Hockey Hockey The 1921-22 WCHL season was the first season for the now defunct Western Canada Hockey League. Four teams played 24 games each. ...more on Wikipedia about "1921-22 WCHL season"
The 1922-23 WCHL season was the second season for the now defunct Western Canada Hockey League. Four teams played 30 games each. ...more on Wikipedia about "1922-23 WCHL season"
The 1923-24 WCHL season was the third season for the now defunct Western Canada Hockey League. Four teams played 30 games each. ...more on Wikipedia about "1923-24 WCHL season"
The 1924-25 WCHL season was the fourth season for the now defunct Western Canada Hockey League. With the collapse of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association (PCHA), two teams, the Vancouver Maroons and Victoria Cougars joined the WCHL. Six teams played 28 games each. ...more on Wikipedia about "1924-25 WCHL season"
The 1925-26 WHL season was the fifth and last season for the now defunct Western Canada Hockey League (WCHL), which was renamed Western Hockey League (WHL) at the start of the season due to one of its Canadian teams, the Regina Capitals, moving to Portland, Oregon in the United States and being renamed the Portland Rosebuds. Six teams played 30 games, each except for the Rosebuds who played 36. At season's end, some of the teams reorganised to create a semi-pro league called the Prairie Hockey League that lasted for two seasons. The WHL was the last league other than the National Hockey League to contest for the Stanley Cup. ...more on Wikipedia about "1925-26 WHL season"
The Alberni Valley Bulldogs are a team in the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL). They came to the Alberni Valley in 2002 from Burnaby BC, Canada. The Bulldogs Home games are played in the Alberni Valley Multiplex (3737 Roger St). The Team mascot is a large bulldog named Bernie. The Bulldogs Team Colors are red, bronze and black. The Bulldogs are in the Island Division along with Nanaimo Clippers , Cowichan Valley Capitals , Powell River Kings and the Victoria Salsa ("Grizzlies" as of 2006 Season). The Bulldogs 1st ever game in the Alberni Valley was a 4-3 loss to the Nanaimo Clippers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alberni Valley Bulldogs"
Bandy is a winter sport, where a ball is hit with a stick. It is an ancestor of ice hockey. It likely descended from shinty and in turn field hockey. Bandy is played outdoors on a sheet of ice, and has rules that are similar to association football. It is now played in a few nations, including Sweden, Russia, Finland, Norway, Belarus, The Netherlands, Estonia, Hungary, Canada, United States and Kazakhstan. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bandy"
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Field hockey is a popular sport for men and women in many countries around the world. In most countries, especially those in which ice hockey is not very prominent, it is simply known as hockey. ...more on Wikipedia about "Field hockey"
Floorball is an indoor team sport played using composite sticks with a plastic vented blade where the aim is to put a light plastic ball into the opponent's goal. Floorball is most popular in Sweden, Finland and Switzerland, and is also played in several other countries, such as Norway and the Czech Republic. It is gaining popularity in many other places as well, including some countries outside Europe, such as Singapore, Japan, Australia and the United States. ...more on Wikipedia about "Floorball"
In Association Football (soccer), the word goal refers to both the result of a score and the physical structure that defines when a score has occurred. A goal is scored after the game ball passes completely over the goal line, between the goal posts and under the crossbar. Although the goal frame usually has a net attached to it, the net is simply to contain the ball when a goal is scored so that the referee can be certain the goal is legitimate, and the Laws of the Game do not strictly require the use of such a net. The exact definition of a goal is covered by law 10 of the Laws of the Game. A goalkeeper is the player of a team who is set into position to try to block shots into the goal. ...more on Wikipedia about "Goal (sport)"
Hardball Hockey in the United States (often called rink-hockey in other parts of the world under the Roller Hockey umbrella) is one of the three most popular hockey variants and shouldn't be confused with Inline hockey which is also categorized under Roller Hockey unmbrella. Hardball Hockey is highly popular in Latin countries, with Portugal (15 World titles), Spain (11 World titles), Italy (4 World titles) and Argentina (4 World titles), dominating the sport since the early 1940s. Other countries, such as France, Brazil, Germany and Japan are regular international competitors, but rarely win over the "big four". ...more on Wikipedia about "Hardball hockey"
Hockey is any of a family of sports in which two teams compete by trying to maneuver a hard, round disc, ball or hockey puck into the opponent's net or goal, past the goaltender or goalkeeper (often abbreviated goalie), using a hockey stick. ...more on Wikipedia about "Hockey"
Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in Canada and the United States, is a team sport played on ice. It is one of the world's fastest sports, with players on skates capable of going high speeds on natural or artificial ice surfaces. The most prominent ice hockey nations are Canada, Russia, the United States, Sweden, Finland, the Czech Republic, and the Slovak Republic. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ice hockey"
Indoor field hockey is an indoor variant of "traditional" outdoor field hockey. It is not to be confused with other indoor hockey variants such as rink hockey. ...more on Wikipedia about "Indoor field hockey" If you like you could tell us your opinion about shortopedia
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Rink hockey is a rollersport variant of Roller hockey one of the three most popular hockey variants, along with Field hockey and Ice Hockey. It is highly popular in Latin countries, with Portugal (15 World titles), Spain (12 World titles), Italy (4 World titles) and Argentina (4 World titles), dominating the sport since the early 40's. Other countries, such as France, Brazil, Germany and Japan are regular international competitors, but rarely win over the traditional top competitors. Rink hockey is referred to as Hardball Hockey in the United States. Rink Hockey should not be confused with another variant of roller hockey, which is played with inline skates, called Inline Roller Hockey. Inline Hockey uses a different skate, stick, and rules. Both Rink-Hockey and Inline Hockey are rollersport members of Roller hockey. Roller Hockey is governed by the following international rollersport links CIRH and FIRS , or select the National Federation(s) that apply to you National Federations . ...more on Wikipedia about "Rink hockey"
Road hockey, also known as street hockey, dek hockey, or ball hockey is a version of ice hockey (or roller hockey) played without skates. If there is ice on the street it is played with a puck, if there is not it is played with a ball. If a puck is used, for safety the puck usually must not be raised in the air (lifted or reefed). ...more on Wikipedia about "Road hockey"
Roller hockey is a category which includes two rollersports. One rollersport is called Inline hockey, sometimes called Roller Hockey, derived from and very similar to ice hockey using inline skates instead of ice skates. The other rollersport, sometimes called Roller Hockey, uses quad skates and is sometimes called Quad Hockey or International Style Ball hockey, but is mostly known as Rink hockey worldwide or Hardball hockey in the United States. Both are very fast rollersports. Hardball Hockey was a demonstration rollersport in the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. ...more on Wikipedia about "Roller hockey"
Shinny is an informal type of hockey, either on ice or as street hockey. There are no formal rules or specific positions, other than the goaltenders, and the goals themselves may be marked simply by found objects. Bodychecking and lifting or "roofing/reefing the puck" (shooting the puck so it rises above the ice) are often forbidden because the players are not wearing protective equipment. It is often called pick-up hockey. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shinny"
The Shockwave Hockey League, or better known as the SHL, is an ice hockey league situated in North America. The league currently has eight teams. Four in the USA and four in Canada. The headquarters of the league are based in Vancouver. The winning team of the playoffs is awarded the Copplepot Cup. ...more on Wikipedia about "Shockwave hockey league"
Table hockey is a table game derived from ice hockey. The game consists of a representation of a hockey rink on which two players compete by trying to score goals by manipulating, through rods underneath the playing surface, representations of hockey players which can move up and down the "ice" through slots, stickhandle, and shoot. A representation goaltender can also be manipulated by the player. ...more on Wikipedia about "Table hockey"
Tom Pashby OC, MD (Born 1915 - Toronto, Ontario, Died August 24, 2005 - Toronto, Ontario) was an ophthalmologist and advocate of safety in ice hockey in Canada. ...more on Wikipedia about "Tom Pashby"
Underwater hockey (also known as Octopush) is a sport in which two teams compete in a swimming pool to maneuver a puck sliding across the bottom of the pool into the opponent's goal with a short stick of a single material with positive buoyancy. The sport was invented in 1954 by four divers from Southsea, England: John Ventham, Alan Blake, Jack Willis, and Frank Lilleker; substantial changes have occurred in equipment, team size, and other factors to make the game what it is today a world class sport. The forthcoming World Championships in Sheffield (UK) will feature live matches and replays via the UK WORLDS web-site. ...more on Wikipedia about "Underwater hockey"
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