what does the term "wheel house" mean in ice hockey?
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"In is his wheel house" is a slang term that means the puck is right where the shooter can get maximum power out of the slapshot. It comes from the old power plants and mills that used giant wheels on the side of a "house" or building to turn machinery or generate power. Imagine the wheel as the shooter's arm and stick and the house as his body. To put the puck in his "wheel house," the passer wants to get the puck close to the shooter's feet, in line with his shoulders, so that the shooter can drive through it with all his strength and all the added leverage from the stick.
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Top shelf: high in the net, right below the crossbar\nFive hole: the space b/w the goalie's legs\nback hand: to carry the puck on the outside of the stick (not cradled in the curve)
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The scoring area is comprised of concentric rings called the 'house'.  The center circle of the house (or the bullseye) is called the 'button'.  The point at which the lines cross in the middle of the button is called the 'tee'.
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Question is too broad.\n\nMuscles work no differently in ice hockey than any other time they are in use.  Muscles contract and relax based on chemical reactions within your body and your brain communicating what needs to happen when.  Practice allows your brain and muscles to learn what actions they need to take when to perform any task.
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+/- is easy.\n\nIf you're on the ice when your team scores, you get a +1\n\nIf you're on the ice when the other team scores, you get a -1\n\nThe only EXCEPTION is if you or the other team has a power play, in which no one gets + or -.
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Philadelphia Phantoms vs. Chicago Wolves during the 2004-05 Calder Cup playoffs. Can't remember the players but a Phantom checked a Wolves forward into the bench area. The player landed backwards.\n\nTechnically, anything the "Mites on Ice" do is funny too.
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Icing is when a player from the offensive team controls the puck before reaching the center ice line.  He shoots the puck all the way down behind the opposite goal WITHOUT anybody on the defending team being able to play the puck prior to crossing the goal line.  Often, the linesmen will wave off the icing if the player is within 2 feet of the center line prior to dumping the puck.  Also, an icing can only be called when the offensive team is either on the powerplay or at an even strength situation.  The puck then goes either to the left or right of the goaltender of the team who shot the puck depending on which side of the rink the puck was touched up on.\n\nAn offside is when a player controls the puck completely crosses the blue line after another offensive player completely crosses it.  If the player doesn't have control of the puck when it crosses the blue line, it is a delayed offside.  All offensive players must then touch up at the blue line at the same time before going back into the offensive zone and playing the puck.  Play is only stopped on a delayed offside when an offensive player makes contact with the puck before all teammates touched up at the same time prior to contact.  If an offside is called, the puck is dropped at one of the two blue circles next to the blue line, again depending on which side of the ice the offsides occured on.
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Its a hazing technique where the freshmen have 2 skate around naked on the ice-rink with obscineties and other funny and humiliating comments written on their bodies and the senoirs of the fraternity get to try to "JAM" something(like a broom handle or adult toy....etc) into certain areas....lol\n\nThey basically get sodamized!lol\n\n♥
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couple things that i noticed from others answers that are wrong...  Icing is not when the puck goes past the opposing players blue line and then past the goal line (which passes from side to side across the front of the goal).  Icing is when the puck is shot from behind the red line (center ice) without being touched and then passes the line that extends across the ice from side to side at the goal, (goal line).  If the puck is moving slow and barely crosses the line, the Icing is waived off by the official.  Or if the goaltender comes out of his goal crease (blue area directly in front of the net) whether he makes a play on the puck or not, the icing is waived off.  I'd also like to note that Overtime is not 20 mins, it is 5mins during the regular season in which whoever scores first, wins (sudden death).  There is no such thing as a tie anymore.  During the regular season, if the game is tied after 3 periods, they go to a 5 min sudden death overtime.  If it's still tied after the overtime, the teams go to a shootout in which 3 members from each team get an individual breakaway shot (1 on 1) with the goaltender.  whichever team scores the most out of the 3 shootout chances wins.  if they both score the same ammount out of their three chances then the shootout continues, 1 person at a time, from each team, until 1 team scores and the other does not.  for the playoffs, overtime is 20 mins and it's a sudden death.  If nobody scores, then they go to another overtime of 20 mins, and they will continue to do so until 1 team scores.  there is also a such thing as a double minor penalty, which the player is assessed 4 mins instead of the reg 2 for a minor penalty.  also, a new rule that they incorporated this season is that if a player gets into a fight within the last 5 mins of regulation (3rd period) then he is assessed a 10 min penalty (essentially the rest of the game) plus a 1 game misconduct, which means he's not playing at all in the next game.  a hand pass is when a player passes the puck with his hand, to another player.  a hand pass is allowed, but only in yr own (defensive) zone (from the blue line, back toward the goaltender).  you are not allowed to handpass in the neutral zone (from blue line, past center ice to the other blue line) or the offensive zone (blue line of opposing teams goaltender side toward their goaltender).  Yr not allowed to play with broken equipment.  for example, if the stick cracks but does not break completely, and you continue to play with it.  it's a penalty.  there's so many rules to the game.  So, I'll tell ya what.  whatever u wanna know, just click on my avatar and send me an email and I'll help ya out.  I could go on forever with this answer cause there's so many rules, that most people don't even know about.  I just get boared at work and read the NHL rulebook a lot.  if you want, you can check it out at NHL.com and just click on the quicklink for rules.  pretty interesting...
