Learning to Play the Game
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Foundation

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How to read the pictures, what everything is called, what is legal, and the words you shout. The canonical references the rest of the corpus links back to.

The 5 documents in this section

Reading Ice Hockey DiagramsIn a rink diagram a circle is a forward and a triangle is a defenceman, while an open glyph is your own team and a solid one the opposition.Rink Map and GlossaryHockey's vocabulary is spatial: almost every instruction you will ever be given on the ice is a location plus a reason.Rules PrimerFind out which rulebook your league plays under before your first game, because the books disagree, and one of the disagreements can cost you the rest of the match.UK and England RulesIf you play in Britain, your rule book is the IIHF's. Every level of the game here runs on it — the National Ice Hockey League, the recreational and junior game across England, Wales,…On-Ice CommunicationThe player with the puck is the least informed player on the ice, and everyone else can see what they cannot.

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  author  = {James Bloom},
  title   = {Foundation},
  howpublished = {Learning to Play the Game},
  url     = {https://learn-ice-hockey.com/foundation/},
  note    = {Licensed CC BY-NC 4.0}
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