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Rules of NHL HOCKEY Competition

As other sports, there is also a series of rules in NHL games. In a competition of NHL, each team will dispatch six players to play in the hockey ground.

Author: Steven Cherrys

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Each game will cost sixty minutes. Overtime is needed if a winner does not come out after sixty minutes.

NHL competitions proceed on the ground. In a general way; there are six players on the ground at the same time. There are five teams and a goalie in each team, the members all wear ice skates.

It will take sixty minutes to finish a NHL competition. The game can be separated into three parts, each twenty minutes. There is also a suspension of fifteen minutes between each section. 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". The playoff will be promoted in a total number of eight teams, including the three divisions winners and the five teams with high points, altogether eight teams.

The rules of overtime are different in the playoffs. The method of mutual is deleted; replaced by the unlimited twenty minutes overtime of five to five, golden goal is taken again in this part. Theoretically, the game could go on indefinitely, but only a few games had more than four hours overtime, which is no more than six overtime periods.

The season the BHL can be separated into two sections. 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.
Even if the non-Division champion teams qualify for a better performance, the champion of the league will from the first to the third seeds. 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. In the professional sports league, NHL is the only team to lose points in overtime.

The quarter-final game, or the first round of the playoff, the first seed will rival to the eighth seed, the second seed will compete to the seventh seed, the third to the sixth and the fourth to the fifth team. The seeds order will be made up in the second round, which is also called the league's semifinals. 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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Rules of NHL HOCKEY Competition