NHL Competition System

Competition System 
NHL season is divided into two parts, Philadelphia Flyers one is carried out in accordance with pre-designed schedule of the regular season, San Jose Sharks as well as a seven-fight knockout to win a playoff, winning the final round of the playoffs, teams will be awarded for the history of Stanley Cup.
In the regular season, each team will be carried out 82 games Washington Capitals; 41 games at home, 41-game road trip. From the 2005-06 season, regular season began, each team will play with the sub-region fighting hand to hand 32 games, 40 games on a different partition on the same Association, 10 games inter-club competitions (three sub-areas with different associations of two a partition of all the teams engaged in a race). The annual Association of two partitions will be cross-turns, similar to the U.S. Major League Baseball games across the League. Are to be cumulative for each match points to win the team received two points to extend the Canadian team had a tournament to lose points in the regular time, the team will have nothing to lose revenue points. Among the professional sports league, NHL is the only team to lose the playoff points to give the alliance.
In the regular season after the partition is the most points the team the division title. The best record in the league were awarded "Presidents' Trophy". The three division winners of each Association and the five points the second highest total of eight teams in a single Federation teams will playoff appearance. Division champions will be the first to the third seed (even for non-division winners advance team performance good), rather than division winners advance to the eighth seed who ranked fourth. Stanley Cup playoffs is the four-seven knockout wins, winner advance to the next one. The first round of the playoffs, or is that the Federation 1 / 4 finals, the first eighth seed to seed, the second pair of seventh, third on the sixth, fourth fifth team. In the second round, that is, the Federation semifinals, seeds, rearrange the order, leaving the team's best record on the last record, and so on. The third round, the Federation Championship, the Federation of the remaining two teams will play against the winner shall be the Federation champion, gaining access to Stanley Cup championship tickets.
A higher ranking for each team will get home-court advantage, seven games in four games at home in this team, the first and second, fifth and seventh, if necessary. The other three games in each other's Stadium match.
Rules
The normal match time divided into 3 sections, each 20 minutes, as in section 3 remains unchanged from the end of the score is going into overtime, when a long 5 minutes. With a sudden-death overtime, advanced the ball which party wins. If the two sides failed to score a penalty is applied in each shot showdown.
Abolish the penalty shoot-out playoffs, replacing the 20-minute overtime unlimited number of times, until the one goal so far.
Displayed in the Hockey Hall of Fame's Stanley Cup
Currently, 30 teams NHL
Major League East race area (Eastern Conference)
Atlantic Division (Atlantic):
New Jersey Devil team (New Jersey Devils)
New York Islanders Team (New York Islanders)
New York Rangers (New York Rangers)
Philadelphia Flyers Team (Philadelphia Flyers)
Pittsburgh Penguins (Pittsburgh Penguins)
Northeast District (Northeast):
Boston Bruins (Boston Bruins)
Buffalo Saber Team (Buffalo Sabres)
Montreal Canadiens Team (Montréal Canadiens)
Ottawa Senators (Ottawa Senators)
Toronto Maple Leafs (Toronto Maple Leafs)
Southeast Division (Southeast):
Atlanta Thrashers (Atlanta Thrashers)
Carolina Hurricanes team (Carolina Hurricanes)
Florida Panthers (Florida Panthers)
Tampa Bay Lightning team (Tampa Bay Lightning)
Washington Capitals (Washington Capitals)
Western District Major League games (Western Conference)
The part of the District (Central):
Chicago Blackhawks (Chicago Blackhawks)
Columbus Blue Jackets (Columbus Blue Jackets)
Detroit Red Wings (Detroit Red Wings)
Nashville Predators Team (Nashville Predators)
St. Louis Blues Team (St. Louis Blues)
Northwest Division (Northwest):
Calgary Flames (Calgary Flames)
Colorado Avalanche (Colorado Avalanche)
Edmonton Oil Engineering teams (Edmonton Oilers)
Minnesota Wild Team (Minnesota Wild)
Vancouver French team (Vancouver Canucks)
Pacific Division (Pacific):
Anaheim Ducks (Anaheim Ducks)
Dallas Stars (Dallas Stars)
Los Angeles Kings (Los Angeles Kings)
Phoenix Wolf Team (Phoenix Coyotes)
San Jose Sharks (San Jose Sharks)