Hockey’s Lethal Weapon

For reference, a penalty corner (pc) is granted in the case of unintentional fault in the circle or willful misconduct in the 23-meter zone. It is played from the end line (via the player entering the ball into play) to attackers placed outside the circle. The ball must leave the circle to be able to score a goal. An attacker playing the ball in the circle must score the goal. Only four defenders and the goalkeeper are allowed to defend the goal. The pc has become the lethal weapon of several national teams who have true sharpshooters such as the Dutch player Mink van der Weerden.

Ever more powerful (the best achieve ball speeds of over 145 km/hr) and more accurate, sleepers (this is not the right term in English I think you want to use drag flickers instead) have worked hard to improve their technique and movement. This phase of play has become crucial in modern hockey and the staff carefully prepares defensive penalty corners (such as going out facing an opponent) and offensive penalty corners (choice of direct sleep or phase sleep again should be drag flick and I am not sure what is meant by phase). In London during the 2012 Olympics, there were 251 penalty corners in 72 matches, for an average of 3.48 per game, 69 goals were scored during penalties, for a success rate of 37% for men (for the women, it was nearly 51%!).

What else?

In 2013, the IHF decided to impose a time limit on the pc giving the team a maximum of 40 seconds to execute the pc. If the team is not ready at the end of the allotted time, the captain may receive a green card