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Hockey Vs Ice Hockey

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The complete athlete: A comparative essay of ice hockey and football. Playing sports and watching sports is a common American pastime. Many hours of young Americans are spend playing sports. Two of these common sports are football and ice hockey. It is the desire of all young athletes to reach the NFL (National Football League) or the NHL (National Hockey League) in their sport. Football is played on a hundred-yard field in four quarters of 15 minutes each, totaling 60 minutes of play. Each football team has eleven players on the field at a time, these players play different positions on the field. NFL team play sixteen games in a season during a seventeen-week season. Ice hockey is played on a two-hundred-foot ice rink. Each team has six players on the ice including a goalie. Ice hockey is played for three twenty-minute periods. NHL teams play eighty-two games in a season. While Football and Ice Hockey are similar that both games last sixty minutes they differ greatly in the number of players playing and the physical attributes of the players.
Both sporting events last sixty minutes but differ in the amount of time each player spends on the playing surface. Hockey is played on ice that is three quarters of an inch think. Sometimes it is thicker ice, but thicker ice slows the players skating. On the ice are six players, one of which is a goalie. The other five are two defense men and three forwards. Forward players are further divided into wings, left

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