What is the ball used in ice hockey called?
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A hockey puck
It's a hockey puck. It's made of vulcanized rubber. A standard puck is one inch thick (25.4 mm), three inches in diameter (76.2 mm) and weighs between 5.5 and 6 ounces. You are kind of right calling it a ball though. Ice hockey evovled from bandy which was played by field hockey players who wanted to continue to train during the european winters. Early forms of ice hickey, also once known as "Canadian rules bandy", used a ball rather than a puck when it first came to N. America from Europe. Early players found that the rubber used in the field hockey was far too inactive on the hard ice surface, so they cut off the top and bottom of the ball to form the hockey puck.
It's a hockey puck. It's made of vulcanized rubber. A standard puck is one inch thick (25.4 mm), three inches in diameter (76.2 mm) and weighs between 5.5 and 6 ounces. You are kind of right calling it a ball though. Ice hockey evovled from bandy which was played by field hockey players who wanted to continue to train during the european winters. Early forms of ice hickey, also once known as "Canadian rules bandy", used a ball rather than a puck when it first came to N. America from Europe. Early players found that the rubber used in the field hockey was far too inactive on the hard ice surface, so they cut off the top and bottom of the ball to form the hockey puck.
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hockey puck is a disk made of vulcanized rubber that serves the same functions in various games as a ball does in ball games. The best-known use of pucks is in ice hockey, a major international sport
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