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Ice hockey wiki
Dear visitor, welcome to the Ice Hockey Wiki. As its name suggests, this wiki is dedicated to ice hockey. But what is this? Ice hockey is a fast and exciting team sport played on a specifically designed rink. The goal of the game is very simple: the players, two defencemen and three forwards per side, must score goals in the opposing team's net, located at the other end of the ice and protected by a goaltender. Instead of shoes, each player wears a pair of skates to move around the rink. In order to score goals, they must send a vulcanized rubber disc called puck in the aforementioned net using a specially designed stick. The game originates from Canada and has spread all around the world. If you want to learn more about this sport that passionates us to the point of dedicating ourselves to a wiki, then you've come to the right place. Please take a look around, read a bit, and, if you have knowledge we still miss, feel totally free to add it by editing our articles or creating new ones!
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Championships
Every country where hockey is played has some kind of a national championship. In some cases, such as National Hockey League or Continental Hockey League, the championship is that of a league comprising more than one nation; in many other cases, it is a multi-level system, with one top league and one or several lower divisions between which a system of promotion and relegation exists.
Here are some of the strongest leagues worldwide:
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: Elitserien
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: SM-Liiga
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: Deutsche Eishockey Liga
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: National League A
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: Czech Extraliga
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: Slovak Extraliga
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International competitions
Major International competitions in ice hockey are sanctioned by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). This federation has 64 members and takes care of organizing the ice hockey events during the Olympic Games, the World Championships and several other competitions such as the European Champions Cup, the European Women's Champions Cup, the Continental Cup, the Champions Hockey League and the Victoria Cup. Its main aim is to help foster the development of the game worldwide; it also is the governing body of all the member nations' National Federations.
Several other major competitions are not ruled by the IIHF. Among them are the World Cup, the Canada Cup, the Deutschland Cup, the Spengler Cup and the Tournoi international de hockey pee-wee de Québec.
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 Armenia -  Australia -  Austria -  Belgium -  Belarus -  Bulgaria
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 Canada -  China -  Croatia -  Czech Republic -  Denmark -  Estonia
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 Finland -  France -  Germany -  Greece -  Great Britain -  Hungary
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 Ireland -  Iceland -  Israel -  Italy -  Japan -  Kazakhstan
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 Latvia -  Lithuania -  Luxembourg -  Mexico -  Mongolia -  North Korea
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 Norway -  New Zealand -  The Netherlands -  Poland -  Romania -  Russia
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 Serbia -  Slovakia -  Slovenia -  Spain -  South Africa -  South Korea
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 Sweden -  Switzerland -  Turkey -  Ukraine -  United-States
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Defunct teams:  Bohemia - Czechoslovakia -  East Germany -  U.S.S.R. - West Germany -  Yugoslavia
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 Andorra -  Argentina -  Azerbaijan -  Bosnia and Herzegovina -  Brazil -  Chinese Taipei
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 Hong Kong -  India -  Liechtenstein -  Macau -  FYR Macedonia -  Malaysia
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 Moldova -  Namibia -  Portugal -  Singapore -  Thailand -  United Arab Emirates
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Teams of non-IIHF member nations:  Algeria -  Georgia -  Kuwait -  Morocco
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Junior hockey
The Ice Hockey Wiki, in its aim to cover as thoroughly hockey as possible, pays a special attention to junior, collegial and university hockey, an area where informations are often difficult to find on the internet. Our members have already gathered results and standings of hundreds of seasons of Canadian and American junior hockey leagues and keep doing so, making IHW one of the most complete reference in the domain. Here are some major categories linked to this aspect of IHW:
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Other useful articles
If the article ice hockey is by far the most important to read for the neophytes, several more articles are of importance to understand the sport of ice hockey. This section lists some of the key articles to take a look at:
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Featured article
We've past today the 10,000 articles mark with the East Ottawa Thunder's article! Congratulations to everyone for the hard dedicated work!
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In the news
- June 26 : John Tavares is drafted 1st Overall at the 2009 NHL Entry Draft by the New York Islanders.
