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A standard ice hockey puck. A hockey puck is either an open or closed disk used in a variety of sports and games. There are designs made for use on an ice surface, such as in ice hockey, and others for the different variants of floor hockey which includes the wheeled skate variant of inline hockey (a.k.a. roller hockey).
The sport is known as bandy in many languages, with a few exceptions. In Russia, bandy is called "Russian hockey" (русский хоккей) or more frequently, and officially, "hockey with a ball" (хоккей с мячом) while ice hockey is called "hockey with a puck" (хоккей с шайбой) or more frequently just "hockey". If ...
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 ...
Puck (sports) → Hockey puck — Despite what SMcCandlish wrote above, this article is still almost exclusively about hockey pucks, and I submit that's the common name for the item (absent just "puck" which is ambiguous). If the article is ever expanded to include information about other types of pucks (though I submit they perhaps might go in ...
The puck is iced directly from a player participating in a face-off. The goaltender leaves their goal crease and moves in the direction of the puck (except under USA Hockey rules). The goaltender touches the puck. The puck crosses the goal line between the goal posts of the opposing team; this scenario rewards a goal to the team which hit the ...
In the 1990s, Fox got rights to NHL games. To the horror of hockey purists, the network tried using a "glowing puck" during broadcasts, with a glowing tail on it when there was a hard shot ...
A stick and puck are used as in hockey (the puck is a softer version called a "sponge puck"), and the same soft-soled shoes are worn as in broomball. The rules are basically the same as for ice hockey, but one variation has an extra player on the ice called a "rover". Table hockey is played indoors on a table.
Girl with a field hockey stick. A hockey stick is a piece of sports equipment used by the players in all the forms of hockey to move the ball or puck (as appropriate to the type of hockey) either to push, pull, hit, strike, flick, steer, launch or stop the ball/puck during play with the objective being to move the ball/puck around the playing area using the stick, and then trying to score.