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I believe it stood for Canadian Hockey Club
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You need to define popularity. If you are going by number of nations who play, then most likely field hockey. If you are going by number of players worldwide, then probably field hockey as well. If you are going by television ratings, then probably Ice Hockey. \n\nFinally, if you say Hockey outside North America, it means FIELD hockey not ice hockey. I was on a field hockey tour in the Caribbean and we were trying to find out the NHL playoff scores (pre-internet) and confused everyone by asking for hockey scores (we got them, the local field hockey league scores).
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PIM: Penalties in minutes. 2 minutes for a minor, 4 for a double-minor, 5 for a major, 10 for a misconduct.\n\nPPG: Power-play goal. Scored when your team has one (or two) more player(s) on the ice than the other team.\n\nSHG: Shorthanded goal. Scored when your team has one (or two) fewer player(s) on the ice than the other team.\n\n+/- ("Plus/Minus"): A player receives a plus if he is on the ice when his team scores an even-strength or shorthanded goal. He receives a minus if he is on the ice when his team concedes an even-strength or shorthanded goal. (Power play goals do not affect plus-minus). Thus, it is used as a ratio of offense-to-defense in a very general sort of way for every player, independently of goals and assists.\n\nGWG: Game-winning goal. The goal which proves to be the difference-maker (even if it wasn't at the time. i.e. If you score a goal to make it 2-0 for your team, then the other team scores one more before the game is over, yours is considered to be the game-winning goal).\n\nFor goaltenders:\n\nGAA: Goals-against average. Goals surrendered by a goaltender on average for every 60 minutes he plays.\n\nSPCT: Save percentage. A simple ratio of saves made per shot faced. (Not actually a percentage... usually expressed like .897 or .912)\n\nSO: Shutouts. Games completed where no goal is surrendered.
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Sure, if you let me wear my dirty shoes in your home.  \n\nIf not, show the same courtesy to the rink owners you would demand from your visitors.  You can either buy a second set of roller blades, or buy extra wheels for indoors and change them.
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Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary\n\nhockey\n4 entries found for hockey.\nTo select an entry, click on it.\n \nMain Entry: hock·ey\nPronunciation: 'hä-kE\nFunction: noun\nEtymology: perhaps from Middle French hoquet shepherd's crook, diminutive of hoc hook, of Germanic origin; akin to Old English hOc hook\n\nIn other words, more than likely derived from the Old English word for hook "hoc," or Middle French for shepard's crook "hoquet."
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Rule 79. Puck Must Be Kept in Motion\n\n(a) The puck must be kept in motion at all times.\n(b) A minor penalty shall be imposed on any player, including the goalkeeper, who holds, freezes or plays the puck with his stick, skates or body in such a manner as to\ndeliberately cause a stoppage of play. \n\n(NOTE 1) With regard to a goalkeeper, this Rule applies outside of his goal crease area.\n\n(NOTE 2) If a goalkeeper comes out of his crease to “cut down the angle” on a shot and after making the save covers the puck, this shall be legal. If the goalkeeper races out of his crease in an attempt to beat the attacking player to the puck and instead of playing the puck jumps on the puck\ncausing a stoppage of play, this shall be a minor penalty for Delay of Game.\n\n(NOTE 3) The overall intent of this rule is to keep the play going.
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When the opposing team has a player in the penalty box... the team at full strength has the "power play".  Since they have one more player on the ice, that gives them a better chance to score.  The team with one less player (sometimes 2 if there are 2 in the penalty box) is in what is refered to as the "penalty kill" since they are trying to kill the time on the clock with out letting the other team score.  If a team scores during the power play, the player in the penalty box gets to come out even if his time is not up yet.
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There is geometry involved in the patterns of the skates on the ice.  Physics involves math...the amount of friction and motion over the ice.