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Ice hockey

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'''Hockey''', or ice hockey (as opposed to [[field hockey]] and [[road street hockey]]), is a game team sport played by on an ice rink. The object of the game is to get a puck into the opposing teams goal(net). The game consists of six players three twenty minute periods. Each team comsists made up of six players; three forwards, two defensemen, and a goaltender, or (goalie. The players skate on a sheet of ice and attempt to shoot a hard rubber projectile called a puck into the opposing team's goal, or net).
The sport is popular in [[Canada]], [[Europe]] (notably [[Sweden]], the [[Czech Republic]], [[Slovakia]], [[Russia]] and [[Finland]]) and some parts of the [[United States]] (notably [[Minnesota]] and the [[East Coast]] region).
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