ICE HOCKEY

Name of the teacher: Jolu Fernandez

Subject: Physical Education
Participants: Paula Fayos Mínguez, Dulce María Barrios Suárez, Marcos
Atienzar León, Marcos Caballero Rived

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WHAT IS IT ABOUT?
Ice hockey is a team sport played on an ice rink with a puck and a stick. It is
played by two teams of six players each, including a goaltender, who aim to
score goals in the opposing net and defend their own net.

Ice hockey is immensely popular in Canada, where it is the national winter

sport and arguably the country’s most popular game. Hockey is also
popular in the United States and in European countries such as Russia,
Sweden, and Finland. More than a million registered athletes play regularly
in leagues worldwide.

Ice hockey is known for its fast pace, athletic ability, and emotional
intensity of players and fans. It is a popular sport to both play and watch,
and has generated a great culture and tradition in many parts of the world.

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POSITIONS

These are the positions in hockey. A hockey game is played with 6 players
on the ice.

The five players have the following positions:

● one center
● a left and right wing
● two defensemen

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WHAT DIFFERENT POSITIONS DO?

Center: The robust. The

center is the central attacker in hockey. He is usually the scorer.

The center is
not only
occupied with
scoring. He
must also
support the
defense to
keep the
puck as far
away from his
own goal as
possible.

THESE ARE A CENTER'S TASKS IN A GAME OF HOCKEY:

● Score goals
● Complete passes
● Win faceoffs
● Support your wingers
● Collect rebounds in opponent's goal area
● Keep the puck and opponents away from your own goal
● Lead breakouts
● Switch quickly from attack to defense after puck loss

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Winger: The nimble

The left and right wingers are at the center's side. They support the center
and score goals.

Wingers must
be especially
fast ice-skaters.
After all, they
often have to
pass long
distances,
create
opportunities in
the opponent's
crease and attack the opponent's goal to take advantage of scoring
opportunities.

THESE ARE THE TASKS OF A WINGER:

● move the puck out of the defensive zone

● help the center score goals
● take passes from the forwards
● score goals
● prevent the opponent's defenders from getting the puck
● block shots and passes from the opponent
● intercept passes and start breakaways

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Defensemen: the dream team
The two defensemen play like the winger on the left and right of the ice.
Their main task is to protect their own goal from attacks by the opposing
team and to get the puck for their own team.
Like the other skaters on the, the two defenders take on different tasks. If
their own team starts an attack, the defenders do not hesitate and chase
after them to support their team-mates in front of the opposing goal

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HISTORY
Origins

Until the mid-1980s it was generally accepted that ice hockey derived from
English field hockey and Indian lacrosse and was spread throughout
Canada by British soldiers in the mid-1800s. Research then turned up
mention of a hockeylike game, played in the early 1800s in Nova Scotia by
the Mi’kmaq (Micmac) Indians, which appeared to have been heavily
influenced by the Irish game of hurling; it included the use of a “hurley”
(stick) and a square wooden block instead of a ball. It was probably
fundamentally this game that spread throughout Canada via Scottish and
Irish immigrants and the British army. The players adopted elements of
field hockey, such as the “bully” (later the face-off) and “shinning” (hitting
one’s opponent on the shins with the stick or playing with the stick on one
“shin” or side); this evolved into an informal ice game later known as shinny
or shinty. The name hockey—as the organized game came to be
known—has been attributed to the French word hoquet (shepherd’s stick).
The term rink, referring to the designated area of play, was originally used
in the game of curling in 18th-century Scotland. Early hockey games
allowed as many as 30 players a side on the ice, and the goals were two
stones, each frozen into one end of the ice. The first use of a puck instead of
a ball was recorded at Kingston Harbour, Ontario, Canada, in 1860.

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HOCKEY CLAss
GAMES:

1. GALLINERO

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 2. Noughts and crosses(tres
en raya)

3. Tag (pilla pilla)

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 4. Knock down cones

5. Matches

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