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Jayna Hefford has been named a member of the Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2018!

Hefford is a five time Olympic medalist (four gold, one silver) and scored the gold medal winning goal in 2002. She also has seven gold and five silver World Championship medals. She was the first CWHL player to reach 100 points and lead scoring in the league until the 2017-18 season. She will be the sixth woman inducted into the HHoF.

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#NHLstats

100 points this season

Vegas Golden Knights: 1st expansion team with 100-point season

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#Colorado avalanche#Mikko Rantanen#we pretty much just keep the cameras on him#sometimes Landy too

so it’s a Scandinavian thing?

This is Mikko completely explained in five seconds.

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doesn’t help that the most readable part of the poster top left says “saw”

guess we can add ‘electricity’ to the list of kinks timothy jimothy is sharing with the world

also this is the bleakest, most horrible photo i’ve ever seen. sports sex dungeon? cursed.

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hockey basics - points

Hockey - as all other team sports, is a competition and people love to figure out who is best. Which means points get assigned to figure this out.

Since it’s a team sport, the most important information is the team standing. It’s what you look up to figure out if a team overall is doing well, if they will make the playoffs (or, depending on league, have to go to play downs/ups). But while there’s no “i” in team, they still are made up of individuals, so every player gets points, too.

points for teams:

a win (W) nets your team 2 points, no matter if the win was achieved during regular play time, in overtime (OT, through a golden goal ending the game), or by scoring more goals in a shootout

managing to draw in regulation (after 60 minutes) means your team has 1 point no matter if they win or lose, one additional for the winning team (again, 2 points in total for a win)

games never end in a draw, your team either wins or loses. If there’s no decision during regulation, the game goes into overtime, if there’s still no decision after that the game goes to penalties

points for players:

each player is awarded points when they score a goal or assist on a goal

scoring a goal means they are the last player to touch the puck when a goal is scored

assisting means they are one of the last two players to touch the puck before the player who scored the goal did so

if a player of the opposing team touches the puck before the player who scores the goal does so, the goal is “unassisted” and only a point for the scorer is awarded

there are now own goals; so pucks that deflect of a defense player or goalie are awarded to the last player of the opposing team (that’s how many goalies get assists)

there are more statistics (of course) but those are the most important ones.

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hockey basics - time and players

Thanks to this post, you know where the teams play. Let’s get to the how.

Time:

a game consists of 3 periods (thirds) each 20 minutes actual game time

the two intermissions or breaks in between (usually) last 15 minutes

there will be multiple interruption in each period, prolonging the time needed for a game (pro hockey games mean you spend 2 hours or more at the stadium watching people doing something on the ice)

games get interrupted by the referees for different reasons:

goals; if a goal is scored, the game is interrupted and starts at the faceoff spot in the middle of the field (in the middle of the neutral zone)

save; if the goaltender (goalie) catches the puck or the puck is buried under the goalie (or just nobody knows where the puck is and the ref assumes it’s somewhere under/on the goalie; if you are curious what I mean by that, watch this youtube video)

infractions (breaking the rules) - usually this leads to a penalty

puck out of play - when the puck leaves the playing field by going over the boards or if it’s stuck between player and board and the ref decides it’s been too long since the puck has been played

players:

there are two teams (duh)

for each game, there is a maximum of 22 players on each team

each team has (at maximum) 6 players on the ice at any time

usually there is 1 goalie playing and one line of field players, each line consisting of 2 defense players and 3 offensive players

there is no limit on how often a coach can switch players during a game

usually they switch out a whole line (line change)

(line) changes happen during interruptions (scored goals, fouls, icing, ...) as well as during regular game play

sometimes a coach decides to pull the goalie and replace them with a sixth field player - this is mostly done when the team trails behind at the end of the last period

sometimes there are fewer players on the ice because of penalties - meaning a player is penalized for a foul and taken off the ice without being replaced; more see the post about penalties which I’ll link to as soon as it exists

A short run down about the different player positions:

Obviously we have the goalies (and there will be another post just about goalies; you’ll learn about my favoritism soon enough). Their job is the easiest to describe and arguably the hardest to do: they stop the opposing team from scoring by catching or blocking pucks shot at the net

Then we have two defensive players. They are positioned in front of the goalie to the right and left side; they try to take the puck before opposing players can shoot at the goal

Additionally there are three offensive players: center, left and right wing. The center sets up the game play while the wingers try to score (which doesn’t mean that they are the only players to ever score, there are even goalies who scored in regular games, as you can see in this youtube video)

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Hockey basics - THE basics

The absolute basics - as if I was explaining hockey to an alien who just knows most humans have two extremities to stand on and two to swing with.

Ice hockey is played either in a stadium or an outside rink on ice.

There are two basic layouts for these rinks, NHL (National Hockey League - which means North America) and IIHF (International Ice Hockey Federation - which means everywhere else). The former is what NHL teams play on, the latter what standard rinks in Germany (for example; also the rest of the world) look like. There are also in-between forms and nonstandard ones.

First a general text version for screen readers before I have the NHL and IIHF versions as pictures; there’ll be a text portion afterwards explaining the commonalities and differences as well.

We have a rectangular field surrounded by boards on all sides; the corners are rounded.

