what is the plus/minus in hockey we hear about? how do they calculate that?
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You get a plus if you are on the ice when your team scores at even strength or shorthanded.\nYou get a minus if you are on the ice when the other team scores at even strength or while you are on the powerplay
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LOL at Longnecks answer ...\n\nVery Simply, Hockey is a game placed on the ice (though roller and deck hockey can also be played). A team can suit up 20 players for a game and each team places 6 players on the ice at a time:\n1 Goaltender (who has the job of defending a goal), 2 defensemen, 2 fowards (Left Wing and right wing), and 1 center ice man. Players can come in and out of the lineup on the fly as often as they like.\n\nThere are 3 twenty minute periods in a hockey game followed by a 5 minute sudden death OT if required. If the teams are still tied at the end of OT , they have what is known as a shootout - where players take alternating breakaway shots at the opposing goaltender.\n\nWhichever team scores the most goals wins (each goal is worth a single point). \n\nPlayers are allowed, and in fact are encouraged to use physical contact, called checking, while playing the game. Players are not permitted to hold, grab, use their stick to obstruct or check a player that does not have the puck. If they do so they will get a penalty which is typically 2 minutes (though can be 5 minutes for fighting or a major intent to injure penalty). During that time, his team plays shorthanded with one less player as he serves his penalty.
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According to the official rules published by USA Hockey: \n\n"When a stoppage occurs between the end face-off spots and near the end of the rink, the puck shall be faced-off at the end face-off spot on the side where the stoppage occurs, unless otherwise expressly provided by these rules."\n\nUsually the goalie is on the side of the ice from which the shot came meaning the face-off is in the face-off dot on the side that the shot came from.
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OK what you end up with is a 5 on 3. Of course the goalie can be pulled and make it 5 on 4 with an empty net but that's not likely to be done unless total desperation. So anyway say you have two men sitting already and then get yet another penalty. Well then that player sits in the penalty box BUT his penalty minutes don't start until one of the other guys leave. So say a goal is scored in a 5 on 3. Well now the one is out BUT it is still a 5 on 3 with the start of the last guy's penalty. Of course they always get out of the box in the order they went in. Now I've played hockey video games and had about 2 or 3 guys waiting to serve penalties one time but that's just because I am a violent style player who goes around hitting everyone for no reason and get in trouble for it.
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Multiplication/Division\n+ and + give you a positive answer.\n- and - give you a positive answer.\n+ and - give you a negative answer.\nIf you have an odd number of negative signs your answer will be negative.\nAddition/Subtraction (subtraction is just adding a negative)\n+ and -, the sign will be the sign of the integer with the larger absolute value.  (ex. -4 + 6 = 2, since 6 is bigger than 4 we give the answer a positive sign).\n+ and +, answer will be positive.\n- and -, answer will be negative.\nIt also helps to think about a number line.  Mentally place your first number on the number line; adding a + number moves right and adding a - number moves left on the line.\nHope this helps :-)
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Fatigue - obviously you want to keep fresh legs out there.\n\nScore - if you're up by a few, a coach will put a checking line (4th line) out to give them some ice time.  If you're down by a few, the coach might put all wingers/centers out to generate some offense.\n\nLine Matching - say the opponent puts out their 1st line, you might want to put your 1st or 2nd line out to even things up.\n\nPenalties - a coach on the power play may put out 4 forwards and 1 defenseman, a shorthanded coach might play 4 defensemen.\n\nPuck possession - this is biggest deciding factor.  When a team has the puck (or dumps the puck) in the offensive zone, they will take this opportunity to change.  Usually the defensemen will come off first, followed by the forwards.  It wouldn't make much sense to change up when the puck is by your own net.\n\nA line change can be made at any time (except when a team ice's the puck) for any reason.  Sometimes a coach will mix lines together in the middle of a game just to throw the other coach off or to find some new chemistry between his players.\n\nAgain, lines can be changed at any time, for any reason.  But usually there is a good reason.
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The odds have to do with how much money you need to bet to win 100 on a favorite, or how much you win on a $100 bet on an underdog. A plus is for the underdog (team expected to lose) and a minus is for the favorite (team expected to win).\n\nSo, if a team was -150, you would have to bet $150 to win $100 (would get $250 back). If a team was +150, if you bet $100 and they won, you would win $150 (get back $250).
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Actually, what he is describing is a shootout.  You are describing a "shut out", when a team fails to score a goal.\n\nFirst, each coach selects 3 players for their team in the order they want to go first in the shootout.  The road team shoots first, following by the road team.  In the first three shots, after one team has already scored more times than the maximum allowed for the other team to score, then they are assured a win. For example, the first two shooters for the road team score, while the first two shooters for the home team don't.  The road team wins because they have scored 2 goals while the most the home team can score is 1.  If both teams are tied after 3 rounds, they go to sudden death shootout.  The coaches on the spot select another player to shoot (every shooter, including goalie and backup goalie must shoot before any player may shoot a second time).  The road team still goes first and alternate until there is a point where each team has sent up the same number of shooters in the sudden death and the score is different.  In other words, the shootout wins when, in any one sudden death shootout round, one player scores while the other doesn't.  Despite how many goals are scored in the shootout, the stats aren't added to their season stats, but instead are kept in a shootout archive by the league (this includes shooters and goalies).  Which ever team wins a shootout gets 1 goal added to their game total.  For example, a game 3-3 after overtime is won by Team A in a shootout 3-2.  Team A would win the game 4-3, not 6-5.  The winning team gets 2 points for a win, while the losing team gets 1 point for a shootout loss.
