what's power play in ice hockey?
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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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goal against your team when you are on the ice -1\n\ngoal for your team when you are on the ice +1\n\n\nIf you are on a good team, your +/- gets high\n\nIf your team sucks, your +/- might be quite low\n\nGood point, silverbullet - and although they'll never do this, I think it should be -0.5 if you are scored on while short-handed, and +0.5 if you score when on the power play.  And it should be -1.5 if you are scored on while on a power play, and +1.5 if you score while short-handed.  Just my opinion.  LOL
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+/- is easy.\n\nIf you're on the ice when your team scores, you get a +1\n\nIf you're on the ice when the other team scores, you get a -1\n\nThe only EXCEPTION is if you or the other team has a power play, in which no one gets + or -.
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In hockey, a game of power, finesse and speed played on ice, scoring goals are a priority item. A team is awarded a goal when a player shoots the puck past the opposition's goalie and into the goal. The goal itself, often referred to simply as the "net," measures four feet tall (1.22 meters) and six feet wide (1.83 meters). If someone scores a "hat trick" in hockey, it means that a player has scored three goals in one game.\n\nThe team with the most goals at the end of a hockey game is declared the winner. Hockey is one of the few sports that allows a game to end in a tie. Scoring one goal in a game of hockey is an admirable feat; scoring three goals in a hockey games is a rarity. Many players go their entire career without even coming close to scoring a hat trick. Hockey statisticians keep track of both team and individual highlights during a season. For one scored goal, a statistician will award a player one point. The player who passes the puck to a player who scores is awarded an "assist" by the stat man and also receives a point. While assists are a vital part of hockey and carry the exact same weight (one point) as a goal itself, assists are never taken into play when discussing a hat trick. A hat trick is based on goals alone.\n\nWhen a player in the National Hockey League (NHL) scores a hat trick, the fans, as a custom, toss their hats or caps on to the ice as a sign of their appreciation and respect. It's their way of recognizing the rarity of this feat. Hall of famer Wayne Gretzsky, had fans tossing their hats to the ice many times during his storied 20-year career. Of the many NHL records Gretzsky owns, the fact that he scored 50 hat tricks from 1979-1999 may be the most amazing. Akin to the grand slam in baseball, a hat trick is a feat fans will not often witness, but when they do, they won't soon forget.\n\n\nAnother link said:\n\nWatching a hockey player charge down the ice and slap the puck past a floundering goalie for his third goal of the game is one of the most exhilarating plays in all of sports. The term used to describe such a feat, "hat trick," has long been linked to hockey, and, after a bit of searching, we discovered its unusual origin.\n\nWe first visited the Word Detective, the online version of the popular newspaper column written by Evan Morris. He says the term came from the English game of cricket and cites The Oxford English Dictionary, which explains: "The feat of a bowler who takes three wickets by three successive balls: originally considered to entitle him to be presented by his club with a new hat or some equivalent."\n\nWe next checked out an article titled "Puck talk: A guide to hockey lingo" from The Dallas Morning News. In addition to learning that the terms "mucker," "pipe-fitter," "plumber," and "grinder" are interchangeable, we unearthed another interesting tidbit about the term "hat trick."\n\nIn the article, John Halligan, an NHL executive who writes a hockey trivia column for the NHL web site, says in the 1940s, a Toronto haberdasher used to give Maple Leaf hockey players free hats when they scored three goals in a game. Halligan also agrees that the term "hat trick" probably evolved from cricket.\n\nSo, what happens to all those hats that litter the ice? Well, it seems Dave Kindred, a columnist at The Sporting News, has been asked that question a few times. As we would have guessed, the hats are usually given to charities.\n\nHe shoots, he scores, he wins a hat.
