- Spacek, Jaroslav (1974- )
- Born in Rokycany, Czechoslovakia. Defenceman.
International Career : Played for the Czech Republic in the 1999
& 2001 World
Championships.
Club Career : Played for Skoda Plzen
1992-93, ZKZ Plzen 1993-97, Farjestads
BK 1997-98, Florida Panthers &
Beast of New Haven 1998-99, Florida
Panthers 1999-00, Florida Panthers
& Chicago Blackhawks 2000-01 and
Chicago Blackhawks & Columbus
Blue Jackets 2001- .
Medals : Won World Championship
gold in 1999 & 2001.
- Spacek, Zdenek (- )
- Club Career : Played for Tesla Pardubice.
- Spacy
- The official mascot of the 2001 World Championships,
said to be a fun-loving extraterrestrial.
- Spain - Men's National Team
- See Spain
- Spajic, Ivan (1979- )
- Defenceman.
International Career : Played for Croatia in the 1999 World Championship Pool C.
- Spalding Puck
- The name of the puck adopted as the official puck of the National
Hockey League in 1940-41.
- Spanhel, Martin (1977- )
- Right-wing.
International Career : Played for Czech
Republic in the 2000 World Championships.
Club Career : Played for HC Plzen 1999- .
Medals : Won World Championship
gold in 2000.
- Spanish Championship
- The Spanish Championship was restarted in 1972.
- Spanish National League
 - The league has teams mainly based in the north-east of the country.
- Spanish Winter Sports
Federation
- Madrid, Spain.
The organisation which governs ice hockey in Spain - through an Ice Hockey
Committee.
- Sparer, Markus (- )
- Coach.
International Career : Coached Italy
(Women) in the 2000 & 2001 World Championships (Women).
- Sparks, Andrew 'Andy' (1973- )
- Born in England. Marketing & Communications Officer for the Guildford Flames.
Club Career : Played for Streatham
Redskins 1988-90, Basingstoke
Beavers 1990-92, Milton Keynes Kings & Guildford
Flames 1992-93 and Guildford Flames
1993-96.
Honours : His number 15
jersey has been retired by Guildford Flames.
- Sparta Amfi
- Sarpsborg, Norway. Built in 1963. Also used to host international matches.
Home ice for : Sparta-Sarpsborg
Capacity : 4,000
Ice pad size :
- Sparta Prague (HC Sparta Praha)
Prague, Czech Republic. Founded in 1903. Name changed in 1948 to Sokol Sparta, in 1951
to Sokol Sparta Sokolova, in 1953 to Spartak Sokolov, in 1969 to Sparta CKD, in 1991 to AC
Sparta and in 1992 to HC Sparta. Played in the European
Hockey League in 1996-97 and in 1998-99.
Home ice : Sportovni Hala
Team colours : red, yellow & blue
Honours : Won the Czechoslovakian Championship in 1953,
1954 & 1990.
Won the Czech Championship in 1993.
Won the Czech Extraleague 1995-96.
Won the Spengler Cup
in
1962-63 & 1963-64. - Sparta Sarpsborg
Sarpsborg, Norway. Play in the Norwegian Eliteserien.
Home ice : Sparta Amfi
Team colours : blue & white
Honours : Won the Norwegian Championship twice. - Spartak Moscow (HC Spartak Moscow) [web
site]
Moscow, Russia. Played in the Russian Superleague 1998-99 and the
Russian Premier League 1999-2000.
Home ice : Sokolniki Sport Palace
Team colours : red & white
Head coach : Alexander Igumnov 1946-47, S Sokolov 1947-48,
Alexander Igumnov 1948-55, Anatoli Seglin 1955-57, Anatoli Seglin &
A Egorov 1957-58, Alexander Igumnov 1958-60, Alexander Novokreshchenov 1960-64,
Vsevolod Bobrov 1964-67, Evgeni Majorov 1967-68, Nikolai Karpov 1968-70, Boris Majorov 1970-71,
Yuri Baulin 1971-72, Vyacheslav Starshinov 1972-75, Nikolai Karpov 1975-77, Robert Cherenkov 1977-79,
Boris Kulagin 1979-83, Boris Kulagin & Vladimir Shadrin 1983-84, Evgeni Zimin 1984-85,
Boris Majorov 1985-?, Nikolai Soloviev 2000-01, Nikolai Soloviev & Fedor Kanareikin
2001-
Honours : Won the Russian
Championship in 1962, 1967, 1969 and 1976.
