The city has facilities for field hockey ( the Hockey Club of Pakistan, UBL Hockey Ground ), boxing ( KPT Sports Complex ), squash ( Jahangir Khan Squash Complex ), and polo.

* 1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada ; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.

Pepsi has official sponsorship deals with three of the four major North American professional sports leagues: the National Football League, National Hockey League and Major League Baseball.

The Roller Hockey ( Inline ) Goalie uses a Glove, called a catcher, to catch the shot on goal, he also has a flat, usually square, mit which is used to deflect the shot this is called a blocker.

Roller Hockey is the overarching name for a rollersport that has existed long before inline skates were " re-invented " in the 70s ( They were actually invented before quads, in the 1760s ).

Roller Hockey has been played on quad skates, in sixty countries worldwide and so has many names worldwide.

Blatter has had a long and varied career, including posts such as Head of Public Relations of the Valaisan Tourist Board in his native Switzerland, as well as General Secretary of the Swiss Ice Hockey Federation.

The men's hockey team competes in Division I as a member of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association ( WCHA ), and has won three national championships.

* Jason X ( 2002 ), Hockey has been outlawed this year.

Aided by AstroTurf facilities on Masters ' field, Field Hockey has become a major Lent Half sport.

Hockey Night in Canada has its origins in the General Motors Hockey Broadcast which transmitted Saturday night hockey games of the Toronto Maple Leafs beginning in November 1931 over the Canadian National Railway radio network.

For their success in the 1980s, the Oilers team of this era has been honoured with dynasty status by the Hockey Hall of Fame.

Minnesota has two minor-league affiliates, the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League and the Orlando Solar Bears of the ECHL.

The Hall of Fame has been criticized for focusing mainly on players from the National Hockey League and largely ignoring players from other North American and international leagues.

The Hockey Hall of Fame has 15 exhibit areas covering.

The Hall of Fame has also been criticised for failing to induct international players and critics have claimed that the Hall has been far too focused on the National Hockey League.

The Hall of Fame has also been criticised for overlooking World Hockey Association players and over representing the Original Six era from 1942 to 1967.

This marked the farthest they had gone in the post-season in school history and the longest an Atlantic Hockey Association team has made it into the post-season.

RIT has 24 men's and women's varsity teams including Men's Intercollegiate Baseball, Basketball, Crew, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field and Wrestling along with Women's Intercollegiate Basketball, Cheerleading, Crew, Cross Country, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse, Soccer, Softball, Swimming & Diving, Tennis, Track & Field, and Volleyball.

This led to the International Federation of Women's Hockey Associations ( IFWHA ) in 1927, though this did not include many continental European countries where women played as sections of men's associations and were affiliated to the FIH.

For example, in England, the England Hockey reports that as of the 2008 – 09 season there were 2488 registered men's teams, 1969 women's teams, 1042 boys ' teams, 966 girls ' teams and 274 mixed teams.

Kidderminster Hockey club was founded in 1892 and in 2010 there are five men's hockey teams, a ladies team and a junior team.

The men's tournament marked the second Olympic Games to feature National Hockey League players in history.

Most teams are in the Mountain West Conference ; however, the gymnastics teams and men's soccer teams compete in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation ; the men's hockey team competes in Atlantic Hockey and the water polo team competes in the Western Water Polo Association.

The men's ice hockey team won the last two Atlantic Hockey conference tournaments, made the first ever appearance by a service academy in the NCAA hockey tournament in 2007, and made a repeat appearance in 2008.

In 2010, the men's ice hockey team was the first ever from the Atlantic Hockey conference to reach the NCAA tournament semi-finals: The Frozen Four.

* Roller Hockey Bundesliga ( founded 1920 ), men's roller hockey

The men's and women's hockey teams are both members of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association ( WCHA ).

In December 2010 Exeter College Hockey Team, under the leadership of James Hunter, won the men's intra-university premier division and will compete on 8 March 2011 in the College Varsity Match against St Catharine's College, Cambridge at Southgate HC, London.

The men's hockey team competes in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

Colorado College competes at the NCAA Division III level in all sports except men's hockey, in which it participates in the NCAA Division I Western Collegiate Hockey Association, and women's soccer, where it competes as an NCAA Division I team in Conference USA.

In 2007, SUNY Oswego Lakers men's hockey team won the NCAA Division III Ice Hockey Championship.

Holcombe Hockey Club is also nearby, with men's 1st part of the England National Hockey League for a number of years.

Saint John's University sportsmen compete in men's intercollegiate Baseball, Basketball, Cross Country, Wrestling, Football, Golf, Soccer, Ice Hockey, Swimming and Diving, Tennis, and Track and Field.

Ferris State offers an intercollegiate athletic program which includes 14 men ’ s and women ’ s sports at the NCAA Division II level, except for men's ice hockey which competes in NCAA Division I. Ferris States is a member of the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference ( GLIAC ) in all sports except ice hockey, in which the team is part of the Central Collegiate Hockey Association.

The Ice Hockey World Championships are an annual men's ice hockey tournament organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ).

Federko was the head coach / general manager of the St. Louis Vipers InLine team of the Roller Hockey International for the 1993 and 1994 seasons.

His sportscasting career started while attending Syracuse University, as an announcer for the Syracuse Blazers minor-league hockey team playing in the Eastern Hockey League and North American Hockey League.

* Columbus Blue Jackets, National Hockey League team

* Columbus Cottonmouths, Southern Professional Hockey League team

* Cape Breton Crush, former team of the defunct Canadian Elite Hockey League

* Cape Breton Oilers, former team of the American Hockey League

* Cape Breton Screaming Eagles, current team in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League

Following the 1926 Stanley Cup playoffs, during which the Western Hockey League was widely reported to be on the verge of folding, the NHL held a meeting on April 17 to consider applications for expansion franchises, at which it was reported that five different groups sought a team for Detroit.

Tragedy struck the organization and the rest of the National Hockey League upon the 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl air disaster, which claimed the lives of former Red Wings assistant coach Brad McCrimmon and defenseman Ruslan Salei, who had joined the KHL team during the summer.

The club play their home games at the Murrayfield Ice Rink and compete in the ten team professional Elite Ice Hockey League along with three other Scottish teams which are the Fife Flyers, Braehead Clan and the Dundee Stars.

The Edinburgh Capitals is an ice hockey team playing in the Elite Ice Hockey League since the 2005 / 2006 season.

* 1980 – The United States Olympic Hockey team completes their Miracle on Ice by defeating Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal.

It continues to be awarded today to the National Hockey League's championship team.

Several pro, minor, college and high school sport teams have named themselves after the species, with the Pittsburgh Penguins team in the National Hockey League and the Youngstown State Penguins being the most recognizable.

* 11-Herb Brooks, 66, coach of 1980 Miracle on Ice US Hockey team.

* Rochester Americans or Amerks, an American Hockey League team

The club hockey team achieved success in 2006-07, winning the Upstate New York Collegiate Hockey League championship.

* 2011 – A plane crash in Russia kills 43 people, including nearly the entire roster of the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl Kontinental Hockey League team.