What is Ice Hockey?
Posted July 6th, 2008 by Kate
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The Sport
- Fast, exciting action sport for spectators to watch in close quarters.
- The fastest team sport in the world with the puck travelling up to 100mph.
- The largest indoor sport in Great Britain in terms of spectator numbers.
- Attracted in excess of 1.5 million paying customers last season alone, showing a significant growth over the past 5 years.
- National sport, Oxford played in cities throughout Britain, including; Basingstoke, Bracknell, Cardiff, London, Milton Keynes, Slough, Solihull, Southampton, Swindon and Telford.
The Game
- Played in three periods of 20 mins each.
- 6 players (including a netminder) allowed on the ice at any one time.
- Unlimited subsittutions allow for a continuously fast and exciting game.
- Three leagues in the UK; Elite League, English Premier League and the English National League.
- Top 4 teams in each league at the end of each season, all play each other again once more, home and away, for the 'play-offs'.