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Ice hockey\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia\nJump to: navigation, search\nFor the NES video game of the same title, see Ice Hockey (video game).\nIce hockey, referred to simply as "hockey" in Canada and the United States, is a team sport played on ice. It is one of the world's fastest sports, with players on skates capable of going high speeds on natural or artificial ice surfaces. The most prominent ice hockey nations are Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Russia, Slovakia, Sweden and the United States. While there are 64 total members of the International Ice Hockey Federation, those seven nations have dominated ice hockey. Of the sixty medals awarded in men's competition at the Olympic level from 1920 on, only six did not go to one of those countries (or a former entity thereof, such as Czechoslovakia or the Soviet Union) and only one such medal was awarded above bronze. [1]\n\nIce hockey's worldwide popularity is concentrated primarily in locales cold enough for natural, long-term seasonal ice cover. It is one of the four major North American professional sports, represented by the National Hockey League (NHL) at the highest level. It is the official national winter sport of Canada, where the game enjoys immense popularity. Six of the thirty NHL franchises are based in Canada, but Canadians currently outnumber Americans in the league by a ratio of almost three to one, and about thirty percent of the league's players are non-North Americans. The sport's popularily in the US is centralized in certain regions, notably the Northeast, the Upper Midwest, and Alaska.\n\nContents [hide]\n1 History \n1.1 Foundation of the modern game \n1.2 The Professional Era \n2 Equipment \n3 Game \n4 Penalties \n5 Tactics \n6 Periods and overtime \n7 Women's ice hockey \n8 Sledge hockey \n8.1 Sport description \n8.2 History of sledge hockey \n9 International competition \n10 Hockey in popular culture \n11 Attendance Records \n12 Terminology \n12.1 Statistics \n12.2 Personnel \n12.3 Rink \n12.4 Penalties \n12.5 Shot types \n12.6 Game play/random \n12.7 Equipment \n13 See also \n14 External links \n15 Notes \n \n\n\n[edit]\nHistory\n \nDutch burghers playing a game that looks much like ice hockey. \nDutch burghers playing a game that looks much like ice hockey.Games between teams hitting an object with curved sticks have been played throughout the world since prehistoric times. The word "hockey" has been used since the 16th century, but its etymology is uncertain. It may derive from the Old French word hoquet, shepherd's crook, but it may also derive from the Middle Dutch word hokkie which is the diminutive of hok, meaning literally shack or doghouse, but which in popular use meant goal. Many of these games were developed for fields, though where conditions allowed, they were also played on icy conditions , as shown in 16th-century Dutch paintings where a number of townsfolk play a hockey-like game on a frozen canal\n\nEuropean immigrants brought various versions of hockey-like games to North America, such as the Scottish sport of shinty, and the closely-related Irish sport of hurling. Where necessary these seem to have been adapted for icy conditions; for example, a colonial Williamsburg newspaper records hockey being played in a snow storm in Virginia. Both English- and French-speaking Canadians played hockey on frozen rivers, lakes, and ponds using cheese cutters strapped to their boots, and early paintings show hockey being played in Nova Scotia. There are claims that ice hockey was invented in Windsor, Nova Scotia and named after an individual, as in 'Colonel Hockey's game'[2]. Proponents of this theory point out that the surname Hockey exists in the district surrounding Windsor, though this is an unlikely coincidence. Author Thomas Chandler Haliburton wrote of boys from King's College School in Windsor playing "hurley on the ice" when he was a student there around
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HAHA!! It IS NOT Power Forward, if you read the question you would see that it said STATS... ITS Personal Fouls!!!
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when the other team has less players on the ice than your team because of a penalty. try  www.nhl.com/rulebook/ for more info.oh and if you have never really watch hockey before try watching a NHL game, it tends to be more entertaining.
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When a player is on the ice, they record the number of goals for and against his team. If his team scores more than they are scored against while he is on the ice, he has a postive number.
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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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Beverly - they play 3 periods, unless there's a tie.  If the game is tied after 3 periods, they play one 10 minute overtime period.  If it's still tied after the overtime, there will be a shoot out (5 players from each team will be selected).  \n\nIf still tied, each team will select a player that has not participated in the shootout and they will have an opportunity.  A single player from each team will participate in the shootout until a player from one team scores and the corresponding player from the other team does not.
