Ice hockey is the most popular sport in
Canada. It is necessary two teams with six players each one to play
and an ice rink . Players which are called skaters have to use a stick to hit a
hard rubber puck into their opponent’s net. The word "hockey" is
probably derived from the French hoquet ("shepherd's crook"),
referring to the shape of the stick.
Those are some words that belong to the ice
hockey vocabulary:
backhand shot: a shot or pass made with the stick from the
left side by a right-handed player or from the right side by a left-handed
player.
flat pass: when a player passes the puck to a teammate along the surface of the ice.
goalkeeper, goalie or
goaltender: the heavily padded player who
prevents opponents from scoring.
There is a National Hockey League which is made
up of 30 teams, six of them belong to
Canadian cities. Some of them are:
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| Calgary flames. |
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| Toronto Maple Leafs |
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| Montreal Canadiens |
There is also a variation of Hockey called: Sledge
hockey, played by athletes with a lower extremity disability. Canada first
participated in this category in 1976 but the teams of that period didn’t won
any medals. In 1996 the Canadian Sledge hockey won a bronze medal at the world
championships and in 2000 the team won a gold medal.
Sources:
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/hockey-ice
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