What is the power play in hockey?
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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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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 new version of the hockey pockey
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Rubber.  Players used to use rubber balls, but they bounced and rolled too much.  With experimentation, they found that slicing the top and bottom off created a puck that slid across the ice and was easier to control.
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It's kind of like fantasy sports, but you control a whole team instead.  It's like Championship Manager, Baseball Mogul, and Eastside Hockey Manager, except the other GMs are real people instead of AI.
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power plays are basically 2 sets of 5overs which the bowling sides when to bring in... Before at the start of an innings 15 overs had fielding restrictions.. meaning only 2 fielders outside the 15yard circle... now.. that 15 overs have been changed to 20.. with 10 (compulsory)at the start of innings and then 2 sets of 5 overs with fielding restrictions.. which could be brought in any time\n\nsupersub is someone who replaces a player anytime in the game .. takes his responsibilities... now.. there is a lot of confusion in it.. it is basically a 12th man which may/or maynot take part in the game straight away/ and it is chosen by the captain before the toss.. so some choose bowlers and other choose batsman.. now.. when the game starts and u batted first (for e.g) and now u have to bowl in the second innings .. and u know u have a bowler as a supersub/.. so what captains do is to replace a batsman wid a bowler.. that way batsman who wouldnt have bowled in the second innings(when they are fielding) is exchanged by a bowler .. whose got his full 10 overs to bowl.. this way a bowler could be changed for a batsman .. depending on the situation... \n\nhope this must have cleared ur doubt
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I think the most talented position is wherever the most talented player happens to be standing.\n\nI play.\n\nI've played forward, usually LW most of the four or five years I've been playing, but recently got put back on D because I've been playing with a bunch of very fast, very capable youngsters and it's a struggle (in my dotage) to keep up with them.\n\nI find D to be a lot more of a thinking position than I thought.  I keep a much larger ice-view, and tend to see plays unfold in both directions.  I find I can better anticipate where the puck will be at any given moment, where it's going, and how to be there and do the right thing.\n\nI've actually had more SOG playing D than I have LW in a while.  I'm more aggressive, and a better player there, which is probably why they moved me (and not just the speed issue).\n\nSo... yeah.  I think centering takes huge skill, endurance and talent.  So does goaltending.  But some of the best hockey players ever have been defensemen (Orr leaps immediately to mind).\n\nYour talent's where the heart and skill are, in the end.
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Power play 1 (Usually, but Tom Renney likes to change it up):\nRW-Jagr\nLW-Straka\nC-Nylander\nD- Ruchinsky\nD- Rozsival (the only right handed shot)\nPP2:\nRW- Prucha (until he got hurt.)\nLW- Sykora\nC- Rucchin\nD- Poti\nD- Tyutin\n\nPKs:\nForwards:\nOrtmeyer and Moore\nRucchin and Ruchinsky\nDefense:\nKasparitis\nPoti\nRozsival\nMalik
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Anything hockey! hehehe
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I have seen several answers of a team with a one man advantage.  This is not entirely correct.  A power play does result when one team is penalized and the opposing team has more skaters on the ice, but it is possible to have a 5 on 3 situation and so on, which definitely shoots down the one man advantage answers.
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a sport to play or watch \nPlay-Hockey\nWatch-football
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Hockey (A PUCK IS A BALL)
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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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Goalie: Patrick Roy\n\nDefence: Ray Bourque, Nicklas Lidstrom\n\nForwards:  Gretzky, Luc Robitaille, and Gordie Howe
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Hockey? They play that in the us?
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Ice Hockey. One of the fastest moving exciting sports.....
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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.