Won the Ahearne Cup in 1971, 1972 & 1973.
Won the Spengler Cup
in
1980-81,
1981-82,
1985-86,
1989-90 &
1990-91. - Spartak Omsk
- See Avangard Omsk
- Spartak St Petersburg
St Petersburg, Russia. Played in the Russian
Premier League 1999- .
Home ice : Obukhovets Sports Palace
Team colours : red & white
General manager :
...
Head coach : Valeri Shilov
2002- .
Team captain : ...
All-time best players : ...
Honours : - Spartak Subotica (HK Spartak
Subotica) [web site]
Subotica, FR Yugoslavia. Founded in 1946. First match played in 1947. Play
in the Yugoslav Hockey League.
Home ice : Stadion Malih Sportova
(1969- )
Team colours : blue & white
Head coach : Nikola Dujmovic -02, Robert Vere
2002- - Spartak ZMS Trebic
- Trebice, Czechoslovakia.
- Spautz, Marc (- )
- Netminder.
International Career : Played for Luxembourg in the 1992 World
Championships.
- Spearing
- i. When a player pokes, or attempts to poke, an opponent with the the blade of
his stick.
ii. Officials' Signal - the official makes a jabbing motion
with both hands thrust out in front of his body.
- Spearing, Scott (- )
- Forward.
Club Career : Played for Bracknell Bees
& Basingstoke
Bison 2005-07.
- Speck, Fred (- )
- Club Career : Played for Baltimore Clippers 1970-71.
Honours : Won the Les
Cunningham Plaque in 1970-71.
- Spectrum
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Built in 1966. Name changed to CoreStates
Spectrum.
Home ice for : Philadelphia Flyers
(1966-95)
Capacity : 17,423
Ice pad size :
- Spectrum Ice Rink
- Guildford, Surrey, England.
Home ice for : Guildford
Flames
Capacity : 2,200
Ice pad size : 197 feet x 98 feet
- Speechley, William (1906- )
- Netminder.
International Career : Played for Great
Britain 1928-30.
Medals : Won European
Championship bronze in 1928.
- Speel, Tommy (1971- )
- Centre.
International Career : Played for the Netherlands in the 1999 World Championship Pool C.
- Speer, Bill (1942- )
- Born in Lindsay, Ontario, Canada. Defenceman.
Club Career : Played for Boston Bruins.
Medals : Won the Stanley Cup in
1970.
- Spektrum Flyers
- Oslo, Norway. In 1994-95 a group of businessmen merged Furuset
IF and Manglerud/Star and founded a team the
Spektrum Flyers who were to play in the Oslo Spektrum
arena. The only problem was that they did not manage to get any steady following, and thus
moved their games around the country (the town of Gj�vik where they played two games is
140 km away, and Bergen is 600 km !). At one game at the Oslo Spektrum they managed to
pull in a crowd of just 95 people for a game against
Stavanger-Viking. The club folded in 1996.
- Spence, Jimmy (1935-2004)
- Born in Edinburgh, Scotland.
International Career : Played for Great Britain 1961-73.
- Spence, Lawrie (- )
- International Career : Played for Great Britain 1953.
- Spencer Penrose Award
Awarded annually to the top coach in the NCAA from 1951 to 1969. From 1970
it is awarded to the top coach in NCAA University Division. Named in
honour of Spencer Penrose, he built the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs
which hosted the first ten NCAA Championships.- Spendlove, Jim (1954- )
- Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. Hockey fan and recreational hockey player in
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Works in the telecommunications industry. Co-founder, with Jim
Boone, of the National Hockey League Fans' Association.
