Why during the ice hockey competition, both teams keep on changing players, except the goal keeper?
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Its very tiring to skate back and forth on the ice, so they rotate people in and out to give them a rest.  The goalies dont skate around much, and so dont get as tired.
522658
This rule eliminates the "cherry pickin" of the game.\nIf there wasnt offsides there would be a player of the opposit team standing next to your goalie waiting for a pass. \nIf the forward gets a pass from his teamate and he is passed the last defender when he recieves the pass it is offsides.\n\nI think i just confused you even more
1153343
cos they're special... its really to identify who they are - a goalkeeper. its so players dont get confused and so the refs dont get confused either, which keeps them more distinguished from the rest of their teammates. i used to play soccer myself and one thing i learnt from that experience is so that they are able to tell them apart from the rest. u know that they're the goalie that way.
58981
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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Each team is different.
15734
Teams are allowed to carry 23 players on their active roster, but only 20 can be eligible to play in each game. So there are usually six defensmen, twelve forwards, and two goalies avaliable for each team in any given game. Only six players from each team can be on the ice at one time, including the goalies, if both teams are at full strength. Penalties can reduce each team to a minimum of four players, including goalies.
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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.
804103
Hockey players are young men picked right off the frozen ponds of "anywhere the water freezes" They are not - would-be-lawyers.... They are not would-be-doctors or dentists or shoe-polishers... / They don't have the luxury of a back-up career if this one doesn't work out...... / They don't spend 4 years in college negotiating a pro career.............\n\nTHEY KNOW!!! That this is it!!! This is all they ever wanted to be... and that this is what they were born to do. Without it... they'll be flipping burgers at their hometown McDonalds so they give everything they have. EVERYTHING.\n\nThis is also what makes hockey the greatest sport on planet Earth!
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The goalie must leave the field\n\nIf the team has a substitution left, it can pull a player from the field and send in their backup goalie.\n\nIf they don't have any substitutions left, one of the players from the field will put on the goalie's jersey and play goalkeeper (very rare, but I've seen it happen)
910073
Unllike most other sports, hockey players can only play for about 2 minutes straight before getting EXTREMELY tired. Changing players often has to be done "on the fly" if there has not been a stoppage in play for a while and can be tricky -- it can lead to a defensive error or a penalty for too many men on the ice. A goal however, is a stoppage in play and an opportunity to get fresh legs out there!
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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
849252
It's called being a responsible player.  Doing what you can to disrupt the flow of play for the Other team, which interference of the type you're talking about does, is universal in the nhl.  Are there other ways? Sure! But He, and Other players make Life difficult for the teams they play, and That is the goal of those actions. And he is Neither the Only player to do it or the Most flagrant.  Watch Sidney Crosby sometime.  Or Peter Forsberg.  There are Tons of nhler's who do that kind of thing.\n\nGo Rangers!\n\nUncle Mike.
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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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The 4 teams in each group play each other.  The two teams with the most points (win 3 pts, undecided 1 pt) advance to the next round.  If 2 teams have the same number of points, they look at their goal difference (goals made vs. goals against).  If that is also the same, they look at the result of the game played between the 2 teams.  If they played to an "undecided", then they raffle off the next round.  Sounds unfair, but what else is there - a "drink-off"??  THAT would be cool, though....
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Some of these answers are right on. Linesmen do not step into the middle of heavyweights throwing bare-knuckle meathooks. They could literally get killed.\nWhen 2 players both drop their gloves to scrap, they are willing to go and the linesmen let them go.\nIf you watch more closely, you will see them step in AS SOON AS one player is at a disadvantage, or does not want to fight. They do not want anyone to get injured. And most hockey players will not keep pounding away after their opponent is down or if the linesmen have broken it up.\nOn some occasions you see some extra shots and most of the time it is because the other guy deserved it for other liberties taken in the past.
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its like a penalty corner\n4 defenders + goalie are allowed to stay in the goal\nand everyone else must been in the other half\none person from the attacking team drags the ball from the 2nd line next the goal, and the other players must wait before the ball comes out the D to touch the ball
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If a goalie gets sent off (which is actually common) then the team who have lost their goalie will sacrifice one of their oother players and sub him off in replce of their back-up goalie they will therefore play the game with 10 men just as if any other player had got sent off.