”Jääkiekko” in finnish
The most played sports in Finland
Some famous finnish ice hockey players:
Teemu Selänne, Saku Koivu and Miikka
Kiprusoff
Originally developed in the eastern parts of
Canada in the mid-1800s
Modern hockey were founded in 1870s
The first official match was played in 1875
where Creighton's McGill’s team won Fred
Torrence's Victoria team.
The first ice hockey rules were published in
1877 by the Montreal Gazette
Two teams faces each other in a hockey match
A team consists 22 players (20 players and 2
goalkeepers) and the management team
Each team has one goalkeeper and five players
(three offensive and two defensive) on the field at
a time
There are 16 people on the ice at the same time,
4 referees, 10 players and 2 goalkeepers.
Each team tries to score a goal to the opposite
teams goal and at the same time to prevent the
opposite team to score to their own goal
If a player crosses the blue line before the
puck when attacking it is considered as
offside and the lineman blows the play dead.
After this the faceoff conducted in the neutral
zone closest to where the offside was.
If a player shoots the puck across at least two
red lines without anyone touching it between
them it is considered as icing. The play is
blown dead and it is resumed with a faceoff
in the defending zone of the team that
committed the infraction.
The match is played in three periods of 20
minutes
The team that scores the most goals wins
If the match doesn’t have a winner after 60
minutes there will be an overtime of 10 minutes.
If the match still doesn’t have a winner there will
be a winning goal shootout based on rules: each
team needs to choose three players to try to
score a goal in the best of three (i.e. 3-2, 2-1)
after this the shootout continues with sudden
death rules if neither team has yet won