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All around the world, hockey is treasured as a sport, ranging from places such as Canada, Russia, the United States, Norway, Sweden, and Scandinavia, despite the physically demanding toll it places on its players. The game consists of 22 players that are rotated in at 6 players at a time. Twenty minute periods that number in three comprise the game, while there are additional twenty minute overtime periods, until a goal is scored. Ending game periods, when they are tied, are broken this way, which is important because late ties are not permitted in the NHL.
It is now a highly regulated sport, and the referee no longer sits in the audience rather than on the field. The referee today is one that actually skates next to the players on the ice, and comes in sets of two, both of whom consult each other and the league officials on the sidelines. Behavior of the league between the past and today are two different animals, and the regulations are more organized, even adding a penalty box. Any player who breaks any of the league’s highly regulated rules faces the penalty box, which is a way of sending a player out of play for the remaining period or game, depending on the severity of the act.
These are actually points that are added to the rival team’s score. The early days of hockey featured 30 whole players on a team, but today’s sport has far fewer - the players that do play the game are, however, showing more and more aggression on the ice between each other. Not only do the rival team members fight each other, but so do fellow players, and the referee can wind up in the midst of a fight as well. The poor referee attempts to stop the bloody fist fights - or assaults with a weapon, in the event that a stick or helmet is used. Some hockey players fight so hard they actually break their protective glass at rink side, such is the intensity of the brawling.
The consistent squabbling on the ice can lead to extensive injuries for hockey players, namely cuts and bruises. The fights can result from calls the players feel are unfair and fall to the other team or even a rival player taunting them in some way which can cause them to be angry and combative. To prevent the fights from escalating too badly, players are sent to the locker rooms to calm down. Understandably, hockey demands a high level of energy that also makes it quite prone to angry outbursts. Though it can in fact be very difficult to not get angry, when it comes to referee fighting, that’s an entirely different matter.
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