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These are the five rules you need to know:
1. Icing: You can’t shoot the puck down the ice
2. Offside: Don’t cross the offensive blue line before the puck
3. Change on the Fly: Making substitutions while the game is on
4. Faceoffs: Starting the game after a stoppage in play
5. Penalty: The 5 types of penalties that will punish your team
Hall of Famer Brendan Shanahan about the game of hockey:
Is hockey hard? I don’t know, you tell me. We need to have the strength and power of a football player, the stamina of a marathon runner, and the concentration of a brain surgeon. But we need to put all this together while moving at high speeds on a cold and slippery surface while 5 other guys use clubs to try and kill us. Oh yeah, did I mention that this whole time we’re standing on blades 1/8 of an inch thick? Is ice hockey hard? I don’t know, you tell me. Next question.
These are the five positions you need to know:
1. Goalie: The hardest position to play
2. Center: Plays forward in the middle of the ice
3. Winger: Plays forward along the sides
4. Defensemen: Two defensemen responsible for protecting the net and moving the puck to the forwards
When a penalty happens your team is either on the:
1. Power Play: Team has more players on the ice creating an offensive advantage
2. Penalty Kill: Team loses a player for the penalty and is at a disadvantage
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