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Roller hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry surface using wheeled skates. It can be played with traditional roller skates (quad skates) or with inline skates and use either a ball or puck. Combined, roller hockey is played in nearly 60 countries worldwide. [1] [2] [3] There are three major variants of organized roller hockey.
Inline hockey or roller hockey is a variant of hockey played on a hard, smooth surface, with players using inline skates to move and ice hockey sticks to shoot a hard, plastic puck into their opponent's goal to score points. [1] The sport is a very fast-paced and free-flowing game and is considered a contact sport, but body checking is prohibited.
Teams were generally made up of minor league ice hockey players playing on inline skates during the summer months between ice seasons. [4] Murphy saw big potential for the sport and believed that inline hockey could become the number one hockey sport in the US. [3] The league had plans to expand to up to 24 teams, including some from Europe, by ...
Roller hockey (in British English), rink hockey (in American English) or ball roller hockey is a team sport played on roller skates.It is a quad-skate team sport where two teams face-off against one another, trying to drive a hard ball with their sticks into the opposing teams' goalnet.
Roller hockey is the overarching name for variants of hockey played on quad or inline skates. Quad hockey (also called rink hockey, hardball hockey, or simply roller hockey) has been played since the 19th century. It is played in many countries worldwide and was a demonstration rollersport in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. Other ...
The World Skate Roller Hockey World Cup is the international championship for roller hockey organized by World Skate. The first event was held in 1936, in the city of Stuttgart. Since 1989, the World Championship tournament is held every two years on the odd years. Until 2017, it was organized by the Fédération Internationale de Roller Sports.
After the suspension of Roller Hockey International (RHI) for the 1998 season, Major League Roller Hockey was founded in 1998 in Alexandria, Virginia by entrepreneur Bill Raue. The inaugural season featured two franchises from the suspended RHI (the Anaheim Bullfrogs and Buffalo Wings ) and 18 new franchises, with 11 in the United States, one ...
The roller hockey rankings are rankings of national teams and clubs of this sport. Men's national teams ranking The ...