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Hockey No Doubt. It Is Legal To Check You, It Is Legal To Fight ( It Results In A 5 Min Penalty But Talk To The Players And Its Worth It )You Have To Know How To Ice Skate, ( Which Can Be Murder On Your Ankles Especially If You Dont Know How To Skate ) Oh And Did I Mention The Puck Comes At You At Speeds Of 98 MHP?!!!!!! Yes Its Hockey
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Group A: Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Switzerland and Italy. \n\nGroup B: Sweden, Slovakia, USA, Russia, Latvia and Kazakhstan. \n\nRules:\n\nIn the Olympics, tied playoff games are followed by ten minutes of sudden death overtime. If the game remains tied, it is decided by a shootout. An Olympic hockey shootout uses five shooters from each team.\n\nThe international ice is 210 feet long and 98 feet wide. Goal lines are 13 feet from the end boards. \n\nGoaltenders can play the puck anywhere behind the net. \n\nInternational hockey uses "no touch" icing. Sponsored Links\nThe play is whistled down as soon as the puck crosses the goal line. \n\nWhen a penalty shot is called during Olympic hockey, any player on the shooting team may be selected to take it. \n\nPlayers fighting in Olympic hockey receive a match penalty and are ejected form the game. \n\nMost of the rest of the rules are similar to the NHL.\n\nFormat:\n\nRound robin play within each group.\n\nThen the following playoff schedule:\n\nWednesday, Feb. 22 \nQuarterfinal (A1-B4)\nQuarterfinal (A2-B3)\nQuarterfinal (B1-A4)\nQuarterfinal (B2-A3)\n\nFriday, Feb. 24 \nSemifinal(winner A1-B4 vs. winner B2-A3) \nSemifinal(winner B1-A4 vs. winner A2-B3)\n\nSaturday, Feb. 25 \nBronze Medal Game\n\nSunday, Feb. 26 \nGold Medal Game
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goals scored by your team while you are on the ice is +1.  a goal scored against your team while you are on the ice is -1.  added up, that is your plus/minus ratio.  its a measure of the players presence on the ice.
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Icing is when a player from the offensive team controls the puck before reaching the center ice line.  He shoots the puck all the way down behind the opposite goal WITHOUT anybody on the defending team being able to play the puck prior to crossing the goal line.  Often, the linesmen will wave off the icing if the player is within 2 feet of the center line prior to dumping the puck.  Also, an icing can only be called when the offensive team is either on the powerplay or at an even strength situation.  The puck then goes either to the left or right of the goaltender of the team who shot the puck depending on which side of the rink the puck was touched up on.\n\nAn offside is when a player controls the puck completely crosses the blue line after another offensive player completely crosses it.  If the player doesn't have control of the puck when it crosses the blue line, it is a delayed offside.  All offensive players must then touch up at the blue line at the same time before going back into the offensive zone and playing the puck.  Play is only stopped on a delayed offside when an offensive player makes contact with the puck before all teammates touched up at the same time prior to contact.  If an offside is called, the puck is dropped at one of the two blue circles next to the blue line, again depending on which side of the ice the offsides occured on.
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The other team.\n\nIf a hockey player rams the puck into his team's goal, the other team gets the points.\n\nIf a football player runs into his own end zone, depending on how they recover the ball, the other team gets the points.
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This is a good question and your powerplay question ties in on why they lost. I very rarely say this but the announcers were right on in saying that Edmonton was not afraid to take penalties last night because san jose was not making them pay on the power play. The Sharks looked flat! Their passes were horrible, the weren't skating like they wanted in in the offensive zone and not coming back hard enough in the D- Zone, and to boot Toskala was horrible! He is done its time to put a goaltender that is play off tested in! Thats Nabokov!I think the Sharks blew it this series is over. They had control, they gave it up and now the oilers have the control going into a building that the sharks looked terrible in. They can't score on the power play because they don't shoot the puck! Its basic hockey teachings, good things happen when you shoot the puck, and when you get to fancy its can go very bad!
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If your team scores with you on the ice you get a +\nIf the opposing team scores with you on the ice you get a -