Starting on the left and going lengthwise, we have:

the boards behind the net/goal which are the beginning of the defensive zone because this is where your team defends their goal, this is one end zone

the (red) goal line which goes through the entrance of the goal

the blue line which marks the end of the defensive zone in which your teams goal is sitting and at the same time the beginning of the neutral zone

a (red) middle line that is just for orientation

the next blue line which marks the end of the neutral zone and the beginning of the offensive zone, the other end zone

again the red goal line with the opposing team’s goal/net sitting on it; here your team is going on the attack, trying to score goals

the boards behind the goal/net

And here are the two main field types as diagrams 

- the NHL version (taken from the Wikipedia commons):

Attribution: By Completefailure based on raster file created by User: Radomil - vector version of File: NHLHockeyRink.gif, redrawn according to NHL Rule Book, CC BY-SA 3.0

- and the IIHF version (also from the Wikipedia commons):

Attribution: By Hedavid (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html), CC-BY-SA-3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

Here’s what they all have in common:

the field is longer than it is wide, the direction of play is lengthwise

there’s a middle line (red) that divides the rink in half, this line is mostly irrelevant and for orientation

there are two other red lines at the end of the field; you can still play behind them, but they have relevance for goals and icing (both will be explained later; I’ll add the relevant links as soon as the posts are up)

there are two blue lines that divide the field into three zones (two end zones (where the goals are: defensive zone, which means in front of your own goal and the offensive zone which is the opposing team’s defensive zone, and the neutral zone which is between the end zones) those two blue lines are pretty important for a lot of rules

there’s a red line around an area in front of the goals filled in with blue, it’s called the crease and also important for some rules

faceoff spots: 9 total - 2 per end zone, 5 in the neutral zone (a faceoff is the start of a play after each interruption; more later with a link here)

boards and glass: boards are the a little above waist high boundaries of the field; most of the time they are extended in height by (plexi)glass or netting to keep flying pucks from hitting spectators - behind the goals there will oftentimes be additional netting high up for the same purpose

the differences as a quick rundown:

the three zones are either thirds (equal size; IIHF) or the neutral zone is smaller than the end zones (NHL)

the shape of the crease - half circle in IIHF rinks, in the NHL the half circle is reduced, it ends 1 feet outside of where the goal posts are

the goaltender trapezoid (officially called: goaltender trap zone); the area behind the net the goaltender is allowed to play the puck in, only NHL rinks have it

NHL rinks are a bit shorter

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Ice Hockey - the basics

As you can tell from the description, I like ice hockey. I’m also German. And as most might assume, Germany is less of a hockey nation, we’re not Canada after all. Kids here grow up playing soccer or have friends who play soccer. So many of my friends have no idea about ice hockey (for short called hockey from now on) other than “you need a black disc and sticks and skates”.

So here on this blog, I’ll explain the basic rules of hockey (and probably dive into more details and into hockey in connection with my photography).

These posts will be tagged with hockey basics - even if I go into details; as long as there’s new rules to explain, hockey basics is the tag.

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Finn. I really miss him! He's my sister's cat (kinda), living at our parent's place. Cuddly and a lot like Garfield. Also makes a great model and is patient (lazy) enough to be perfect for testing new angels and positions.

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This is Pete. Same situation as Finn. He's either his nephew or uncle, I can never remember which. I miss him just as much (if not a tiny bit more) but he's less ideal for trying things despiet being just as patient (lazy); he just enjoys being an ass more so he'll constantly turn his head or close his eyes.

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Dragonfly on campus. #bns_earth #nature #naturephotography #bns_nature #bns_insects #insects

I cought this beauty of a dragonfly on my way to my lab. It was just hovering around the little fallen branch, resting on it from time to time. I got close enough to watch it breath, which was fascinating; insects breath so different from mamals. (They have openings along their bodies called spiracles that connect their tracheae to the surrounding air - it's also the reason they have a finite size; our atmosphere doesn't have enough oxygen in it to support them getting bigger).

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tags

Here’s a list of the tags I’ll be using so you can avoid triggers or only want to see certain types of posts like pictures or text posts.

language: 

#english 

#deutsch

post type:

text, quotes, and chats: #text

pictures: #picture #Bild

audio: #audio

video: #video

links: #link

post subjects:

text posts might be tagged with the style (#introduction, #report, #explanation, #general, ...)

posts about my studies will be tagged #learning #social media #online communication #FJS #Freie Journalistenschule #journalism #Journalismus

hockey posts will be tagged (surprise): #hockey #icehockey #Eishockey #sports #Sport

There will be additional tags that detail what the specific post contains or is about. I also aim to add alternative texts to every post; but I am sure not everything I’ll do will work, so let me know if I should add certain tags or alter the way I provide descriptions and text.

In regards to trigger warnings, since blacklist and similar addons filter text as well, I will add those to the text itself and not in the tags as I learned that some programs only use the first few tags for filtering. If you have specific triggers or squicks that I should add, let me know, for now I will go with the obvious ones that cover what I expect to possibly post:

F O O D and E S S E N

B L O O D and B L U T

the common name of animals (for example S P I D E R and S P I N N E or more generalized ones like I N S E C T and I N S E K T)

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Introduction

Hi everyone.

My name is Dan, I take pictures of nature and ice hockey that I post on Instagram. I also just started a course on social media and online communication and will use this blog to experiment with what I learned and to figure out, what I want to do with the new knowledge. I will mainly post in English, especially on the picture posts. Since my studies are in German I will use that on many posts related to that topic. I’ll tag the language (#english or #deutsch) so feel free to block those out if you aren’t interested in posts in a language you aren’t proficient in. Or shoot me a message if you are interested in me translating a specific post of mine.

For your convenience, here’s a post with the tags I use in case you are sensitive about anything and want to avoid seeing or reading about certain things.