This is in contrast with other sports like Association football and ice hockey, which require the puck or ball to pass completely over the goal line to count as a score.

Hockey is a family of sports in which two teams play against each other by trying to maneuver a ball or a puck into the opponent's goal using a hockey stick.

Ice hockey is played on a large flat area of ice, using a three-inch-diameter ( 76. 2 mm ) vulcanized rubber disc called a puck.

This puck is often frozen before high-level games to decrease the amount of bouncing and friction on the ice.

Based on ice sledge hockey, inline sledge hockey is played to the same rules as inline puck hockey ( essentially ice hockey played off ice using inline skates ) and has been made possible by the design and manufacture of inline sledges by RGK, Europe ’ s premier sports wheelchair maker.

Most of the time, a ball is used instead of a puck, and generally no protective equipment is worn.

* Air hockey is played indoors with a puck on an air-cushion table.

The object of the game is to move a hockey puck from the center of the box out through a hole placed at the end of the box ( known as the goal ).

* Broomball is played on an ice hockey rink, but with a ball instead of a puck and a " broom " ( actually a stick with a small plastic implement on the end ) in place of the ice hockey stick.

* Ringette is an ice hockey variant that was designed for female players ; it uses a straight stick and a rubber ring in place of a puck.

A stick and puck are used as in hockey ( the puck is a softer version called a " sponge puck "), and the same soft-soled shoes used in broomball are worn.

Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use wooden or composite sticks to shoot a hard rubber puck into their opponent's net.

According to the Austin Hockey Association, the word puck is derived from the Scottish Gaelic word " puc " or the Irish word " poc ," meaning to poke, punch or deliver a blow.

The blow given by a hurler to the ball with his caman or hurley is always called a puck.

A cursor ( also called a puck ) is similar to a mouse, except that it has a window with cross hairs for pinpoint placement, and it can have as many as 16 buttons.

* Similar to a mouse is a puck, which, rather than tracking the speed of the device, tracks the absolute position of a point on the device ( typically a set of crosshairs painted on a transparent plastic tab sticking out from the top of the puck ).

For example, if a spectator at an ice hockey match is injured when a player strikes the puck in the ordinary course of play, causing it to fly out of the rink and hit him or her, this is a foreseeable event and spectators are assumed to accept that risk of injury when buying a ticket.

: Me: ‘ To where the puck is going, not where it's been .’

The goal is to send the puck into the opposing team's net.

In more recent times, the figure of Robin Goodfellow is identified as a puck.

At the Edmonton Oilers skills competition, held November 26, 2006, he recorded his second straight victory in the hardest shot competition with a puck speed of 103. 5 mph ( approximately 165 km / h ).

The crystals ( each about the size of a hockey puck ) are cooled to about 50 mK.

For the 2004-05 American Hockey League season, four major rule changes were made that were intended to increase the scoring in games and make it more popular among casual fans -- ( 1 ) increasing the size of the attack zones by narrowing the neutral zone two feet each side and thus moving the goal line back two feet, ( 2 ) restrictions on the goaltender playing the puck, ( 3 ) permitting offside players to negate the penalty by " tagging up " with the blue line, and ( 4 ) changing the offside rule by permitting passes which cross the center line and one blue line ( but not between both blue lines in certain restrictions ).

Bubble Tape comes in a small, round, plastic container similar in size to a hockey puck.

Any object about the right size might serve as a puck.

In recent years, the low scores of NHL games have prompted the league to debate a wide variety of rule change proposals including enlarging the size of the goal, widening the blue and red lines to create a larger offensive zone, restricting where goaltenders can handle the puck, breaking ties with a penalty shot shootout, and eliminating the two-line pass rule, which does not exist in international and most amateur rulebooks.

During his time with New York, Malík was criticized for his lack of physical play, despite his size, as well as his risky decision-making with the puck.

Unlike sports like Association football and ice hockey which require the puck or ball to pass completely over the goal line to count as a score, both Canadian and American football just merely need the nose of the ball to break the vertical plane of the outer edge of the goal line.

Five members of each team skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team.

The games of British soldiers and immigrants to Canada, influenced by stick-and-ball games of First Nations, may have influenced the game to be played on ice skates, often played with a puck, and played with sticks made by the Mi ' kmaq of Nova Scotia.

* Ice hockey – a team sport played on the ice with skates, sticks, and a puck.

In this series, which was the first ever coast-to-coast Stanley Cup Final, Bossy, upended by a check from Tiger Williams and falling parallel to the ice, managed to hook the puck with his stick and score.

Similarly, in ice hockey an AR colored trail showed location and direction of the puck, but was dismissed by hockey purists.

One example is the Fox-Trax system, used to highlight the location of a hard-to-see hockey puck as it moves rapidly across the ice, but AR is also applied to annotate racing cars, snooker ball trajectories, life performances, etc.

Another ice hockey player, goaltender Bill Durnan, was nicknamed " Dr. Strangeglove " for his ability to catch the puck with either hand.

One game during a time-out, Neilson told his goaltender, “... when we pull you, just leave your goal stick lying in the crease .” When the other team gained possession, they sent the puck the length of the ice toward the open net, only to deflect wide when it hit the goal stick lying in the crease.

A hockey stick is a piece of equipment used in field hockey, ice hockey or roller hockey to move the ball or puck.

On April 17, 1997, in the first game of a first-round playoff matchup against the Montreal Canadiens, Brodeur fired the puck the length of the ice and into the Canadiens ' empty net to ensure a 5 – 2 victory.

During the 1999 – 2000 season, on February 15, 2000, Brodeur was credited with his second career goal, as Brodeur was the last Devils player on the ice to touch the puck before Daymond Langkow of the Philadelphia Flyers accidentally put the puck into his own empty net during a delayed penalty call against the Devils.

* Pass ( ice hockey ), the movement of the puck from one player to another

Drills included skating around Javex bleach bottles and tin cans, and flipping pucks over scattered hockey sticks to be able to pick up the puck again in full flight.

External " hockey puck " type antennas used with Iridium handheld phones, data modems and SBD terminals are usually defined as 3dBi gain, 50 ohm impedance with RHCP ( right hand circular polarization ) and 1. 5: 1 VSWR.

A standard hockey puck

* Underwater hockey: A competitive team-sport played in swimming pools using snorkelling equipment, sticks and a puck.

The Colorado Avalanche logo is composed by a burgundy letter A with snow wrapped around, similar to an avalanche, in the shape of the letter C. There is a hockey puck in the lower – right end of the snow and a blue oval on the background.