Ice hockey, often referred to as hockey, is a team sport played on a specially equipped ice. The goal of each team is to score goals by sending a vulcanized rubber disc called puck or puck inside the goal at one end of the rink. The team consists of several lines of five players, who take turns on the ice, and a goalkeeper, who travel on ice skates and handle the puck with a hockey stick also France called lacrosse or hockey stick in Belgium and Switzerland.

Hockey originated in Canada and was developed in the late nineteenth century in North America. speed sport it is often described as "the fastest team sport in the world" 2, but it is also a violent sport with his productions sometimes dangereuses3 failure.

Globally, hockey is practiced in many countries and one of the most famous championships in the world is that of the National League North American Hockey exists since 1917. Recurring international competitions are also organized by the International Federation ice hockey, better known by the acronym IIHF. So every year the world championships are organized either for hockey male or ice and this for different age groups. Finally, every four years, held the Olympic Games where women's tournament and one male are organized.

Since ancient times, man has played games where an object was hit with a curved stick. So on a kouros dating from 400 BC. BC, two naked men are playing a game, bent forward with a stick shaped object in his hand and a bullet between them. Later, a painting by Pieter Bruegel, Hunters in the Snow (1565), shows players using curved sticks to play with a small object on the ice.

The use of the word "hockey" to refer to such games is attested since 1785 (1527 for hockie) but its etymology is uncertain. It is perhaps derived from the Old French word of Germanic origin meaning a hiccup hook shepherd's staff or the word hoghee Iroquois.

European immigrants introduced in North America a multitude of games like hockey, such as French lacrosse, Scottish shinty, the Irish hurling and hockey, played in England. These games appear to have been adapted to be played on the ice and have imported some aspects of the game of lacrosse (as the physical hardness) played by Native Americans of the Iroquois family. Several Canadian cities can claim to be the birthplace of ice hockey, Halifax, Windsor or Kingston, but the foundation of the modern game of ice hockey was held in Montreal, Quebec.

The international rules of ice hockey are issued by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF). This is also the regulation that applies in the national championships in most countries outside of North America.

Indeed, the United States and Canada (and although these countries are members of the IIHF), leagues may enact their own rules. And the National Hockey League has a law that differs somewhat from that of the IIHF, in particular the fighting, totally banned in international regulation.

Ice hockey is played on a rink that can be either internal or external, the ice can be natural or artificial. In most of the meetings held in a competition, the ice is artificial. There are different sizes of rinks but the International Ice Hockey Federation defines regulatory dimensions: between 56 and 61 m long and between 26 and 30 m wide. For international competitions, the minimum dimensions spend 60m on 29 m. The playing area has rounded corners with a radius of between 7 and 8.5 m. Protection ice must be installed above the edges of the ice, the ice forming between 1.60 and 2 meters high behind the goals and at least 80 cm in height on the rest of the ice.

Several parties make up the ice: a defensive zone between the bottom of the ice rink and the first blue line, a neutral zone between the two blue lines and finally an offensive zone blue line between the second and the other end of the ice. Red lines in number three also cut the ice in the direction of the width of a line to centre ice and two lines constituting the goal lines and distant from each end of 4 m. The blue lines are drawn so that the spacing between these two lines is equal

Team Finland Ice Hockey is the selection of the best Finnish players ice hockey. It is ranked at 2nd position IIHF rankings.

In 1928, the Finnish national team plays in Helsinki its first official match she lost against Sweden team on the 8-1 score. In 1937, she won her first international win 2-1 against Estonia. She made her debut in the World Championship in 1939 where it won any matches.

In 1948, the team adopts for the first time the lion as a symbol on his jersey. In 1962, she won her first official medal at the European Championship. We must wait until 1995 to see the Finns win their first gold medal in the world championship with a 4-1 win against the Swedish rivals.

The French have supported the team of our university: HOKKI