Facts Messier comes face to face with Gretzky Hockey is a sport established in Canada around the 18th century. Today, hockey is played in many parts of the world. Hockey is now very popular in Sweden, Russia, Canada, U.S.A., Scandinavia, and most recently, in Japan. It is the national sport of Canada.
Hockey is a very rough, fast-paced game that comes with all kinds of actions.
Hockey is played on ice, for the people who don't already know, in an ice arena or rink. In hockey, each team can have no more than six players on the ice at the same time. One of the six players is the goaltender, who covers the net and tries to keep the puck from entering the net. As for the positions of the five other players, one is the center, two are the forwards, and two are the defencemen. Each player plays with a pair of skates, protective pads under the clothing, thick gloves, a helmet, and the most important of all, a stick with a shaft no longer than 152 cm. long.