The word "hockey" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the sport generally played on ice or with a ball and stick. For example, "The hockey game starts in an hour" or "My brother plays ice hockey in his free time".
"Two Olympic victories, the hockey and Crimea," said Trifonova, referring to the Russian team's victories in the Winter Olympics and paralympics held in Sochi earlier this year, as well as in the recent ice hockey world championships, and the annexation by Moscow of the Crimea peninsula.
On the night of 11 June 2012, Sheehy's next-door neighbour Ben Hawes, a former Great Britain hockey captain, heard raised voices coming from her flat and noises that sounded like a cross between "a shout and a scream".
It doesn't sound like it was quite the erudite examination into the potential of statistical analysis of hockey that one might have hoped for.
Here's McIsaac: "I know its application in hockey isn't exactly the same as in baseball, but for fun let's just pretend that it works the same.
He took up hockey only in recent years, in an effort to promote the sport.
In many cases, as with baseball's American League, football's All-America Football Conference (AAFC) and hockey's Western Hockey League (WHL) and World Hockey Association WHAA), the impetus for forming a second major league was to bring the sport into regions lacking professional options.
Joe Hockey says a political fundraising forum which asked members for $22,000 a year "to assist Joe Hockey" was "grossly misleading" because he had not accepted money from any organisation or individual.
"It is certainly not up to Joe Hockey to allocate concession arrangements provided by the states... and it seems increasingly unlikely the states will maintain those concessions for people who aren't pensioners any more," he said.
Joe Hockey is right that we're facing an emergency.
"If they want to maintain that level of funding … they will have to get it from taxpayers, just as we would have had to get it from the same taxpayers," treasurer Joe Hockey told the ABC on Wednesday.
Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey suggest that to fix the economy you need to first fix the budget, but there is very little here to suggest the economy is improved in any way by the budget.
