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Ice hockey, referred to simply ashockey inCanada, theUnited States, and most ofEurope includingFinland,Sweden,Russia and theCzech Republic, is ateamsport played onice. It is one of the world's fastest sports, with players on skates capable of going high speeds on natural or artificial ice surfaces. Though played on sixcontinents, ice hockey, as a participatory and as aspectator sport, is most popular innations in which theclimate is sufficiently cold as to permit natural, long-term seasonal ice cover;Canada, theCzech Republic,Finland,Slovakia,Sweden,Russia, and theUnited States have dominatedinternational competition, claiming 47 of the 48gold andsilver medals awarded in themen's and women's competitions at theOlympic Winter Games.
Ice hockey is one of the fourmajor North American professional sports, represented at the highest level by theNational Hockey League. It is the officialnational winter sport of Canada, where seven of the 32 NHL franchises are based; Canadian-born players, though, outnumber American-born players in the NHL by a factor of three (30 per cent, additionally, come from outsideNorth America).
The sport is played on ahockey rink. During normal play, there are six players, five positional players and onegoaltender, per team on the ice at any time, each of whom is onice skates. The objective of the game is to scoregoals by shooting a hardvulcanizedrubber disc, thepuck, into the opponent's goal net, with the goal nets placed at opposite ends of the rink. The players may control the puck using a longstick with a blade that is commonly curved at one end. Players may also generally redirect the puck with any part of their bodies, but the kicking of the puck into the goal is prohibited.
TheNew Jersey Devils are a professionalice hockey team based inNewark, New Jersey. They are members of theMetropolitan Division of theEastern Conference of theNational Hockey League. The Devils have won theStanley Cup three times, in 1995, 2000, and 2003. The club was founded inKansas City, Missouri in 1974, moved toDenver, Colorado after only two seasons, and then settled in New Jersey in 1982. Under currentgeneral managerRay Shero, the Devils have missed theplayoffs 2 seasons in a row. The Devils have played in thePrudential Centre since2007-08. They haverivalries with their trans-Hudson neighbor, theNew York Rangers, and with thePhiladelphia Flyers, as either the Devils or Flyers have won theAtlantic Division (1998-2013 Atlantic) title 12 out of 15 times. (more...)
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Christoph Schubert of theOttawa Senators beats theNew Jersey Devils'Martin Brodeur in a regular-season game on January 6, 2007. Ottawa and New Jersey met in the playoffs, in the conference semifinals. Ottawa won the series 4–1.
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