- Spengler Cup [web site in both
English & German]
-
Held in Davos, Switzerland. First contested in 1923. Annual international tournament held
around the Christmas break. Probably the world's oldest international club tournament
still contested (it is still regarded as a club tournament although national teams are
also allowed to compete).
- Spezza, Jason (1983- )
- Born in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. Centre. Ottawa
Senators 1st pick (2nd overall) in the 2001 NHL
Entry Draft.
International Career : Played for Canada
(Junior) 1999-01.
Club Career : Played for Mississauga
Ice Dogs 1999-00, Mississauga Ice
Dogs & Windsor
Spitfires 2000-01, Windsor
Spitfires & Belleville Bulls
& Grand Rapids Griffins
2001-02, Ottawa Senators & Binghamton
Senators 2002-03, Ottawa Senators
2003-04 and Binghamton
Senators 2004- .
Medals :
Won World
Championship (Junior) bronze in 1999-00 &
2000-01.
Honours : Won the Les Cunningham
Plaque
2004-05.
- SPHL
- See Southern
Professional Hockey League
- Spiljak, Milan (1979- )
- Netminder.
International Career : Played for Croatia in the 1999 World Championship Pool C.
- Spirit River Rangers
Canada. Played in the North Peace Hockey
League.
Home ice :
Team colours : - "Splendid Is The
Sun"
- Published in 2003 by Stryker-Indigo Publishing of New York. The 260 page
softcover book by George and Darril Fosty is sub-titled The
5,000 Year History Of Hockey.
- Split puck
- In 1900, Fred C Waghorn refereed a game
where a puck split in two and one half ended up in the goal, after much deliberation he ruled it as
'no goal' because the official definition of a puck included specific
dimensions and since the piece of rubber in the goal did not meet these specifications,
it could not be a puck. He therefore instituted the rule that the entire
puck must cross the line for a goal to count.
- Split the Defence
- When a player or a pass goes between the two opposing defencemen.
- Spokane Bombers
Spokane, Washington, USA. Played in the Pacific
Coast Hockey League 1940-41.
Home ice :
Team colours : - Spokane Canaries
Spokane, Washington, USA. Played in the Pacific Coast Hockey Association
1916-17.
Home ice :
Team colours : blue & yellow - Spokane Chiefs [web
site]
Spokane, Washington, USA. Played in the Western Hockey League
and the Western International Hockey League.
Home ice : Spokane Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Team colours : red, white & blue
Head coach : Mike Babcock
1994-00 - Spokane Clippers
Spokane, Washington, USA. Played in the Pacific
Coast Hockey League 1936-39. The team moved from Oakland during the season where they
had started the 1936-37 season as the Oakland Clippers.
Home ice :
Team colours : - Spokane Comets
Spokane, Washington, USA. Played in the Western Hockey League 1960-61.
Home ice :
Team colours : - Spokane Spokes
Spokane, Washington, USA. Played in the Western Hockey League 1958-60.
Home ice :
Team colours : - Spokane Veterans Memorial Coliseum
- Spokane, Washington, USA.
Home ice for : Spokane
Chiefs
Capacity :
Ice pad size :
- Spoked-B
The Spoked-B logo was introduced during the 1948-49 season as a celebration
of Boston Bruins 25th anniversary as an
NHL team. The logo first used a rounded B but was changed the next
season to the block B we see today. The letter B was placed in a spoked
wheel to represent Boston's nickname in those days, which was The Hub. In
the 1948-49 season the logo had the number 24 on the left spoke
and 49 on the right spoke which related to the years 1924 & 1949.- Sport Palace
- i. Kazan, Russia.
Home ice for : Ak Bars Kazan
Capacity : 3,800
Ice pad size :
200 feet x 98 feet
ii. Russia.
Home ice for :
Izhstal Izhevsk
Capacity : 4,300
Ice pad size : 200 feet x 98 feet
iii. Russia.
Home ice for :
Rubin Tyumen
Capacity :
Ice pad size : 200 feet x 98 feet
iv. Ufa, Bashkiria, Russia.
