A big difference is that the hockey goal is much smaller. In baseball, that person is the pitcher. In hockey, it is the goaltender who, if he is at his best, can win a game almost single-handedly. The basics, at least, are simple. Each team gets six players on the ice, one who defends the goal, the rest who skate up and down the ice using curved sticks to move the hard rubber puck.
All goals count the same.
Play is divided into three 20-minute periods. The team that finishes with the most goals wins. There is, of course, a lot more to it than that. Copyright 1995-2001, The Advocate, Capital City Press, All Rights Reserved.