In the NHL, if a team is on a 2 min. power play and a goal is scored, is the power Over?
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yes it is. the goal nulifies the penalty
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The Oilers lost the series when they lost game 1.  \n\nThey lead 3-1 at the end of the second period of game 1.  They allowed Carolina to score 4 goals (3 of them past Roloson in a span of less than 9 minutes) in the third period and win game 1.\n\nIf you're up by 2 goals at the end of the second period, and you aren't good enough to finish it off and win the game, you aren't going to win the series.  If you cannot hold a two goal lead for 20 minutes, you're not a good enough team.\n\nCarolina played a great game 7, they beat the Oilers, the Oilers did not blow game 7.  It was blowing game 1 that was the problem.
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The most confusing rule is OFFSIDE. This mainly means that an opposing player cannot be closer to the other team's goalie than that teams defensemen. He cannot take the pass from his teammate and go ahead if he is in an OFFSIDE position. This is the job of the linesmen (referees) to see and wave their flags. The linesmen also decide which team gets the THROW-IN, if there is a CORNER KICK or if the ball goes to the goalie for a KICK-IN. PENALTY SHOTS are awarded if a player is tackled unfairly in the goal area or if a defenseman touches the ball with his hand within the goal area. Yellow cards, warnings, are given by the referee for a lot of reasons, but mainly for dangerous play or for protesting or for delaying the game. Two warnings in the same match result in a RED card, meaning the player has to leave the field. There are more details but I think I covered the important points. Points are usually 3 for win, 1 for tie and 0 for loss.
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Ok.. but in REAL life... a hockey game will last (with commerial breaks, penalties, etc) about 2.5 hours.
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Yeah, hockey is pretty dumb.  What would happen if the violence were eliminated?  Bet people would quit watching.  Maybe they should just let the players bludgeon each other to the death, then "Game Over".
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There is no time limit and the time depends on how even the teams are in talent, if one is considerably better it can end in half an hour, if they are equal it can last  a bit longer than a hour.
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When the opposing team has a player in the penalty box... the team at full strength has the "power play".  Since they have one more player on the ice, that gives them a better chance to score.  The team with one less player (sometimes 2 if there are 2 in the penalty box) is in what is refered to as the "penalty kill" since they are trying to kill the time on the clock with out letting the other team score.  If a team scores during the power play, the player in the penalty box gets to come out even if his time is not up yet.
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You'd better believe it ;).  Actually, when teams are desperate in the final few minutes, they may go empty net and the goalie will help the attack.\n\nYours,\n~Zac
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No.  Every time you score a goal during a major penalty, the remaining time is considered an additional power play opportunity.  PP Efficiency is calculated by dividing the number of power play goals by the number of power play opportunities.  Assuming that in your example the major penalty was the only penalty of the game,  the power play team would be 3-3 on power play chances or 100% efficiency.
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And if I may add to spyguy....\n\nA bench minor (2 minutes) is issued when the goalie fouls another player or a team is caught with too many men on the ice.  Any player from the offending team may serve the bench minor (usually the guy who pissed off the coach during practice).\n\nSome cases warrant a "double minor".  If a player is hit with a high stick and this causes an injury (usually bleeding), he is given two 2-minute penalties back-to-back.  If the fouled team scores before the first 2 minutes are up, then the offender begins serving the second half of the penalty (confusing, I know.  It gets worse...).\n\nUsually when a major (5 minutes) penalty is issued, it is to both teams (fighting).  However, when only one team is issued a major (head-butting, spearing), that player must remain in the box until all 5 minutes are up.  Even if the opposing team scores 1 second later, he has to sit there for 4:59.\n\nGame misconducts (10 minute variety) require the player to be removed to the locker room until it expires.  These can be given for the same reason as a minor, major, or 3 majors in one game.  The offending team does not play shorthanded, but can't use that player until the penalty time expires.\n\nMatch misconducts (go take a shower and bench major) are even more rare.  These are usually given to a player who refuses to listen to a ref, gets 3 game misconducts, hits a ref, "kills" another player (like Bertuzzi did 2 years ago), hits an opposing coach... pretty severe stuff.  This is all up to the discretion of the ref.  Then the ref has to fill out a lengthy form explaining the whole situation and the player is suspended at least 3 games.\n\nAnd on top of that, all (except minors) penalties carry with them some kind of fine:\n\nMajor - $100\nGame - $200\nMatch - $1000\n\nAnd I still haven't covered everything, but that's it in a nutshell.
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Still sudden death OT - 20 minute periods until someone wins - not much better than playoff hockey
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Very 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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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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they can ice the puck because they are one man short.  The team who has the man-advantage must still be able to control the puck well enough to set up scoring opprotunities, but if the team whose player caused a penalty is able to steal the puck, they are allowed to ice it as a defense strategy.\n\nIt is fair because a penalty only gives the opposing team an advantage--it does not give that team a sure thing (i.e., an automatic chance at scorign a goal), unless of course, it is a penalty on a breakway--which results in a penalty shot.
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To continue "soccer_mind"'s answer, there would be no accurate way to count stoppage time if the clock ran down.  \n\nNegative time?  Who builds clocks like that?\n\nCounting up after counting down?  Players and the ref could become confused as to how much time is left.\n\nIn sports like hockey and basketball where the clock only moves when game play occurs, this isn't a problem and the clock can count down.  But football (the world game) allows the clock to continue when play is stopped.
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A lot of NHL playoff games can be dull and the playoffs last too long, but there is nothing, and I mean NOTHING that compares to the sudden death overtimes games the NHL produces.  \n\nBasketball OT?  Straight time, it's nothing special.\n\nBaseball OT?  Taking turns until somebody's ahead.  Nothing special.\n\nFootball OT (North American)?  You gotta be kidding.  Sudden death in the NFL is a joke.  At least the US college football OT is interesting.\n\nSoccer/football OT?  It's sudden death, but only for so long and then ends in a pathetic shootout.  Dull, dull, dull.\n\nIn 1994, I remember Hockey Night in Canada finishing their coverage of one NHL playoff game, and the announcer said, "We'll go to New Jersey for the conclusion of that game."  The game was 0-0 late in the third period, approximately 10:30EST.  \n\nFirst overtime, no score, both teams going flat out for twenty minutes: hitting, skating, checking, taking chances.  Nobody played it safe.  Second, no score again and twenty minutes of more furious action.  Third OT, the same thing; they had now played double the length of a game without a goal.  Fourth OT, same again.  FIFTH OT, and at almost nine minutes, Buffalo's Dave Hannan scores a cracker of a goal to win 1-0.  The game never had a dull moment, the two goaltenders facing over 120 shots between them (an average of 8 per period).\n\nThe game ended at *5:00AM* EST.  NOBODY left the arena until the end, and Hockey Night in Canada said most viewers stayed on until the end of the broadcast.\n\nPittsburgh/Philadephia, NY Islanders/Washington, it doesn't seem to matter which teams are involved.  EVERY SINGLE MARATHON OT game in NHL history has been a classic and decided by a beautiful goal with no controversy.  (Controversy only comes in the short OT games, like the Dallas/Buffalo game six that decided the cup in 1999.)  Watching an entire playoff season just to witness one game like this is worth it.
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That number represents the minute of the game at which they scored the goal.  If, for example, the number says 71', that means the goal was scored 71 minutes into the game!\n\nThat's all there is to it!