Line (ice hockey) of players for different situations. Because of the use of lines in hockey, ice hockey rosters have relatively large rosters compared to the number of players on the ice (23 for a typical NHL team, with 20 active on game day and six on the ice at any given time). Only gridiron football has a larger relative roster size (the NFL has 53 players, 46 active on gameday, 11 on the field). Line (ice hockey) In ice hockey, a line is a group of forwards that play in a group, or "shift", during a game. A complete forward line consists
Macedonia men's national ice hockey team Macedonia men's national ice hockey team The Macedonian national ice hockey team (; "Hokejarska reprezentacija na Makedonija") is the national men's ice hockey team of the Republic of Macedonia. They are controlled by the Macedonian Ice Hockey Federation and has been an associate member of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) since 4 October 2001. Macedonia played their first game on 27 March 2011 against Red Star Sofia of Bulgaria in Skopje. They went on to lose the game 4–1. On 20 December 2014, Macedonia played two exhibition games against the Bulgarian U20 national team in Skopje. They lost the