Ice Owls

The Ice Owls are a very unique and innovative hockey team from Toronto Canada.  They are a hockey team composed of players who are blind or visually impaired.  Now many  of you are wondering how this is possible but its the puck which makes this possible.  The puck is a hollow plastic wheel composed of nuts, bolts, and hardware.  It rattles and hisses flying across the ice which makes it quite easy for the players to follow the flow of the game.  The Ice Owls team was formed in 1972 and has been growing ever since then.  Some of the rules are different compared to a normal hockey game, the biggest rule change is the height of the puck on a shot into the goal.  To make it possible and fair for the goalie to stop the puck it has to be below 3 feet to count the goal.  As another rule the forwards usually have the greatest degree of sight, followed by the defense men, then the goalie who is usually completely blind. 

Here is the website for further information: http://www.iceowls.ca/