It is like a tip off in Basketball except it happens after every stoppage. There are 9 places on ice rink were the face off can happen. They are each of the dots. One player (the players playing the CENTER position) from each team lines up facing eahcother and the ref drops the puck. Game/play begins. This happens after every stoppage.
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A puck off.
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Face Off
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Face offs were first called "faces" of the puck or a " puck-off."
drop of the puck or face off
A face-Off.
In the NHL the face off automatically goes into then end of the team committing the infraction.
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Hockey and Lacrosse are two (2).