The story behind the site, and a quick note on our name.
The Hockey Gods (thehockeygods.com) is a hockey resource built around five things: education, history, training, entertainment, and gear. Learn the rules and terminology in our Learn section and 725-term glossary, trace the sport's history on our timeline, work through training drills organized by skill level, ask a hockey question and get a properly detailed answer from our Oracle feature, test your knowledge with categorized trivia, and browse gear recommendations in our shop.
The name comes from a bit of hockey folklore: players and fans have long invoked "the hockey gods" to explain the sport's bounces, breaks, and inexplicable twists of fate — a shared shorthand for the game's mix of skill and chaos. We borrowed that idea as the spirit of this site: a place that takes hockey seriously without taking itself too seriously.
The Hockey Gods (thehockeygods.com) is not affiliated with hockeygods.com or any other similarly named hockey website. If you're looking for our site specifically, look for "thehockeygods.com" — with "The" at the front.
