MISSISSAUGA, Ontario — The six Azmi sisters are a starting lineup unto themselves.

They could be seen as ball hockey’s answer to the Sutter family, which sent six brothers to the N.H.L. But these hijab-wearing Muslim players in the summer league of the Toronto Women’s Ball Hockey Association — Asiyah, 25; Nuha, 23; Husnah, 21; Sajidah, 18; Haleemah, 17; and Mubeenah, 14 — are much more than that.

Like Nazem Kadri, the first Muslim player to be drafted by the N.H.L.’s Toronto Maple Leafs, the sisters are forcing many sports fans to expand their view of who can go hard to the net.

“People are clearly embracing them,” said Judy Ilcio, who founded the women’s league in 1983. “This truly is the next evolution of who we’ve become in ball hockey.”

The sport is similar to ice hockey — but without the ice and skates. The players in the Toronto women’s league wear helmets, face masks, shin pads, hockey gloves and sneakers as they whack a plastic ball over a concrete floor with a hockey stick. Body checking is illegal, but incidental contact is not.