This environment is in an ice rink which is a rectangular shape with rounded corners, surrounding the ice rink is walls and plexi glass. On the hockey rink, the red lines are used as the center line and the goal lines and blue lines being used as boundaries.  The area between the blue lines is called the neutral zone, while the areas on each side of the rink from blue line to goal line are the attacking/defending zones.  Goals are placed on the goal line, and a semicircle extending into the attacking/defending zone from one end of the goal to the other, forming an area in which the goalie plays his or her position. There are red circles with red dots in the center of them, one is in the middle, two are at each goal one on the right side, and one on the left side, these are face off dots.

Photo from American Hearing Impaired Hockey Association (AHIHA)

Equipment

During hockey some of the equipment players need are listed below.

• Hockey sticks
• Helmet
• Hockey gloves
• Shin, elbow and shoulder pads