he goes onto the ice to help his teammates. The majority of the time when a player is in the penalty box the other team will score a goal. If they score one then the player who committed the penalty will be allowed out. If a team scores the player is on he will stay there and that is called a short-handed goal. When a player is in there then the offending team has the power play. Some times the players do something really bad like fighting so they might be thrown out of the game and they will each have an even amount of players on the ice. At the end of each game a goalie usually gets pulled out of the game because if he does then they will get an opportunity for six players to be on the ice. When the goalie comes out then all the other teams have to do is throw the puck down the ice. (Rules, 1) In the game of hockey when a team has fewer players, it really affects them because they are all arranged to do something else and different people to guard. If someone is gone it will affects them a lot. Teammates get lots of penalties because hockey is a rough game, but when they end up in the box the coach gets really mad at them. All together in Hockey there are a little over 100 rules.
             NHL stands for the National Hockey League. There are five players defending and scoring goals and one goal tender. All together there is a total of twelve men on the ice (Rules Game,1). There is one captain on each team and he is usually the best player. There are also two other assistant captains that are the other two best players. If the captain cant play the one of the assistants will take the captains place and a regular player will take the assistants place. To know whom the captain is he will wear a C on his jersey and the assistants will wear an A. Players have their last name on his jersey along with a number, and that's how they identify each player. To identify all the different each team they will have representing lo...