with the shoot out in the nhl, how does it effect players stats?
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YES! the players that score in the shootout do not get a goal added to there stats, as of the other night Huet of the Habs and Auld of the Panthers both received shutouts, but Auld also gets a 1 in the lose column.\n\nalwaysmoo...>>>> and it doesn't go on as a GWG only if he would score in overtime. and the only thing it affects on a goalie is in the Win, lose column if the team scored 2 of 3 it will not be added to the goalies GAA stats.\n\nGO HABS GO!!!!!!!!!!!!1
899617
Yes it will...\n\nI do the same for hockey... I practice with a 10 ounce puck, so when I play a game with a regualation 6 ounce puck, my shot is harder...
134148
True because shot-outs are awesome; and it is a faster moving game.\n\nFalse more goalies are getting hurt (Goalie Here)
395909
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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Best player to play the game period is Bobby Orr. Not only did he dominate the game for a number of years, but he redifined a position. He played an offensive attack from the blueline and did so without negelectling his main responsibility as a defenceman. He won the scoring title from the point and, although the stat was not kept then, would have also won the +/- award in the same year. Unfortunatley injuries cut his career short and robbed us of the greatest player to have ever laced the skates.
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You can swat the ball away if it's still making "upward progress" toward the basket. If it's coming down, swatting it away is goaltending. Just don't foul the shooter.
514502
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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Actually cz was far more accurate. It is up to the last two people that pass it to the one who scores. If a defender touches it then that wipes out the passes. A goal can be UNASSISSTED or can have only one person get the assist. So it isn't the LAST TWO.
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They probably won't next season barring some major disaster. He's doesn't have the speed that Lemaire is looking for, but he does have a booming shot. IF (big if) he is called up, it'll be for a very specific roll - 3rd line sniper or checking line winger... if he's lucky, 2nd line on the 4 man kill.\n\n*and no, I didn't type this twice - Crtl-C, Ctrl-V
864392
No....for a number of reasons......losing Mark Eaton for 2-3 months really hurt...he was becoming the best defenseman they had, and they already miss his shot blocking and penalty killing abilities. They really have no one to take his spot, and Brooks Orpik is being slowly brought back after his hand surgery. Sergei Gonchar has struggled since Eaton was hurt (9 points - 2G,7A, +1 before the injury;3 points - 3A,-3 after it). They don't have the necessary toughness yet, their face-off success is low, they take too many lazy penalties, Marc-Andre Fleury has been somewhat inconsistent (although he'd played several very good games) and their power play has been struggling. Interestingly, Sidney Crosby is not used to kill penalties at this time (thereby leaving their best offensive threat  to languish on the bench for extended periods of time). While Malkin has been shown to be the real deal, his supporting cast has struggled...John LeClare and Mark Recchi two proven scorers in past years) haven't been exactly red hot, and neither has Colby Armstrong. Michel Therrien has tried numeros combinations to get more goals, and he still hasn't been satisfied with the results. They do have a promising team, however, so that while they won't make the playoffs this year, with proper draft choices and trades, they could be a real challenger for the cup in the near-future.
757756
Good luck, I doubt you will get anything back.  There was a bad call in Edmonton the other night that really changed the game.  Bad calls are a part of the game.
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.
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.
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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!!!!
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.
898448
Players Strike/Lock-out
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Also, any penalty minutes accrued even at the end of a period will come into play if the game goes into overtime (they don't clear...). However, penalty minutes with very little or no time left in overtime are essentially stats...