Hockey 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Ice Hockey

While our site is geared towards the advanced hockey fan we realize that the Game is growing at a great rate. With many newcomers to hockey we thought it’d be a good idea to explain some of the rules of hockey, go over some of the equipment and in general, create a Hockey 101 type guide or introduction for those wanting to dive in.

Hockey Basics

• Hockey Player Lingo
• Entry Level overview of the game of hockey
• Hockey team rosters
• All About the Ice Hockey Rink
• Who Invented Hockey

(Bruce Fedyck-USA TODAY Sports)

Hockey Rules

• The Faceoff
• Icing in Hockey
• Offsides
• Minor Infractions with No Penalty
• Fighting
• The Different Types of Penalties
  • Boarding & Charging
  • Cross Checking
  • Delay of Game
  • High Sticking
  • Holding & Holding the Stick
  • Hooking
  • Interference
  • Roughing
  • Throwing the Stick
  • Too Many Men on the Ice
  • Tripping
  • Unsportsmanlike Conduct
• Changes For The 2015-16 Season

Hockey Equipment

• The basics, all the equipment you would need to play hockey
• The Hockey Stick – all the details

 The NHL

• A List of all current and former NHL teams
• Index of our NHL stories, with many features on players & teams

*  we have sections on all the NHL teams via the Menu above

Hockey 201: Advanced Statistics

• Explaining Corsi
• Score Situations and Team Strength
• Fenwick, Corsi’s Little Brother
• PDO, A Predictor Of Success?
• Hextally and Adjusted Save Percentage
• Zone Starts and Who to Trust Under Pressure