You can find more info on the NHL schedule here. The league will have a traditional team, best-of-seven playoff format this year, though it will look a bit different thanks to the divisional realignment. The top four teams in each division will qualify for the playoffs and be placed into divisional brackets for the first few rounds of the playoffs No.
The four teams that advance to the Stanley Cup Semifinal known as the Conference Final in a normal year will be seeded by their regular season points total, with the No. This format means, in theory, this year's Stanley Cup Final could feature two teams that typically play in the same conference in a traditional season.
While the NHL elected to employ two hub cities aka "bubble cities" for its return to play in , the league will allow teams to play games in their home arenas during the upcoming season. The NHL will let individual teams decide if they want to allow fans in the arena, and at least one team the Dallas Stars plans on having limited attendance. With less than a month to prepare for the start of the season, there won't be a normal preseason this year.
Training camps will officially open on January 3rd. Teams that didn't make the playoffs last season will be allowed to start December Each team will be allowed to have 36 skaters and an unlimited number of goalies attending training camp. The puck must completely cross the goal line for the goal to count.
It can deflect off of any rink surface, or any part of any player on the ice, including feet, prior to entering the net, and still count as a goal, with a few exceptions: If the puck is deliberately kicked in, or batted in with a hand, the goal will be disallowed.
Also, the puck can't be struck with a stick above the 4-foot crossbar of the net. There are two linesmen on the ice during a game.
It's their job to call off-side and icing see below. Two referees also man every NHL game. They can be differentiated from the linesmen by their bright orange armbands. When a player moves into the opposing team's zone, the puck must cross the blue line before his skates do.
If any attacking player has both skates across the blue line before the puck, off-side is called. This results in a face-off. At the start of each period, and after stoppages in play due to goals, penalties or the puck leaving the rink, play is initiated with a face-off. The centers from each team face each other over a face-off location designated by the official, and the other skaters line up at least 15 feet 4.
The official drops the puck directly between the opposing centers, who then vie for control using their sticks and feet. Hockey has a second form of off-side, known as the two-line pass. As the name implies, a two-line pass off-side is called if a player receives a pass that has crossed one of the blue lines and the center red line before he touches it.
The last "line rule" in hockey is icing. This rule was put into place several decades ago to prevent teams from simply slapping the puck the length of the ice to waste time. If a player shoots the puck into the opposing team's zone from his side of the red line, and the puck crosses the goal line at the other end without anyone touching it, and an opposing player other than the goalie then touches it first, icing is called on the attacking team. This results in a face-off in the attacking team's zone.
But if someone on the attacking team is the first to touch the puck, or if the defending team's goalie touches it first, the icing is waived off.
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