can any one explain why does the NHL legue system differ so much then any normal league ?
489975
They put more emphasis this year on games against teams in the same division, and then within the same conference.  The schedule was done like that this year to try to promote divisional rivalries.  It turned out to be very unpopular, so they will most likely go back to having more inter-conference games next year.
730679
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.
1041292
Im not sure what you mean by formats.  The one Im in though is a 2 man keeper league.  We have 10 teams and have a live draft every year.  We set up a trade deadline so teams out of contention couldnt help their friends in the middle of the season.  I am actually kind of opposed to the keeper system though.  I inherited a team and I had horrible keepers 2 years ago.  Ahman Green and vick.  If anything maybe only have one keeper to make it more fair.  Also, scoring is one of the most important things to consider.
339379
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.
149572
My guess is that, compared to other sports that hockey is very similar to (like field hockey and soccer) which use only two periods, hockey required more upkeep of the playing surface. Two periods of thirty minutes would have the ice surface pretty unplayable by the end of the period.
83301
Both sports move fast, but lacrosse uses a hard rubber ball and you throw and catch with a stick that has a small basket at the top. Similar to hockey, the goal is to score more goals than your opponent. \n\nLacrosse also uses 10 players (nine position players and a goalie) where hockey uses six (five position players and a goalie). \n\nA final score of a lacrosse game is usually much higher than a hockey score, typically running into double digits (e.g. 14-11).\n\nHope this helps!
247620
1. Icing is called immediatly when the puck crosses the back goal line instead of the player having to touch the puck.\n2. The team icing the puck can change lines, whereas NHL cannot change lines.\n3. No overtime in preliminary rounds of olympics, so there can be ties.\n4. Overtime in quarterfinals and on, are sudden death, 1 - 10 minute period. 4 on 4 players. If no winner at the end, they have a shootout as the NHL now does, cept they go 5 rounds of shooters instead of 3 as the NHL does.
949318
It has!!!! Most games now are spent batting the puck around or else the old dump and chase game! U don't see many pretty plays anymore!!! I don't know what's up with some of these answers here either, the NHL is coma inducing! The NHL has too many teams and too little talent!!!!
25861
You get into a league(public is a random league, and private is one with an i.d# and password.)Then with a minimum of 4 teams, you can get a "live draft"(one where everyone shows up and chhoses their players on-line)or a automated draft.(each team pre ranks players and the computer determines the teams.)Then, you can trade players, claim them off the free agency and waivers, and then comes playoffs. The commish for private leagues chooses the playoff format. For public leagues, playoff format and point distributation is default. Whoever wins the playoffs wins the league! Have fun next year with FF!
970239
You are dealing with part time officials who get very poor training and the pressure goes up in the playoffs causing them to blunder in a larger scale.\n\nSimply put, they likely make the same errors in the regular season, but the plays don't matter as much and their not under as much of a microscope.\n\nIs a ref favouring one team over another, for any reason...I doubt it.  Sometimes they get their back up when a player accuses them of such and the player's b!tching causes the ref to call against them...vicious circle, IMO, specifically in the case of the Argos.
713136
The NHL season started about 3 weeks ago, most teams have played approximately 15 games or so already.  The 2007 NHL draft was held already.  I'm guessing that you're talking about the Fantasy League drafts that have for the most part already taken place.
489598
I like the new rules to speed up the game. But I don't like calling penalties for playing hard and physical. I don't like the shootout. Not a true test of who won the game. Hockey is a team game not a one on one contest. But from the other side it would be very hard to play 82 overtime games :) I would like to get the commissioner alone and yell at him tell him that falling is not a penalty. I don't like to see players taking a dive to draw bulls_hit calls. (Detroit) I want to see them tweak the rules a bit to allow more hitting without calls. I would also like to see some protection for the goalies. Its open season at the cage without the defense slowing down the forwards. It seems that if you even poke check someone and they hold your stick under there arms its a penalty. That's crap. bottom line is more speed good but its come at the expense of hard nosed play. I can only imagine what Don Cherry thinks.
558034
The above answer is describes our standard head-to-head game. But there are two other variations as well. To describe the difference, let me explain how the standard game is scored.\n\nFor a 10 stat league, say you win 6 and lose 3 of the stat categories and tie in 1 of them. Your record for that week is then 6-3-1.  Records are built up over the season each week. And then you're ranked by win percentage.\n\nFor Plus leagues, we have two more scoring types - we have a "head to head" One Win league as well. Where instead of getting a 6-3-1 record, you'd just be 1-0-0 that week, because you won more stats than your opponent.\n\nFinally, we have a points based head-to-head league. Where instead of raw stats, you get points for each stat. Maybe 10 points for a home run, 3 points per RBI. Then your points are totaled up for the week and whoever has more points, wins the week (1-0).\n\nSo those are the 3 scoring types we have for head-to-head leagues.
588696
There are several differences.  Some are:\n-Canadian field is longer and wider\n-Canadian football is played with 3 downs, American with 4\n-Canadian football is played with 12 men on the field, American is with 11\n-no fair catch rule in the CFL\n-in the CFL, the punter can recover and advance his own kick\n-in CFL you can score a "rouge" (a single point)\n\nIf you'd like more detail, see the link below.\n\nEdit: the play clock in the CFL is only 20 seconds as opposed to 40 seconds in the NFL, so there is less time between plays.
191411
Because this isn't basketball where almost every team makes it in.  If there were more games, it would take longer to do the season, and while you would think it would be popular, extended playoffs actually aren't exciting to most fans.\nRemember, 10 years ago, there were only two divisions in each league and only one playoff before the WS.  The addition of the wildcard and the additional round are recent additions, and exciting ones at that (especially with 4 of the last 5 Champions coming from Wild Card berths).\nHowever, I think 2 additional teams (so lets say a playin game/series between the two wildcards) would add too much time to the playoffs and throw a lot of teams off cycle/rotation.
654226
the population is too small.  their money is worth half of an american dollar which amounts to the player getting paid less.  they have great fans but the teams can't get arenas to fill up unless the more popular teams come to town.  the arenas are costly to build.  the nhl has six canadian teams.
406679
Of course the other first division leagues are better.  Those teams have been around for a hundred years.  The MLS is only 10 years old.  Give it time before you start trying to compare it to the EPL.  It may not be as pretty as the games from other countries, but it is still soccer and still great to watch.  It is also helping move the game along and make the US a more competitive national team. No complaints about it here.