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Evgeni Malkin
Evgeni Malkin (Евгений Малкин), Russian NHL center, Pittsburgh Penguins since 2006; three Stanley Cups, Hart and two Art Ross trophies, 1,407 points, third in franchise history behind Crosby and Lemieux.
Evgeni Nabokov (Евгений Викторович Набоков)
Evgeni Nabokov (Евгений Викторович Набоков), Russian goaltender from Ust-Kamenogorsk; 697 NHL games, 353 wins, 59 shutouts, Calder 2001, 2008 world gold; now Sharks Director of Goaltending, not in Hall of Fame.
Evgeny Kuznetsov (Евгений Евгеньевич Кузнецов)
Evgeny Kuznetsov (Евгений Евгеньевич Кузнецов), born 1992 in Chelyabinsk, is a Russian center who starred for Traktor, was drafted 26th overall by Washington in 2010, won the 2018 Stanley Cup, and later joined SKA and Sibir in the KHL.
Exodus Pro Wrestling
Exodus Pro Wrestling (NWA Exodus Pro) is a Cleveland, Ohio independent wrestling promotion founded August 12, 2023 by EC3 (Michael Hutter), affiliated with the NWA since December 1, 2023, with Midwest Heavyweight, Tag Team, and Women's titles.
Expansion draft
NHL expansion draft: special draft stocking new franchises' rosters from existing teams' unprotected players. Held since 1967; 2017 Vegas rules change produced the most successful first-year team; Seattle drafted 30 players in 2021.
Eye black
Eye black is beeswax, paraffin, and carbon grease or fabric stickers worn under athletes' eyes to cut glare. First photographed in 1942 on Andy Farkas; a 2003 Yale trial found a small contrast-sensitivity benefit.
Facundo Callioni
Facundo Callioni, Argentine field hockey forward (born 1985, Buenos Aires), 153 caps and 78 goals for Argentina, Olympic gold at Rio 2016 and 10th at London 2012, Pan American champion 2015, club Royal Orée Belgium.
Fanny Rinne
Fanny Rinne (Fanny Rinne-Cihlar), born 1980 in Mannheim, German field hockey player; Olympic gold 2004, four Games 2000-2012, 341 caps, 131 goals, EuroHockey Hall of Fame 2025.
Färjestad BK
Färjestad BK (Färjestad Bollklubb), ice hockey club from Karlstad, Sweden, founded 10 November 1932 as a bandy club. Ten Swedish titles, 21 finals, every SHL season since 1975; home at 8,500-seat Löfbergs Arena.
Farm team
A farm team in professional ice hockey is an affiliated team in a smaller league, used to develop prospects, hold depth players, and backfill injuries during the season.
Fatima Moreira de Melo
Fátima Moreira de Melo, born 1978 in Rotterdam, is a Dutch former field hockey midfielder with 257 caps: Olympic gold 2008, silver 2004, bronze 2000, and the 2006 World Cup, later a PokerStars professional poker player.
Federation of international bandy
Federation of International Bandy (FIB), formerly International Bandy Federation, founded 12 February 1955 in Stockholm by Finland, Norway, USSR, and Sweden; world governing body for bandy, rink bandy, and short bandy, with 28 members and IOC recognition since 2001.
Felice Albers
Felice Albers, Dutch field hockey attacker (born 1999, Amstelveen), AH&BC and Oranje number 10; Olympic gold at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, 2022 World Cup gold, and FIH World Player of the Year 2022.
Felix Denayer
Felix Denayer (Félix Denayer), born 1990, Belgian field hockey midfielder and Red Lions captain; five Olympics 2008-2024, Tokyo 2020 gold, Rio 2016 silver, 402 caps, KHC Dragons club legend.
Fieke Boekhorst
Fieke Boekhorst (Josephine Francisca Maria Boekhorst, born 1957, Helmond) is a Dutch field hockey defender, 1984 Olympic gold medalist, World Cup winner 1978 and 1983, and Netherlands record scorer with 128 goals in 116 caps until 2013.
Field hockey
Field hockey is an 11-a-side stick-and-ball team sport on a 91.40 m by 55.00 m pitch, with modern rules formed in the UK in 1876.
Field hockey at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Men's Olympic field hockey tournament, London 1948, 31 July–13 August. India won its fourth straight gold, beating Great Britain 4-0 in the final at Wembley; Netherlands took bronze over Pakistan via a 4-1 replay.
Field hockey at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Field hockey at Rio 2016, 6–19 August at the Deodoro Olympic Hockey Centre; 12 teams per gender, four 15-minute quarters, shootouts instead of extra time. Argentina won men's gold, Great Britain women's gold, Germany two bronzes.
Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Field hockey at the 2020 Summer Olympics (Tokyo 2020): men's and women's 12-team tournaments at Oi Hockey Stadium, 24 July to 6 August 2021 after COVID-19 postponement; Belgium and Netherlands won gold, India and Great Britain bronze.
Field hockey at the 2026 Asian Games – Women's tournament
Women's field hockey tournament at the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026, 19 September to 4 October. India beat China 1–0 for gold, its first since 1982; Japan took bronze; Deepika led scoring with 21 goals.
Field hockey at the Summer Olympics
Field hockey at the Summer Olympics, also called Olympic hockey tournament, men's event since 1908 London and women's since Moscow 1980; 12 teams each, India leads with 8 men's golds, Netherlands dominant in women's hockey.
Field hockey in India
Field hockey in India: eight men's Olympic golds 1928–1980, 1975 World Cup, governed by Hockey India (2009), Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024 bronzes, revived Hockey India League, Odisha patronage.
Field hockey pitch
Field hockey pitch: the FIH-standard 91.40 m × 55.00 m outdoor playing surface with 75 mm white lines, 23 m lines, circles, and penalty spots; usually water-based synthetic turf since Montreal 1976.
Field lacrosse
Field lacrosse is the outdoor full-field form of lacrosse: men's is full-contact 10-a-side on a 110 x 60 yard field (Beers rules, 1867); women's is 12-a-side on 120 x 70 yards, with its own 1890s rules.
Fighting in ice hockey
Fighting in ice hockey: bare-fisted combat between players, penalized with a 5-minute major in the NHL but a game misconduct (ejection) under IIHF and most amateur rules; rates have declined sharply since a 1987 peak.
Filip Forsberg
Filip Forsberg is a Swedish professional ice hockey left wing for the Nashville Predators. Drafted 11th overall by Washington in 2012, he became Nashville's franchise leader in goals.
Finland men's national ice hockey team
Finland men's national ice hockey team, Leijonat (Lions), Finland's IIHF World Championship and Olympic team since 1928. Five world titles (1995, 2011, 2019, 2022, 2026) and first Olympic gold at Beijing 2022.
Floorball
Floorball, also called innebandy, salibandy, or unihockey, is an indoor hockey-style sport from 1970s Sweden with five field players and a stickless goalkeeper, governed by the IFF since 1986 and played in over 80 countries.
Florent van Aubel
Florent van Aubel (born 1991, Ghent), nicknamed "the magician", is a Belgian field hockey attacker, shirt number 8, four-time Olympian with the Red Lions: silver Rio 2016, gold Tokyo 2020, retired from international hockey after Paris 2024.
Florian Fuchs
Florian Fuchs, born 1991 in Hamburg, is a retired German field hockey forward: Olympic gold 2012 and bronze 2016, European champion 2011 and 2013, four Euro Hockey League titles, 239 caps, 116 goals.