When a player commits a penalty, he serves time in the penalty box and his team plays short-handed, usually with four skaters instead of five. The opposing team then has a power play, a man advantage it tries to exploit by setting up in the offensive zone to create high-quality scoring chances.
The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the NHL and the oldest trophy competed for by professional athletes in North America, first awarded in 1893. It is won through the Stanley Cup Playoffs, a gruelling tournament held each spring in which sixteen teams play four rounds of best-of-seven series; a team must win sixteen games to claim it.
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When a player commits a penalty, he serves time in the penalty box and his team plays short-handed, usually with four skaters instead of five. The opposing team then has a power play, a man advantage it tries to exploit by setting up in the offensive zone to create high-quality scoring chances.
The Stanley Cup is the championship trophy of the NHL and the oldest trophy competed for by professional athletes in North America, first awarded in 1893. It is won through the Stanley Cup Playoffs, a gruelling tournament held each spring in which sixteen teams play four rounds of best-of-seven series; a team must win sixteen games to claim it.
Elite hockey is extraordinarily fast. Players routinely skate over 30 km/h, and the quickest reach nearly 40 km/h in open ice, where NHL tracking has clocked top speeds around 40 km/h. Shots are faster still: a hard slapshot regularly exceeds 160 km/h (100 mph), and the record hardest shot, fired by Zdeno Chara at an All-Star skills competition, was measured at 175.1 km/h (108.8 mph).
The objective of ice hockey is to score more goals than the opposition by shooting the puck across the opponent's goal line and into a net guarded by a goaltender. Each team dresses six players, three forwards (left wing, centre, right wing), two defencemen and a goaltender, though teams rotate roughly four forward lines and three defensive pairings throughout a game.
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