how many quarters in hockey?

Answer 1

zero ... there are no quarters ... There are 3 periods.

Answer 2

How Many Quarters In Hockey

Answer 3

No quarters...just periods. In which the game of hockey has 3.

Answer 4

when the term "quarter" is used it refers to 1/4. So in games that have quarters, there are four times of play.


In hockey the term period is used. A game of hockey consists of three twenty minute periods

Answer 5

If there were quarters in hockey there would be 4? Isn't that why they're called (quarters)? Because there is four (4) of them. But there are no quarters in hockey. There's periods instead. 3 I believe.

Answer 6

There are no quarters in hockey, but there was a loonie in the ice for the Olympics (2002) and there is much speculation as to whether there was one hidden in the last Olympics!


How loose change helped Team Canada win Olympic hockey gold.

"A True Fable About Hockey and the Olympics." We are dealing with hockey legend here. This is not a story that delves into the grim details and crushing pressure associated with the world's most prestigous hockey tournament.
"...About the Size of a Loonie"
A Canadian one-dollar coin (commonly known as a "loonie" because its face shows the profile of a loon) lay buried in the Salt Lake City ice throughout the 2002 Olympic hockey tournament, its existence revealed after Canada's victory in the men's gold medal game. It is now on display at the Hockey Hall of Fame, as the most famous loonie in Canada.
The story begins with Trent Evans, the Edmonton ice technician who worked at the Games' primary hockey venue, the E Center. As the floor of the arena was being flooded and frozen in layers, a colleague mentioned that centre ice should be marked with a drop of paint, "about the size of a loonie."

The next day Evans fished a dollar coin from his pocket and dropped it at the centre spot, where it was cover by 5/8 inch of ice (later, when ordered to remove the coin by his superiors, Evans added a dab of paint for camouflage). The loonie bore silent witness as the Canadian men's and women's teams won their respective gold medals, after which Wayne Gretzky displayed it to a bemused international media.


Unless you meant how the game is broken up with breaks, then there are 3 periods in hockey unless it goes to overtime, in which case, it would be a shootout or overtime periods.

Answer 7

Assuming you mean NHL hockey, there are three PERIODS (not quarters) of 20 minutes each. There are 15 minute breaks between each period. Overtime periods (regular season) are five minutes long with a one minute break between the end of the third period and the overtime period, and end when one team scores a goal to break the tie. If the game is not settled after the five minutes, it goes into a best of three shootout. In the playoffs, overtime periods are basically extra "sudden death" 20 minute periods, and there can be as many periods as it takes to break the tie.

Answer 8

There are no quarters in hockey. There are three 20-minute periods.

Answer 9

no quarters in hockey, the are called periods, and we have 3, 20 minute periods a game. 5 minute period if the game is still tied after regulation, then we go to shot out to see who will win the game. in the playoffs, 3, 20 minute periods. and if still tied the game goes to over time, and the over time is 20 minute periods till someone scores a goal then the game is over.

Answer 10

there are no quarters, unlike basketball and american football. In hockey, there are 3 periods of 20 minutes, unlike 4 quaters of 15 minutes

Answer 11

Hmmm... hockey, or ice hockey?

Definately not baseball, like one of the answerers seems to think...

Ice hockey, like people say, is 3 periods, typically 20 minutes long. Hockey, or field hockey, is generally played in two halves.