Play the sport of ice hockey in a board game designed for players to out coach their opponents by creating line-ups at the start of the game using a list of skill levels for their individual figures.
Team names and individual player names can be created and used to keep statistics as leagues and competitions are developed between game players. After the game starting face-off is completed, game players move figures around the ice pad, followed by action stages in the form of poke-checking, body checking, passing and shooting.
The game continues with this rotation between offence and defence players being moved and the action stages being done when chosen by a game player.
Fighting, penalties, turnovers and saves by netminders are also actioned throughout the game, bringing all of the elements from the sport of ice hockey to the table top with Ice Hockey with Dice.
—description from the publisher