National Hockey League And The Stanley Cup
- Author Sintilia Miecevole
- Published November 27, 2005
- Word count 617
Each team in the NHL plays 82 regular season games, 41 games at
home and 41 on the road. Teams used to play all other teams in
the league at least once, but this will no longer be the case
following implementation of post-lockout changes. Teams will
now play 10 interconference (that is, not in their own
conference) games throughout the entire season, 1 game against
each team in two of the three divisions in the opposite
conference. Teams will also play 40 games against
non-divisional, conference opponents (4 games against each),
and 32 games within their division (8 games against each). Two
points are awarded for wins, one point for losing in overtime
or a shootout, and zero points for a loss in regulation time.
At the end of the regular season, the team that finishes with
the most points in each division is crowned the division
champion. Each Conference consists of three divisions, so these
three division champions and five more teams fill out each
Conference's playoff field. In total, 16 teams (3 division
champions and 5 additional teams, for a total of 8 from each
Conference) qualify for the Stanley Cup Playoffs.
The Stanley Cup Playoffs is an elimination tournament, where
two teams battle to win a best-of-seven series in order to
advance to the next round. If the score is tied at the end of
the third period an overtime period is played. If the score is
tied at the end of an overtime period, additional overtime
periods are played until a winner is determined. Overtimes are
also full periods of twenty minutes (of five-on-five hockey),
rather than the five minutes (of four-on-four hockey, followed
by a shootout,) in the regular season. The overtime is played
with golden goal rule (sudden death) so the game ends as soon
as either team scores a goal. The higher-ranked team is said to
be the team with the home-ice advantage. Four of the seven games
are played at this team's home venue - the first and second,
and, where necessary, the fifth and seventh, with the other
games played at the lower-ranked team's home venue.
One playoff that was contested in the NHL used the following
format: the division winners were seeded one through three, and
then the next five teams with the best records in the conference
were seeded four through eight. However, the league has yet to
announce the playoff format for the 2005-06 season, and with
the new scheduling format that emphasises division play, the
league is reportedly exploring placing greater emphasis on
division standings by taking the top 2 teams in each division,
along with the teams with the next two best records for each
Conference's playoff field. In the event of a tie in points in
the standings, ties are broken first by amount of wins, then by
record against the team that is tied (disregarding the first
game played at the arena of the team that hosted more games
than the other during the season series, if applicable). Next,
the tied team with the better positive differential between
goals scored for and against is given preference, and in the
rare circumstance these tiebreakers are insufficient, the
Commissioner has the authority to devise some other means of
breaking the tie. The first round of the playoffs, or
Conference Quarterfinals, consists of the first seed playing
the eighth seed, the second playing the seventh, third playing
the sixth, and the fourth playing the fifth. In the Conference
Semifinals, the top remaining Conference seed plays against the
fourth remaining seed, and the second remaining seed plays the
third remaining seed. In the next round, the Conference Finals,
the two remaining teams in each conference play each other, with
the Conference champions proceeding to the Stanley Cup Finals.
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