What’s NHL?

National Hockey League, NHL, is a professional sports alliance composed with North American ice hockey team. NHL is one of the world's highest levels of professional hockey game and it is one of the four major North American professional sports. Teams are divided into East and West regions, each region is divided into three partitions.

Union was established in 1917 in Montreal, Quebec, at first, it established five teams, after a series of extensions, now it has a total of 30 teams, 24 in the United States, six in Canada. Cancel the entire 2004-2005 season because of the players strike, the Union has a successful 2005-2006 regular season and the 2006 Stanley Cup playoffs.

Traditionally, because the Alliance of Canadian descent, most of the players are Canadian. Readily available to the U.S. expansion as well as its high standard compared to other Union and Eastern Europe, behind the Iron Curtain after the fall of the output of the high level players active in NHL, the trend of players in Europe and the United States the number of players has increased significantly. Even so,2005-half of the players in the 2006 season roster still born in Canada

NHL game is in the hockey pitch. In general, each team has six players at the same time on the field, each one wearing skates; a team of five players and a goalie. The goal of the game is called "Puck" hardened rubber disc Launched into the enemy goal of each end of the court and score. Players control objects with one end of the long bar with bent propeller ice hockey. The goalkeeper managed to let hockey into the goal within.

60 minutes per game the regular NHL season. The competition is divided into three sections, each of 20 minutes, a 15-minute pause between each. After the end of the regular 60 minutes, the maximum number of goals the team win.