Delphi

The communities include Chrysso which in ancient times was Crissa. While the league has always had a strong Canadian majority, the percentage of Canadian players has gone down slowly in the past 20 years since the arrival of European players. Delphi also has a school, a lyceum and a square (plateia). The league also voluntarily stops its season so that its players can play in the Winter Olympics to have the players represent their own country. The two main streets are each one-way and narrow. Since the 1990s, the league has tried to promote itself throughout Europe with ads, media, and magazines. It is passed by a major highway linking Amfissa along with Itea and Arachova. NHL is very proud of its players coming from all around the world.

The modern Delphi or Delfi or Delfoi is situated west of the archaeological site. After Gretzky's induction, the NHL declared that he would be the last one to have the waiting period omitted. Three of the Doric colums have been restored, making it the most popular site at Delphi for tourists to take photographs. In 1999 Wayne Gretzky became the last player to have the three years waived. The Tholos is located approximately a half-mile (800 m) from the main ruins at Delphi. However, only 10 individual have been honoured in this manner. It consisted of 20 Doric columns arranged with an exterior diamater of 14.76 meters, with 10 Corinthian columns in the interior. In the past, if a player was deemed significant enough, the pending period would be waived.

The Tholos at the sanctuary of Athena Pronaia is a circular building that was constructed between 380 and 360 B.C. Three years after retirement, players are eligible to be voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Another impressive treasury that exists on the site was dedicated by the city of Siphnos, who had ammassed great wealth from their silver and gold mines and so they dedicated the Siphnian Treasury. The National Hockey League presents numerous trophies per year; some are given to teams, and other are given to players. The Athenians had previously been given the advice by the oracle to put their faith in their "wooden walls" – taking this advice to mean their navy, they won a famous battle at Salamis. If the penalized team is scored on during a minor penalty, the penalty immediately ends. The most impressive is the now-restored Treasury of Athens, built to commemorate the Athenians' victory at the Battle of Marathon. A team is far more likely to score on a power play than during normal play.

These were built by the various states – those overseas as well as those on the mainland – to commemorate victories and to thank the oracle for advice important to those victories. This is called a power play for the attackers and a penalty kill for the defenders. From the entrance of the site, continuing up the slope almost to the temple itself, is a large number of votive statues, and numerous treasuries. Normally, hockey teams have five skaters (excluding the goaltender), so if one penalty is called, play becomes five-on-four. Other archaeologists believe that the oracle also inhaled fumes of burning bay leaves. In most cases, the penalized team cannot replace that player and is thus shorthanded for the duration of the penalty. here for a popular science coverage). During a penalty, the player who committed the infraction is sent to the penalty box.

707; see e.g. In the NHL, the Linesman may call major intent-to-injure penalties that the referee may have missed. (de Boer et al., Geology 29 (2001) pp. A linesman may call only obvious technical infractions such as too many men on the ice. However, recent geological research indicates that the site of the oracle shows young geological faults, and it seems plausible that these emitted in ancient times light hydrocarbon gases, possibly ethylene, from bituminous limestone which do have an intoxicating effect. A referee makes all penalty calls. ¹ After investigating the site, archeologists were convinced that these vapours are only a myth, as no evidence for them could be found, and — so the then standard opinion in geology — gaseous emissions from rock only occur in conjunction with volcanic activity. A penalty is a punishment for inappropriate behaviour.

The temple to Apollo at Delphi was built by Trophonius and Agamedes. Under the rules following the 2004-2005 lockout, if a team ices the puck under five-on-five conditions, they are not allowed to make a line change for the following faceoff. In the 3rd century A.D., the oracle (perhaps bribed) declared that the god would no longer speak there. If the goalie on the side of the ice where the puck is being sent touches the puck, the icing is waved off. Another famous motto of Delphi is Meden Agan (Μηδέν Άγαν): "nothing in excess". A short handed team is not penalized for clearing the puck out of its zone during a powerplay. This claim is related to one of the most famous mottos of Delphi, which Socrates said he learned there, Gnothi Seauton (Γνώθι Σεαυτόν): "know thyself". Play is resumed with a faceoff in the defending zone of the team that committed the infraction.

The oracle is also said to have proclaimed Socrates the wisest man in Greece, to which Socrates said that if so, this was because he alone was aware of his own ignorance. When icing occurs, a linesman stops play. Croesus of Lydia consulted Delphi before attacking Persia, and according to Herodotus received the answer "if you do, you will destroy a great empire." Croesus found the response favorable and attacked, and was utterly overthrown (resulting, of course, in the destruction of his own empire). Icing occurs when a player shoots the puck across both the red line and the opposing team's goal line without the puck going into the net. She also was respected by the semi-Hellenic countries around the Greek world, such as Lydia, Caria, and even Egypt. The NHL in 2006 removed the offside pass or two-line pass which was a pass from inside a team's defending zone that crosses the red line. This oracle exerted considerable influence across the country, and was consulted before all major undertakings: wars, the founding of colonies, and so forth. When an offside violation occurs, the linesman blows play dead, and a faceoff is conducted in the neutral zone.

