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Since the 1995–96 season, each team in the NHL plays 82 regular season games, 41 each of home and road. In all, 1,312 games are scheduled (512 of them inter-conference). For the 2021–22 season the NHL regular season formula was adjusted to account for the addition of the Seattle Kraken. Each team plays either three or four games against the ...
Once a game official drops the puck between the two opposing skaters' sticks, they attempt to gain control of it. The face-off procedure differs slightly between NHL and international rules. Prior to the 2015–16 NHL season, the away team's centre was required to place his stick on the ice first.
The goal came at 116:30 of sextuple overtime, for a total of 176:30 of game play. It is also the longest NHL game played, being a mere 3:30 short of the equivalent of playing three games back-to-back-to-back. Normie Smith made an unofficial record 92 saves in that game.
This era has seen three seasons changed due to labour disputes between the NHL and the players' union. The 1994–95 and 2012–13 seasons were shortened to 48 intraconference games, and the 2004–05 season's games were cancelled entirely. According to the 2011 NHL Guide and Record Book, the NHL includes the 2004–05 season in its count of ...
The record for an NHL Stanley Cup playoff game is 28,183, set on April 23, 1996, at the Thunderdome during a Tampa Bay Lightning – Philadelphia Flyers game. [ 71 ] The attendance record for a professional women's game was set on April 20, 2024, when a sold-out crowd of 21,105 people at the Bell Centre in Montreal watched a PWHL game between ...
In 1951, both college basketball and the NBA changed the format of their games to four 10-minute quarters. While the NBA has since kept the format and made each quarter 12 minutes, ...
Sportsnet reported 10.7 million people across Canada watched Thursday night — over a quarter of the country's population — after the six round-robin games averaged 4.6 million viewers in North ...
Overtime (OT) or extra time is an additional period of play to bring a game to a decision and avoid declaring the match a tie or draw where the scores are the same. In some sports, this extra period is played only if the game is required to have a clear winner, as in single-elimination tournaments where only one team or players can advance to the next round or win the tournament and replays ...