Good Teams of Ice Hockey - By: Helen Greens

Sixth, we have to talk about the specification size and regional division of ice hockey. Ice hockey court located in a area, where the length is sixty-one meters and the width is thirty meters. And the venue surrounded by cement ground from one hundred and nineteen centimeters high to one hundred and twenty-two centimeters high wooden boundary wall. The middle of the court has a red line of thirty centimeters, called the centre line; it divides the court into two halves. The half court where your own team goal locates is called the second half, or called half of the team. The opponent's half of the field or the first half locates in the place where their own goal is. Two sides of the midline rest a blue line, which is thirty centimeters wide, it is partition line. The whole ice hockey court can be divided into three parts by the standardization of partition line, the offensive zone, the defensive zone and the central zone. The defensive zone is a place where your own goal locates; it is also the attack zone of the other party. Mid court is between the two sides' central region. There is a red line with five centimeters on both ends of the court, we call it the goal line. At the middle place of this red line, it is the goal line.
Seventh, a round of competition will last sixty minutes and the competition can be divided into three bureaus, each about twenty minutes. There will also be a break of fifteen minutes. At the end of the third bureau, if the score remains unchanged, it will step into the overtime progress, about five minutes. The method of sudden-death is used in overtime, the side who advance a ball first will be the winner. If two sides all fail to score, it will use the method of mutual kick. Each game will have two teams to participate, each team is generally composed of twenty-three players, but only six people will go to the court to play. According to the position, there is a goalkeeper, two defenders and three forwards. Regardless of the referee; the players can replace their team members at any time during a game.
National hockey league were founded in the year of 1917, with a total number of five teams. A series of expansion, dissolution and migration later, there are thirty teams now. In the United States, there are twenty-four teams, in Canada, there are six teams. In the history of ice hockey, Montreal Canadian team is the most successful team that won twenty-four times of the Stanley Cup. Among the four major professional sports in North America, Montreal Canadian team is the only winner who wins over the number of Major League Baseball of New York Yankees. The second successful team is the Toronto Maple Leaf, won a total number of thirteen Stanley Cups. But after 1967, it never won. The most successful American team was Detroit Red Wing, it won the Stanley Cup for ten times.
Nowadays, there are two alliances of NHL teams and they are Eastern alliance and Western alliance. There are three competition zones of each alliance, each zone will own five teams. We can know today's division by comparing to the hockey season from 1998 to 1999. After a reform, the alliance increases two partitions, so there are six partitions now. There are thirty teams of NHL currently, such as Eastern Conference, Atlantic, New Jersey Devils, New York Islanders, New York Rangers, Philadelphia Flyers, Pittsburgh Penguins and Northeast. In the world of hockey, countries such as Canada, the United States and Russia are in the leading place. For ice hockey athletes, it is important to own some abilities, such as strength, endurance, speed, skill, determination, courage and other qualities.

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