Hints of NHL HOCKEY - By: Andy Steve

The game of the National Hockey League is held in the field. Generally speaking, each team has six players in the field at the same time. Each team has a goalkeeper and five players who all wear skates.
Each formal NHL game will spend sixty minutes. The competition is divided into three sections, each section will cost twenty minutes. Between each section, there is a pause of fifteen minutes. A team will win if its players shoot into the maximum number of goals. If two teams break even in the end of the formal time, overtime will be carried out. After the end of the regular season, the team, which win the most points will be the winner. The league achieved the best record, so was awarded the title of "Presidents' Trophy". Eight teams will go through the playoff, including the winners of three divisions and the tall points of five teams.
In the playoffs, the overtime rules are different. The system of shooting to each other is cancelled and replaced by the five to five unlimited twenty minutes, it take the same golden goal system. In theory, the game could have the possibility to carry on, however, only a few games were as many as four overtime periods and no more than six periods.
NHL season is divided into two parts. One part is set to the schedule of the regular season that is predetermined, the playoff of eliminated the format of four out of seven. The team, which won playoffs in the final round, could get a Stanley champion.
The league champions will from the first to the third seeds, even if the non-division champion teams qualify for a better performance. The seed who rank from the fourth to the eighth will not promoted as a champion of the league. Stanley Cup playoff adopts the method that a team will win if it wins four times in seven games.
There are eighty-two games in the regular season, including 41 games at home and 41 games away from home. One point can be gained by the team in overtime, but there are no points if a team lose its game in regular time. NHL is the only team to lose points in overtime in the sports league of profession.
In he first round of the playoff, or we call it a quarter-final competition, the first seed will compete to the eighth seed, the second to the seventh, the third to the sixth and the fourth to the fifth team. In the second round, or the semifinals of the league, the order of seeds will be rearranged. The third round, conference finals, two teams of each league will be played against the rest of the teams. The winner will have the opportunity to be the champion of the league and get the ticket to the Stanley finals.

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