PIM is a system used in hockey to track penalties and stands for Penalty Infraction Minutes. Anytime a player breaks the rules in a hockey game, they will be subject to a penalty which means they will have to sit out of the game for a time period. The PIM will keep track of how…
Many hockey fans have heard the term forecheck, but what exactly is it? what is the different system for it? and what is the Basics Of Forechecking? Here I will explain everything related to Forecheck in detail. Forecheck is a defensive play move that one team will make in the offensive zone in order to…
If you’re new to the rules of hockey, one term you may be confused about is icing. Icing in hockey league is whenever a player shoots the puck from the center red line to the far side of the rink so that it passes the opposing team’s red goal line. Icing is prohibited in ice…
In the National Hockey League (NHL) you have two specific kinds of free agents: Restricted Free Agents (RFAs), technically free agents that can receive offer contracts from teams throughout the league that can then be matched by the team their “player rights” are held by Unrestricted Free Agents (UFAs) that are under absolutely no team…
In hockey, the term hat trick is defined as 3 goals scored in a game by a single player. For a conventional hat trick to be a natural hat trick, the player must score 3 consecutive goals, which means 3 goals in a row. There must be no goals made by either team between the player’s…
I have always been a fan of hockey and hockey rinks, but for the longest time, I never understood what was beneath the ice. How could a rink produce such a near-perfect sheet of ice year-round, even in the hottest states? As it turns out, there is a lot more going on beneath the surface…
When it comes to finding a sport to play, there a variety of options to choose from. When narrowing down those options, it may come down to whether you want to be on the ice or a field. Lacrosse and ice hockey are very different sports and require different techniques and skills that may be a…
When I first started watching the NHL, I found it difficult to decipher the standings. While there are quite a few numbers to make sense of, the most important is “Points” and is abbreviated as “P” or “PTS.” Teams are ranked by the number of points they earn during the season. The standings are simply…
Ice hockey is a sport with timings slightly different from other sports. While most games are played with two halves, ice hockey isn’t. So, How Many Periods In Hockey. In total, ice hockey games take about 2 to 3 hours from the time of dropping the puck to the end of the game, which includes…
Like most major sports leagues in the United States, the NHL has introduced team salary limits. However, that doesn’t mean players in the NHL are stuck with low wages. The average salary for NHL Players is somewhere around $3 million a year; however, most players will not receive this amount. but They get a fairly…
