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Microsoft Games: Backyard Hockey: 2003 Game Boy Advance: Atari: Hockey Mania 2003 Commodore 64 Protovision Hockey.tk: 2004 PC: Jouko Pynnönen ESPN NHL 2K5: August 30, 2004 PlayStation 2 Xbox: ESPN Video games, Sega: NHL 2005: September 14, 2004 PC PlayStation 2 Xbox GameCube: EA Sports: NHL Eastside Hockey Manager: October 19, 2004 PC: Sports ...
The teddy bear toss is a popular Christmas season promotion most common at junior ice hockey and minor league hockey games. Fans are encouraged to bring teddy bears or other stuffed toys to the game, and to throw them onto the ice when the home team scores its first goal. The toys are gathered to be donated as presents to hospitals and charities.
The Punch-up in Piestany was a bench-clearing brawl between Canada and the Soviet Union during the final game of the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships in Piešťany, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) on January 4, 1987. The incident resulted in the ejection of both teams from the tournament, and while the Soviets had already been ...
ESPN NHL Hockey (also known as NHL 2K4) is a video game released by Sega in 2003. It was released for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox. The cover athlete is Jeremy Roenick, who was then on the Philadelphia Flyers The game uses the ESPN presentation style using ESPN graphics, music, and is featuring ESPN on-air talent.
The game's setting is the 1970s in the fictional Bush Hockey League (BHL). Executive producer Mike Torillo stated that the game takes inspiration from the 1977 film Slap Shot. [3] Bush Hockey League has an exhibition mode, and a story mode. It features a variety of control schemes, including simplified two-button controls, and a "beer mode ...
Though inline hockey is considered a variant of roller hockey a.k.a. "rink hockey", it was derived from ice hockey instead and uses a type of hockey puck or a ball. Both roller games use a type of wheeled skate but inline hockey uses inline skates rather than roller skates or "quads".
NHL Open Ice: 2 on 2 Challenge is an ice hockey arcade video game released by Midway Games in 1995. [3] It has been described as an ice hockey equivalent to Midway's NBA Jam. [4] [5] NHL Open Ice was ported to the PlayStation in 1996 with updated rosters and teams, the Winnipeg Jets having moved and become the Phoenix Coyotes.
Jim Hughson, former play-by-play man for CBC's Hockey Night in Canada and also one of Canada's best-known hockey announcers, provided the play-by-play for much of the series. The last games in which he is one of the announcers are the PC and PS2 versions of NHL 09. Bill Clement was the sole commentator in the Nintendo 64 version of NHL 99.