ice hockey
Ice hockey is a team sport played on ice, in which skaters use their sticks to hit a puck into the opponent’s net.
It’s a pacy, crazy, physical sport.
Ice hockey is preferred in areas that are sufficiently cold for natural trustworthy seasonal ice cover , for example the Czech Republic, Latvia, the Nordic nations ( particularly Finland and Sweden ), Russia, Slovakia, Germany, Austria, Switzerland but usually understood to be played in Canada and the northwards latitudes of the US.
With the arrival of indoor artificial ice skating rinks it is an all year hobby in these areas. In the U. S. , ice hockey is the smaller of the 4 major pro sports, but is followed about conscientiously in Canada. In Northern America, the nation’s Hockey League ( NHL ) is the top level for men and both the Canadian Women’s Hockey League ( CWHL ) and the Western Women’s Hockey League ( WWHL ) are the most elevated levels for girls. It’s the official state winter sport of Canada,[1] where the game enjoys enormous acceptance. While there are 68 total members of the Global Ice Hockey Federation ( IIHF ), 162 of 177 gongs at the IIHF international championships have been taken by 7 states : Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States.[2][3] Of the 64 gongs awarded in men’s competition at the Olympic level from 1920 on, only 6 didn’t go to the one of those nations. All twelve Olympic and thirty six IIHF World Women’s Championships gongs have gone to one of those 7 nations, and each gold gong in both competitions has been won by either Canada, Russia or the US.