Still others claimed the Sibyl received her powers from Gaia originally, who passed the oracle to Themis, who passed it to Phoebe. In ice hockey, play is said to be offside if a player on the attacking team enters the attacking zone before the puck. Others said she was sister or daughter to Apollo. If the game is still tied after the three shootout rounds, the shootout continues, but becomes sudden death. Pausanias claimed that the Sibyl was "born between man and goddess, daughter of sea monsters and an immortal nymph". The team with the most goals during this shootout wins the game. The Sibyl sat on the Sibylline Rock, breathing in vapors from the ground¹ and gaining her often puzzling predictions from that. Three players for each team in turn perform a penalty shot.

Later, "Sibyl" became a title given to whichever priestess manned the oracle at the time. If the game is still tied at the end of overtime, the game enters a shootout. She sang her predictions, which she received from Gaia. If the game is tied at the end of regulation time, a 5 minute, 4-on-4 sudden death overtime period is played, where the first team that scores a goal wins the game. The first oracle at Delphi was commonly known as Sibyl or Pythia, though her name was Herophile. The team that has the most goals at the end of 60 minutes wins the game. The oracle at that time predicted the future based on the lapping water and leaves rustling in the trees. A goal is scored when the puck passes the goal line and enters the net.

The shrine dedicated to Apollo was probably originally dedicated to Gaia and then Poseidon. It is used to judge goals and icing calls. Apollo killed Python but had to be punished for it, since Python was a child of Gaia. Near each end of the rink, there is a thin red goal line spanning the width of the ice. This was the spring which emitted vapors that caused the Oracle at Delphi to give her prophesies. They divide the ice into zones. When young, Apollo killed the chthonic serpent Python, which lived beside the Castalian Spring, according to some because Python had attempted to rape Leto while she was pregnant with Apollo and Artemis. There are two blue lines that divide the rink roughly into thirds.

Even in Roman times hundreds of votive statues remained, described by Pliny the Younger and seen by Pausanias. The red line is used to judge icing violations. Delphi was the site of a major temple to Phoebus Apollo, as well as the Pythian Games and a famous oracle. The red line divides the ice in half lengthwise. In commemoration of this legend, the winners at the Pythian Games received a laurel wreath picked in Tempe. The hockey rink is an ice rink which is rectangular with rounded corners and surrounded by a wall . Another legend held that Apollo walked to Delphi from the north and stopped at Tempe, a city in Thessaly to pick laurel, a plant sacred to him. Each team may also take one 30 second time-out which may only be taken during a normal stoppage of play.

The epithet is connected with dolphins (the "womb-fish") in the Homeric Hymn to Apollo Εις Απόλλωνα Πύθιον, 400), telling how Apollo first came to Delphi in the shape of a dolphin, carrying Cretan priests on his back. Between stoppages of play, teams have 25 seconds before substituting their players except for referee stoppages for TV commercials. either "the one of Delphi", or "the one of the womb". Between each period there is a 15 minute intermission. Apollo is connected with the site by his epithet Δελφίνιος Delphinios, "the Delphinian", i.e. Each game is 60 minutes composed of three 20 minute periods. The name Delphoi is connected with δελφός delphus "womb" and may indicate archaic veneration of an Earth Goddess at the site. While the National Hockey League follows the general rules of Ice hockey, it differs slightly from those used in international games organized by the International Ice Hockey Federation such as the Olympics.

Southwest of Delphi, about 15 km away, is the harbor-city of Kirrha on the Corinthian Gulf. The overtime is sudden death with the game ending when either team scores a goal. This semicircular spur is known as Phaedriades; it overlooks the Pleistos Valley. Overtimes are also full periods of twenty minutes (of five-on-five hockey), rather than the five minutes (of four-on-four hockey, followed by a shootout) in the regular season. Parnassus. If the score is tied at the end of an overtime period, additional overtime periods are played until a winner is determined. Delphi is located in a plateau on the side of Mt. During playoff games if the score is tied at the end of the third period an overtime period is played.

. Four of the seven games are played at this team's home venue - the first and second, and, where necessary, the fifth and seventh, with the other games played at the lower-ranked team's home venue. 61, 84). In each round the higher-ranked team is said to be the team with the home-ice advantage. After the battle of Plataea, the Greek cities extinguished their fires and brought new fire from the hearth of Greece, at Delphi; in the foundation stories of several Greek colonies, the founding colonists were first dedicated at Delphi (Burkert, 1985, pp. In the third round, the conference finals, the two remaining teams in each conference play each other, with the conference champions proceeding to the Stanley Cup Finals. In the inner εστία (hestia), or hearth, of the Temple of Delphic Apollo (Απόλλων Δελφίνιος - Apollon Delphinios), an άσβεστος φλόγα (eternal flame) burned. In the second round, or conference semifinals, the NHL re-seeds (unlike the NBA) the teams, with the top remaining conference seed playing against the lowest remaining seed, and the other two remaining conference teams pairing off.