Home ice for : HC
Salavat Yulayev Ufa
Capacity : 4,000
Ice pad size : 200 feet x 98 feet
- Sport Vaasa (Vaasan Sport)
Vaasa, Finland. The team was originally founded as a hockey team in 1962 and never
ceased to play hockey but was only founded formally in 1983. Sport has played one season
in the top Finnish league SM-liiga (1975-76), but since then the team has played in
Division 1 and Division 2, most recently in Division 1. During that single season in
SM-liiga, Sport Vaasa made league history by scoring the first ever goal of the SM-liiga
in the opening game against IFK Helsinki.
Home ice : Vaasan
j��halli
Team colours : red & white
Honours : - Sport1
- The leading Internet service company in sports in Germany. Provides the technical and editorial services used by the
IIHF and their statistical partner FoGData Ab on the IIHF's official
World Championship web site at http://www.ihwc.net.
- Sportegy Hockey [web
site]
- An on-line version of the postal hockey game. Players can manage their virtual hockey team 12 months a year in this management game.
- Sportforum Berlin-Hohensch�nhausen
- Berlin, Germany. Was due to be extended to 7,000 capacity in the summer of 1998.
Home ice for : Berlin
Polarbears
Capacity : 5,000 (1,500 seats and 3,500 standing)
Ice pad size :
- Sporting Club Lyon
Lyon, France. A small club when hockey was in its infancy in France.
Home ice :
Team colours :
Honours : Won the French
Championship in 1920. - Sporting News Hockey Guide
The Hockey Guide covers North American hockey - including the NHL, minor league, major
junior league and college. It has statistics, final standings, playoff results, and
award winners. It also previews the upcoming NHL season with rosters, front-office
directories and schedules. It also has up-to-date career statistics and personal
data for NHL players and head coaches. - Sporting News Hockey Register
-
The Hockey Register compiles personal data, statistics, awards and records for every NHL
player and head coach.
- Sportovni Hala
- Prague, Czech Republic. Opened in 1962. Name changed to Paegas Arena.
Home ice for : HC Sparta Praha
Capacity : 18,700
Ice pad size :
- Sportpalais Merksem
- Merksem, Antwerp, Belgium. The Sportpalais was built in 1933 as a 400
metre cycle racing track with an ice rink in the middle. The ice rink did
not open until 30th October 1938 - it stopped being used in 1974. The cycle
track was closed down in 1992 although the arena continued to host
orchestral and pop music concerts with audience capacities of around 25,000.
The cycle track was to be reinstated for the 2001 World Cycling Championships.
Home ice for : Brabo Antwerp,
CPA, UPA, Wild Goose,
AS Neptunus, VKA, Antwerp Ice Hockey Club
(1942-59), Olympia (1959-73)
Capacity : 21,000
Ice pad size : 85 feet x 185 feet
- Sports d'Hiver Paris
Paris, France. A small club when hockey was in its infancy in France.
Home ice :
Team colours :
Honours : Won the French
Championship in 1921 & 1922. - Sports Zone, The [web
site]
- The Sports Zone reproduces classic Hockey Jerseys from days gone by. From 1920 Team Canada, to Cinncinati Mohawks, to the World Hockey Association and much more in between. A large selection of country jerseys available.
- Sports-Drome
- See Richmond Ice Rink
- SportsK.com [web
site]
- Taylor, Michigan, USA. The sports clothing store was established in 1982. The web site takes orders from anywhere in the world, accepts credit cards and offers competitive prices on NHL jerseys.
- Spratling, Neil (- )
- Club Career : Played for Medway Bears
1991-92, Stevenage Sharks 1992-93
& Medway Bears
1993-95.
Medals : Won the English League 1991-92.
Won the English League Play-offs in 1992.
- Spring, Corey (1971- )
- Born in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada. Right-wing.
- Club Career : Played for Atlanta
Knights 1995-96, Adirondack Red
Wings 1996-97, Tampa Bay Lightning
& Adirondack Red Wings
1997-98, Tampa Bay Lightning & Cleveland
Lumberjacks 1998-99, Detroit Vipers
& Manitoba Moose & Augsberger
Panther 1999-00 and Manchester Storm
& Long Beach Ice Dogs 2000-01 .
