What is artificial ice in hockey?
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they freeze the water artificially.  ie; there's cooling equipment under the ice, so it doesn't have to be below freezing in the arena.
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you slide a weight on the ice, kind of like team shuffleboard on ice skates with a 50-pound puck, and people doing a lot of silly things like sweeping the ice in front of the puck to make it slide better.  Canadians and Scots love it.  Google it.
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Thats not totally true. There is a rink down in southwest florida that has the best ice, or close to the best, in the ECHL. It has also been said that they have better ice than many NHL buildings. They also host numerous non-ice events each year and are home to a NBDL team and an arena football team. It's true that it does make for worse ice conditions but by proper maintance it can be fixed. The worst ice in the NHL is Madison Square Garden. Also keep in mind that some teams want different ice conditions based on who they're playing. When Chicago plays Detroit in Chicago, they soften the ice so it is slower. It gives them an advantage over the faster Detroit team.
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go to wikipedia.com and in the search area type ice hockey press enter and u will get your answers.it will tell u all about ice hockey
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its used to smooth and ice surface for sports and entertainment, mainly hockey and figure skating.
1048218
By real players you mean players who think they're playing hockey?  Soccer has rules against fouls (checking).  If "real" players can't handle them, maybe they should get some ice skates.
149656
HOCKEY!!!  It's violent.
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Most historians place the roots of hockey in the chilly climes of northern Europe, specifically Great Britain and France, where field hockey was a popular summer sport more than 500 years ago. When the ponds and lakes froze in winter, it was not unusual for the athletes who fancied that sport to play a version of it on ice.\n\nNot surprisingly, the earliest North American games were played in Canada. British soldiers stationed in Halifax, Nova Scotia, were reported to have organized contests on frozen ponds in and around that city in the 1870s, and about that same time in Montreal students from McGill University began facing off against each other in a downtown ice rink. The continent's first hockey league was said to have been launched in Kingston, Ontario, in 1885, and it included four teams.\n\n\n\ninfo from: http://www.nhl.com/hockeyu/history/evolution.html
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What the Puck! wear a helmet even if your own the bench, and no yellow ice please, enjoy
849757
Ice Hockey. One of the fastest moving exciting sports.....
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Very Simply, Hockey is a game placed on the ice (though roller and deck hockey can also be played). A team can suit up 20 players for a game and each team places 6 players on the ice at a time:\n1 Goaltender (who has the job of defending a goal), 2 defensemen, 2 fowards (Left Wing and right wing), and 1 center ice man. Players can come in and out of the lineup on the fly as often as they like.\n\nThere are 3 twenty minute periods in a hockey game followed by a 5 minute sudden death OT if required. If the teams are still tied at the end of OT , they have what is known as a shootout - where players take alternating breakaway shots at the opposing goaltender.\n\nWhichever team scores the most goals wins (each goal is worth a single point). \n\nPlayers are allowed, and in fact are encouraged to use physical contact, called checking, while playing the game. Players are not permitted to hold, grab, use their stick to obstruct or check a player that does not have the puck. If they do so they will get a penalty which is typically 2 minutes (though can be 5 minutes for fighting or a major intent to injure penalty). During that time, his team plays shorthanded with one less player as he serves his penalty.
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Hockey pucks are frozen to keep them more stable on the ice.  When they're frozen they bounce, wobble, skitter and skip less.
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Not hard at all geezer if there is an ice rink near to you then all you have to do is go down and ask at the main desk most ice rinks have a quite established league and are always looking for new people to join in. If they cant give you an answer there is always the local show off on the ice who more than likely plays hockey just ask him
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The figure skate has a set of teeth on the front, which allows you to "dig" into the ice and do all sorts of jumps and pirouettes. The back of the blade on the skate is not closed: it sticks out past the heel. This allows you to glide a little better.\n\nChances are, if you can skate on figure skates, you will be OK with hockey skates. Just learn how to stop as soon as you can ;-)
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ICE IS ICE. FROZEN WATER. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS FAKE ICE
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As opposed to artificial?
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They use a fine mist spray and build the ice up a fraction of an inch at a time.  It is time consuming but works really well.