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Proposal for my edit of the Roller in-line hockey article
This article has many flaws through out the article but I am going to focus on the introductory paragraph because there is a lot of work that needs to be done. At the beginning of the article is a statement that reads "This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (March 2014)" This is a very large problem because none of the information in this article is credible. Below is a list of sources that I will be using to update this article with. I also plan to improve the overall introduction to the topic because as you can see below the article is very choppy and uninformative. I want to expand more upon the basic overview of the sport itself. Also I am going to remove a lot of the cluttered information about the number of world championships that have been won by certain countries.


 * Pickard, G. (2007, January 1). History of Inline Hockey. Retrieved March 17, 2015, from http://www.teamusa.org/USA-Roller-Sports/Inline-Hockey/History-of-Inline-Hockey
 * The Official Rules of Inline Hockey USA Roller Sports Inline Hockey Rule Book. (2006, January 1). Retrieved March 17, 2015, from http://www.torhs2hot4ice.com/sp-datastore/media-files/USA Roller Sports USARS Rulebook.pdf
 * Our Sport. (n.d.). Retrieved March 17, 2015, from http://www.inlinehockeyworld.com/sport/

In-line hockey, commonly referred to as roller hockey, is a team sport played on a wood, asphalt, cement or sport tile surface, in which players use a hockey stick to shoot a hard plastic hockey puck into their opponent's goal to score points. It is considered a contact sport but body checking is prohibited. Inline hockey teams are composed of four lines of players including two forwards and two defense men on each line. There are five players including the goalie from each team on the rink at a time. It is the goalies job to prevent the other teams players from scoring. Teams normally consist of 16 players that sit on the bench until it is their turn to play. As the name suggests it is played on inline skates.

Inline hockey is a very fast paced and free flowing game, this is due to the fact that it does not have the same rules as ice hockey. There are no blue lines or defensive zones in roller hockey unlike ice hockey. This means that there is no offsides or icing that can occur during game play, this along the fewer amount of players on the rink at a time allows for faster game play. There are traditionally two 20 minute periods with a stopped clock.

The highest governing body for the sport is USA Roller Sports which is commonly referred to as USARS. USARS is credited with the development of the present day rules and regulations that is used throughout multiple tournament series. They organize tournaments across the United States but they are not the only tournament provider. Some of the other independent tournament providers include Amateur Athletic Union, North American Roller Championships, and the Torhs 2 Hot 4 Ice tournament series.