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What is the difference between a Body Check and Woman's Body Check?
This image is from the Sochi Winter Olympics:
Why is Women Body Checking different from a regular Body Check?
I mean, pretty sure not every penalty was preceded by Women's in the match (like Women ...
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What's the English term for this double-elimination tournament variant?
I was looking at rules for a double-elimination tournament but it seems that I growned up where double-elimination tournaments are totally different from the rest of the planet.
The double-...
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Consensus on the goalie 'hole' numbering in Hockey?
In ice hockey, it seems fairly well agreed upon that there are 5 main 'holes' to aim for when shooting on the net. Upper left, lower left, upper right, lower right, and between the goalie's legs.
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What is a healthy scratch?
NHL announcers constantly mention it, and I've seen some news articles online referring to players who used to be / are a healthy scratch.
What is a healthy scratch?
I didn't find anything on Google'...
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What is meant by a natural hat trick in hockey?
While reading this article on NHL.com I noticed that they mentioned several times that Jori Lehtera recorded a natural hat trick.
I assume they say natural hat trick to contrast it to another type of ...
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What does it mean to rebuild a team?
I've heard a lot of people say (insert American sports team) needs a rebuild. It's usually said when a team is on a bad run or has one or two bad season, and I've only ever heard people say it ...
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Do Ice Hockey commentators say score or scores?
Is it actually called a goal or do they call it a score and therefore shouting "score!" is like shouting "goal!" in football?
Or do they shout "scores!" as in scores a goal/point?
Is either ...
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Is "The Blues" a nickname for the St. Louis Blues [closed]
I'm not sure how this came up, but there was some discussion as to whether or not is it acceptable to refer to 'The Blues' as St. Louis hockey team's nickname?
Specifically: "is it acceptable for ...
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