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It boggles my mind that any sport can use some sort of shootout to determine the winner of a hard fought game. You have to just play overtimes until there is a winner end of story. \n\nThe National Hockey League at least has the good sense to play its playoff games to a natural completion by a goal, even thought they use the dreadful shootout in the regular season.\n\nEdit: Very simply modify the rules to allow more subsitutions as the games go into OT's. Also, playing games out will reward the more physically fit team as if you are fatigued it is more likely that you will be scored on.\n\nBasically ending a match based on a single aspect of the game such as penalty kicks is just stupid. Why not have a contest to see who could kick the ball the furthest or who ca ndo the longest throw in? There is simply no argument out there (fatigue or otherwise) that can convince me that a shoot out is the way to end any sporting endeavor..
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A power play in ice hockey and the NHL are the same thing. \n\nWhen one team has a player that takes a minor (2 minute), double minor (4 minutes), or major (5 minutes) penalty that team is forced to play "short-handed" for the duration of the penalty. The team that has the advantage in terms of number of players is said to be on the power play. \n\nThere are some rule changes and variations to how long a power play lasts that depend on the type of penalty taken. Generally though, a power play lasts for the duration of the penalty or until the team on the power play scores a goal, whichever comes first. In the case of 5 minute major, the team on the power play can score as many goals as they want during the 5 minute span that the opposition player is in the box. When a player has taken a doulbe minor, if the power play goal is scored during the first 2 minutes of the power play, whatever remains of the first penalty is taken off the board and the power play clock gets reset to 2 minutes for the second penalty. \n\nA power play can occur whenever one team has more skaters on the ice than the other. So you can have powerplays of the following combinations: \n\n5 on 4 (most common)\n5 on 3\n4 on 3\n\nIn NHL overtime games where both sides have only 4 skaters aside a 5 on 4 powerplay turns into a 4 on 3, and should the team on the penalty kill take another penalty instead of going 4 on 2, the team on the power play is allowed to skate a 5th skater during the duration of the penalty giving them a 5 on 3 advantage.
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An offside is when a player crosses the blue line before the puck and the whistle is blown and a face off is taken just out side the blue line at one of the dots.\n\n__________________________blue line\n           \n------------------O--------------------- red line \n__________________________\nA penalty  is any illegal action usually physical hit to the head tripping etc. or bad sportsmanship the player is sent to the box for a period of time accordingly, 2, 5,10 minutes or the rest of the game or multiple games.
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It is the same as in baseball i think.   You take the total of bases from your hits.  1 for a single 2 for a double 3 for a triple and 4 for a homerun and divide it by the number of at bats.
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u would usually see that in scoreline..\n\nif the score has something written like this: a.e.t (2:0)(1:0)\na.e.t. means after extra time..the first parenthesis are the final score after extra time and the second parentheses are the half time score of the extra time..\n\nand if the score is like this: a.e.t. (1:1)(0:0) 4:2 PSO\nthat means the score was 1:1 after extra time, the (0:0) indicates the score at half time of the extra time which tells us that none of the teams has scored at half time of the extra time and the 4:2 is the score for the penalty shootout..\n\nthis is all u need to know about scoreline i think..
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Above .500 means the team has one win - or more - than losses which is called the winning percentage. The formula is to take the amount of wins and divide that by the total of games played. Overtime losses and regular losses don't matter when calculating the winning percentage.\n\nThe phrase "above .500" basically means playing winning hockey, or any sport for that matter. I've used it in business to describe how I'm working, and in social circles when I'm asked how I'm feeling.\n\nAs for the plus/minus rating, that has to do with how many goals are scored while a player is on the ice. If the players team scores while he is on the ice, he gets a minus (-), and when the opponent scores while he is on the ice, he gets a plus (+). It's meant to indicate how effective players are.
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It really varies from league to league. Stat catagories are determined by the commissioner and the number of points are also determined by the commsioner. Stat catergories are generally goals and assists for players and wins and shutouts for goalies.
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it's the score at half time..\nif the score has something written like this: a.e.t (2:0)(1:0)\nthat means after extra time..the first parenthesis are the final score and the second parentheses are the half time score of the extra time..\nand if the score is like this: a.e.t. (0:0) 1:3\nthat means the score was still 0:0 after extra time and the 1:3 is the score for the penalty shootout..\nthis is all u need to know about scoreline i think..
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4 on 4 for most penalties is correct. recent change is also correct, however thisisan oldrule RE-INSTATEDas well. those old gretzky oilers were so good 4 on 4 they stopped allowing it for a few decades