six Walpole earned. “They were nervous.
Franklin captain Dylan McEvoy will see plenty of ice time, but don’t look for him on the blue line like his Bruins almost namesake (with just a letter of difference), Charlie McAvoy. The pair ...
Generally speaking, only competitive-level inline hockey is strictly bound by the governing body's rules. Recreational hockey leagues may make modifications to certain aspects of the rules to suit local requirements (size of rink, length of periods and penalties). Roller hockey is a growing sport with teams cropping up all over the country. [5]
Floor hockey codes derived from ice hockey were first officially played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in 1875, [citation needed] but the game's official creation is credited to Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductee, Samuel Perry Jacks, better known as "Sam Jacks". [3] Jacks is the individual who codified floor hockey's first set of rules in 1936. [4]