Editing Hockey puck (section)

==In spongee==

[[Spongee]]<ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/winnipeg-sponge-hockey-1.4448830 |title='Anybody can play': All about spongee, the 'cult' sport of Winnipeg |website=CBC News |date=16 December 2017 |publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation |language=en}}</ref> {{aka}} "sponge hockey", is an organized recreational cult game that emerged in Canada around the 1950s and is played in the Canadian city of [[Winnipeg]]. It gets its name from the puck that is used: instead of the hard vulcanized rubber puck used in regular ice hockey, a softer sponge puck is used.<ref name="spongeepuck" <ref>''Canford Sponge Hockey - The Richest Man'' | Prairie Sky Cinematography [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LrWEp_TN70] via Youtube</ref> At one point, some locals referred to it as "tweeter" based on the sound the original pucks made. The game is a variant of ice hockey and was influenced by Canadian [[road hockey|road-hockey]] and ice-hockey players playing [[shinny]] on outdoor rinks in running shoes and winter boots. The game is played in winter strictly on outdoor rinks, does not use ice skates, and has codes involving less contact. [[Broomball]] shoes are sometimes used.

The spongee puck<ref name="spongeepuck" /><ref>''Spongee: Checks Lies and Videotape'' [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPL-E6REz14 Part 1] and [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNjFd1Aqq2U Part 2]</ref> originated when someone took a toy red-white-and-blue [[handball]] and cut out the center, leaving a rude approximation of a standard hockey puck. Eventually manufactured types of sponge pucks came into use, some of which were developed in [[Slovakia]] and had a spring core. Spongee pucks are softer than ice hockey pucks and have more bounce.