Yes
You can check at any speed anywhere on a player except you can't check them from behind and you cant check them when they are near the boards because you will get a boarding penalty. You are allowed to check them if they are along the boards though.You can do an open ice check which is when you check someone who is out in the open. But you are only allowed to check with your hips, torso, and shoulders. you are not allowed to raise your arms and you are not allowed to push with your hands and you definitely not allowed to kick.
Well, body contact is allowed and a lot of it hapens but you are not allowed to body check.
Interference in ice hockey is when you hinder the movement of a player who does not possess the puck. You can body check the play with the puck and no penalty will be called. If you body check a player away from the puck, an interference penalty will be called.
Interference in Ice Hockey is when you hinder the movement of a player who does not possess the puck. You can body check the play with the puck and no penalty will be called. If you body check a player away from the puck, an interference penalty will be called.
More checking is allowed as the players get older. The adults get away with more than the five year olds. But even the adults can't do huge checks like in Ice Hockey. It is just a bit less.
This is called a "check" there are several different types of checks. Example: hip check, body check.
Decking is slang for a big body check/punch during fight delivered from one person to another during a hockey game.
It depends. In men's ice hockey you are allowed to hit people. In woman's ice hockey you can get a 2 minute minor penalty for body checking.
Yes, cross checking is legal in hockey as long as it is done within the rules and regulations of the game. Players are allowed to use their stick to check an opponent as long as it is done in a controlled and safe manner.
Stick check and poke check are the two most common, you can also use a hip check and/or shoulder check.
hockey by far
Most believe only in pro but it adds intensity to the game