- Spring, Don (- )
-
International Career : Played for Canada
in the 1980 Olympics.
- Spring Cup
- Contested by British ice hockey teams in the 1970s.
1976-77 : Fife
Flyers
- Springfield Arena
- Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
Home ice for : New
England Whalers (1976-79)
Capacity : 7,452
Ice pad size :
- Springfield Capitols
Springfield, USA. Played in the All-American Hockey League
1988-89.
Home ice :
Team colours :
General manager :
Head coach : - Springfield Civic Center
- Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Formerly known as the Springfield
Arena.
- Home ice for : Springfield
Falcons, Springfield Indians
Capacity : 7,444
Ice pad size : 200 feet x 85 feet
- Springfield Falcons [web
site]
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Played in the American Hockey League in 1994- .
Home ice : Springfield
Civic Center
Team colours :
Affiliations have included :
Edmonton Oilers 2007-08, Hartford Whalers
1994-97,
Johnstown Chiefs, Phoenix Coyotes
1996-04,
Tampa Bay Lightning 2001-03 &
2004-07
General manager : Bruce Landon
1994-
Head coach : Paul Gillis
1994-95, Kevin McCarthy 1995-97, Dave Farrish 1997-00, Marc Potvin 2000-02, Marty
McSorley 2002-04, Dirk Graham 2004-06, Geoff Ward 2006-07, Kelly
Buchberger 2007-
Team captain : Rob Murray
2002- - Springfield Indians (1926-33)
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA.
Played in the Canadian-American Hockey League 1926-33.
Folded after thirteen games of the 1932-33 season.
Home ice :
Team colours : - Springfield Indians (1935-42)
-
Springfield, Massachusetts,
USA. Purchased by Eddie Shore in 1940. Played in the Canadian-American Hockey League 1935-36 and the American Hockey League 1936-42.
Home ice :
Team colours :
- Springfield Indians (1946-67)
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Played in the American Hockey League
1946-51, Eastern Amateur Hockey League 1951-53, Qu�bec Hockey League
1953-54 and American Hockey League 1954-67.
Home ice : Springfield Civic
Center
Team colours :
Affiliations have included :
General manager :
Head coach :
Honours : Won the Calder Cup
in 1960, 1961 & 1962.- Springfield Indians (1974-94)
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Started the 1974-75 season as the
Springfield Kings - name changed to Indians
in February 1975. Played in the American Hockey League
1974-94.
Home ice : Springfield Civic
Center
Team colours :
Affiliations have included : Boston
Bruins 1980-81, Hartford Whalers
1979-80 & 1990-94, Kansas City Scouts 1975-76,
Los Angeles Kings 1974-75,
New England
Whalers 1977-79
General manager : Jake Milford 1974-75, Bruce Landon
1982-94
Head coach : Ron Stewart 1974-75, Jim Anderson 1975-76, Joel
Quenneville 1993-94
Honours : Won the Calder Cup
in 1975, 1990 & 1991.- Springfield Kings
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Played in the American Hockey
League 1967-75. Name changed to
Springfield Indians in February 1975.
Home ice : Springfield Civic
Center
Team colours :
Affiliations have included : Los Angeles Kings 1974-75
General manager : Jake Milford 1974-75
Head coach : Ron Stewart 1974-75
Honours : Won the Calder Cup
in 1971. - Sproule, Mark (- )
- Born in the USA. While taking an MBA degree at Templeton College (Oxford)
in 2003, he etched his name into the long history of the Varsity Match by
scoring the winning goal at 7:36 of the extra period. It was the first time
this century-old contest had been settled in sudden death overtime.
Honours : Varsity Match MVP 2003.
- Sputnik Nizhni Tagil
Nizhni Tagil, Russia. Sputnik = The Satellite. Nizhni Tagil is an industrial and
metal mining city in the Urals, north of Ekaterinburg in central
Russia. Played in the Russian
Premier League 1999-2000.
Home ice :
Team colours : Red, black and white
Honours :
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