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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]
The National Hockey League rules are the rules governing the play of the National Hockey League (NHL), a professional ice hockey organization. Infractions of the rules, such as offside and icing , lead to a stoppage of play and subsequent face-offs , while more serious infractions lead to penalties being assessed to the offending team.
In organized leagues, floor hockey often has specific rules in place that differ slightly from outdoor street hockey. The walls or fencing of these "rinks" serve to keep the ball, puck, or disc, in play similarly to the boards of an ice rink. Floor hockey has several variants, uses either a puck or type of disk, but only one, called "Cosom ...
The first case is a style of floor hockey whose rules were codified in 1936 during the Great Depression by Canada's Sam Jacks. The second case involves a variant which was later modified in roughly the 1970s to make a related game that would be considered suitable for inclusion as a team sport in the newly emerging Special Olympics.
The basic rules were established in 1979 when the first floorball club in the world, Sala IBK, from Sala, was founded in Sweden. [2] Official rules for matches were first written down in 1981. [3] The sport is organized internationally by the International Floorball Federation (IFF).
Samuel Perry Jacks (April 23, 1915 – May 14, 1975) more commonly known as, "Sam Jacks," was a Canadian soldier in World War II, inventor, military and civic recreation director, sports coach, creator of the Canadian sport of ringette for girls [1] [2] and the creator and codifier of the first set of rules for floor hockey in 1936.
Bo Horvat and Evgeni Malkin lineup for a face-off during a National Hockey League game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Vancouver Canucks in November 2015. A face-off is the method used to begin and restart play after goals in some sports using sticks, primarily ice hockey, bandy, floorball, broomball, rinkball, and lacrosse.
The sport is also a variant of one of several floor hockey game codes; more specifically, it is a variant of street hockey. Ball hockey is patterned after and closely related to ice hockey , except the game is played on foot on a non-ice surface, player equipment is different, and an orange ball is used instead of a hockey puck .