Inline Hockey

Inline hockey and Quad hockey are two versions of Rollerhockey. Inline hockey is very much like Ice Hockey where participants utilize inline skates to roam around the ground. Inline hockey is a team sport played on a concrete or wooden surface. Quad hockey or Rink hockey is an another version of the roller hockey where player use quad skates to play.

In in line hockey, players utilize a hockey stick to take a plastic hockey puck to score points by shooting the puck in to the goal of their opponent. Inline hockey is composed of up to four lines of participants such as two defense men on each line and two forwards. There are only five players in a team (when in the match) including the goalie, whose task is to protect the net thus preventing rival team making score. Teams include 16 players who sit on the seat until it's their turn and inline hockey performed on inline skates as its name implies. The team scored the most goals declared as the winner. Overtime play, and shootouts will be used to decide the winners of the match if a match finished with a tie or draw.

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Inline hockey is a free flowing and very fast sport. Although it's considered as a contact sport, body checking is illegal. In roller hockey there are no defensive zones or blue lines means that there is no icing or off side that can occur throughout the match.  With this free flow along with less players allows faster game play. There are two twenty minutes’ period or four 10 minutes’ period for a match.

USA Roller Sports which is commonly known to as USARS is the highest governing body for the sport in USA. USARS is credited with the evolution of regulations and the modern day rules which used throughout tournaments. USARS arranged many tournaments in USA, but there were some other independent tournament providers such as North American Roller Championship, Amateur Athletic Union etc. Federation Internationale de Roller Sports and the International Ice Hockey Federation represented inline hockey globally, and both organize separate World championships yearly.

 

Differences with Ice Hockey

Although inline hockey is very much like ice hockey on inline skates, this change ramifies resulting in significant differences between both sports. Inline hockey is played at room temperature on a dry hard surface s which is not made from ice like in ice hockey. This helps to the bearings in the skate wheels.

Sealed concrete, timber and plastic tiles are used as a surface material which balance surface’s ability to slide the puck easily and to have a better handling with skates. But not one of these surfaces, are smooth as ice. So as a consequence the puck is made from a plastic substance that is rest on nylon to decrease friction.

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Inline hockey is a less physical sport than Ice hockey apart from the equipment used in a match. Body checking is generally a penalty, and many Leagues penalize for fighting. Players often wear less clothing and less padding. There are some rule differences too. A match doesn’t stop for Icing and only 4 players allowed to play in a match rather than Ice hockey’s five players apart from the goalie and there are no offside rules in inline hockey.