- June 12 : The Pittsburgh Penguins win their third Stanley Cup by defeating the Detroit Red Wings 2-1 in Game 7 of the 2009 Stanley Cup Final in Detroit, Michigan. The win by the Penguins is the third time ever the road team has won Game 7 in the Final and the first time since the Montreal Canadiens in 1971. Evgeni Malkin wins the Conn Smythe Trophy as playoff most valuable player.
- May 24 : The Windsor Spitfires win their first Memorial Cup as Canadian Major Junior champions with a 4-1 win over the Kelowna Rockets. In the process, the Spitfires became the first team to ever come back from an 0-2 start in the round robin to win the championship.
- May 10 : The Russian National Team defended their title as World Champions, defeating the Canadian National Team 2-1 at the 2009 World Hockey Championships.
- May 10 : The Vernon Vipers win 2-0 to defeat the defending 2008 Royal Bank Cup champion Humboldt Broncos and win the 2009 Royal Bank Cup. The 2009-10 season will be the 40th anniversary of Tier II Junior "A" hockey in Canada.
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Did you know that...
... that EHC Arosa, a legendary Swiss team nine times Swiss champion, voluntarily decided in 1986 to get relegated straight from the Nationalliga A to the third level of Swiss hockey, the 1.Liga, due to the rise of professionalism in Swiss hockey with which the team could no longer cope?
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Main categories
This section displays all the categories comprised in this wiki. Click the [+] signs left to a category to open it and see its subcategories.
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About the project
The Ice Hockey Wiki (IHW) is a project created to cover ice hockey as thoroughly as possible. The wiki was founded on June 27th 2006 by DMighton and has, ever since its creation, kept growing at a steady pace. We encourage visitors to create an account and join us in our effort to build the most complete and accurate ice hockey encyclopedia ever.
You do not have to create 50 new articles every day to contribute. Heck, you don't even need to drop by every day either! There is no obligation here. You may want to begin by correcting little spelling mistakes our members may have made to begin with; you may as well correct a team roster, add a line or two about a particular event that occurred in the history of a particular team or league, add statistics for a player, create an article to "blue" a dead link... In the end, every little step counts, and every edit made makes IHW better.
This is a free project for everyone; therefore, everyone can contribute. We hope to have your help!
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The community
The Ice Hockey Wiki community is a small but dedicated group of people who love ice hockey and are bond by a common goal: to build the most complete and accurate ice hockey encyclopedia ever written. We all have our very own
If you have any question about the wiki itself or about editing, you should ask our two administrators: DMighton, founder of the IHW, and Yannzgob.
We have a discussion page, the Locker Room. Don't hesitate to drop by the place and ask questions, propose things or join ongoing discussions!
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Help to get you started
You decided to help us? Thank you! We are glad you stepped in. We realize there may be quite a few things confusing for people who are new to wiki editing, and several little technicalities you may not be aware of if you have not hanged around here for a long time, so we have some resources to assist you. We suggest you start by reading the Ice Hockey Wiki Guidelines. That's a good place to begin with, as our rules and policies are stated there. Don't worry, we don't have many, and they are very simple and instinctive.
If you are new to wiki editing, you should then read this help page about editing. You should also read the Manual of style. It is not a very long read, and it will tell you what you need to know about how to write a new article. If you want to practice using the editing interface, you should do it in the sandbox. We also have a small FAQ to assist you with some things.
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IHW projects
The Ice Hockey Wiki is a pretty big wiki and is certainly not about to stop growing. Considering the fact that the world is a large place across which hockey is spread, IHW is beginning to create specific projects within the wiki for specific aspects of the sport. Here is a list of all the projects ongoing within the IHW. You are free to join any ongoing project or to start new ones at any time, but in the latter case, you should first check if there is not already one in progress covering what you plan to work on.
- IHW Project:Ontario hockey - a project aiming to gather all the data about ice hockey in Ontario.
- IHW Project:Hockey towns - a project aiming to build complete all-time lists of ice hockey teams and players based in or hailing from every city and town worldwide
- IHW Project:NCAA Hockey - a project aiming to build the most complete reference about NCAA hockey.
- IHW Project:Chronology of Hockey - a project that aims to gather all the important dates in the history of hockey
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