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Roller hockey is a form of hockey played on a dry surface using wheeled skates. It can be played with traditional roller skates (quad skates) or with inline skates and use either a ball or puck. Combined, roller hockey is played in nearly 60 countries worldwide. [1] [2] [3] There are three major variants of organized roller hockey.
Roller hockey was referred to as hardball hockey in the United States until November 2008 when the USOC adopted the sport's more common name, rink hockey.Other names for the sport include hardball roller hockey, ball hockey, international style ball hockey, international hockey, quad hockey, hockey, English roller hockey, hockey skids, traditional roller hockey, cane hockey, rollhockey, and ...
Inline hockey or roller hockey is a variant of hockey played on a hard, smooth surface, with players using inline skates to move and ice hockey sticks to shoot a hard, plastic puck into their opponent's goal to score points. [1] The sport is a very fast-paced and free-flowing game and is considered a contact sport, but body checking is prohibited.
Roller hockey was a demonstration sport at the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympics. Street hockey ... 3 x 20 minutes 2 x 20 minutes 2 x 25 minutes Clock stoppage No Yes
Each National Collegiate Roller Hockey Association game is played between two teams, 4 skaters aside, and is 36 minutes long. The game is composed of three 12–stopped clock periods with an intermission of one–minute between periods.
Each Major League Roller Hockey PRO regulation game is played between two teams and is 34 minutes long. The game is composed of two 17-minute halves with an intermission of either one minute between the halves. At the end of the 35-minute regulation time, the team with the most goals wins the game.
The 2024 Men's Roller Hockey World Cup was the 46th edition of the Roller Hockey World Cup, organised by World Skate. The tournament was held in Italy , in the city of Novara , [ 1 ] as part of the 2024 World Skate Games .
The WSE Continental Cup is an annual roller hockey match organised by the World Skate Europe - Rink Hockey since 1980, and contested by the winners of the top two European club competitions, the WSE Champions League (1st tier) and the WSE Cup (2nd tier).