Delphi was revered throughout the Greek world as the site of the ομφαλός (omphalos) stone, the centre of the universe. The first round of the playoffs, or conference quarterfinals, consists of the first seed playing the eighth seed, the second playing the seventh, third playing the sixth, and the fourth playing the fifth. In ancient times it was the site of the Delphic Sibyl, dedicated to the god Apollo. The Stanley Cup Playoffs is an elimination tournament, where two teams battle to win a best-of-seven series in order to advance to the next round. Delphi (Greek Δελφοί - Delphoi; see also List of traditional Greek place names) is an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece. The division winners are seeded one through three, and the next five teams with the best records in the conference are seeded four through eight. Burkert, Walter, Greek Religion 1985. At the end of the regular season, the three division champions and the five other teams in each conference with the highest number of points, 8 teams in each conference, qualify for the Stanley Cup playoffs.

The New York Times, March 19, 2002: "Fumes and Visions Were Not a Myth for Oracle at Delphi". At the end of the regular season, the team that finishes with the most points in each division is crowned the division champion. Geology of Delphi. Points are awarded for each game as follows:. John Roach, "Delphic Oracle's Lips May Have Been Loosened by Gas Vapors" in National Geographic news, August 2001. The two divisions from the opposite conference which each team plays against will be rotated every year, much like interleague play in baseball. Hale, et al., "Questioning the Delphic Oracle: When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought", in Scientific American August 2003. Teams play 32 games within their division (8 games against four other teams), 40 games against non-divisional, conference opponents (4 games against 10 other teams) and 10 interconference games, 1 game against each team in two of the three divisions in the opposite conference.

John R. Each team in the NHL plays 82 regular season games, 41 games at home and 41 on the road. "The Delphic oracle". For a list of previous teams see List of defunct NHL teams. Eloise Hart, "The Delphic oracle". Over the years many different organizations have existed. Livius Picture Archive: Delphi. The National Hockey League currently has 30 teams divided into two conferences, and 6 divisions, an organization that started in the year 2000.

Osborne , "A Short detour to Delphi and the Sibyls". The NHL, despite negative press generated during the lockout, has success attracting fans to the initial games of the season and extends fan bases into non-traditional markets in the US such as Nashville, Atlanta, and the Carolinas. C. Of those 15 games, 11 were in front of sell out crowds. Delphi (in Greek). On October 5, 2005, the first post-lockout NHL season got under way with 15 games. Delphi guide. A new collective bargaining agreement was ratified in July 2005 with a term of six years with an option of extending the collective bargaining agreement for an additional year at the end of the term, allowing the NHL to resume as of the 2005-06 season.

The Oracle of Delphi and Ancient Oracles, annotated guide edited by Tim Spalding. With no new agreement in hand when the existing contract expired on September 15, 2004, league commissioner Gary Bettman announced a lockout of the players union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office, causing the NHL to lose an entire season. Hellenic Ministry of Culture: Delphi. The league vowed to install what it dubbed "cost certainty" for its teams, but the National Hockey League Players Association countered that the move was little more than a euphemism for a salary cap, which the union initially said it would not accept. Homepage of the modern municipality (in English or Greek). Negotiations to replace the contract that expired in 2004 turned into one of the most contentious collective bargaining sessions in the history of professional sports. The resulting collective bargaining agreement was set for renegotiation in 1998 and extended to September 15, 2004.

A lockout at the start of the 1994-95 forced the league to reduce the schedule from 84 games to just 48, with the teams playing only intra-conference games during the reduced season. The first was a strike by the National Hockey League Players Association in April 1992 which lasted for 10 days, but the strike was settled quickly and all affected games were rescheduled. There have been three work stoppages in NHL history, all happening between 1992 and 2005. Approaching the new millennium, the NHL added another four teams; the Nashville Predators (1998), the Atlanta Thrashers (1999), the Minnesota Wild and the Columbus Blue Jackets (both added in 2000) bringing the total to 30 teams.

In 1993, the NHL added an additional two teams, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks and the Florida Panthers. The San Jose Sharks debuted in 1991, a season later the Ottawa Senators would join the NHL along with the Tampa Bay Lightning. In the early 90's the NHL expanded further with five new franchises. As of 2005, the Oilers are the last remaining original WHA franchise still playing in the city where they began in the NHL.

Four of the remaining six WHA teams merged with the NHL: The Hartford Whalers, Québec Nordiques, Edmonton Oilers, and Winnipeg Jets. The two leagues fought for the services of hockey players and fans until the WHA folded in 1979. The dilution of the talent pool, however, caused the overall quality of play to suffer. In response to that, the NHL decided to rush its own expansion plans by adding the New York Islanders and Atlanta Flames that year, along with the Kansas City Scouts and Washington Capitals two years later.

Though it never challenged for the Stanley Cup, its status as a viable NHL rival was unquestionable. In 1972, the World Hockey Association (WHA) was formed. Three years later, the NHL added the Vancouver Canucks and Buffalo Sabres as franchises. Louis Blues, Minnesota North Stars, Los Angeles Kings, Oakland Seals, and Pittsburgh Penguins.

They were the Philadelphia Flyers, St. Six new teams were added to the NHL roster, and placed in their own newly-created division. The rise of the Western Hockey League, which many pundits thought planned to transform into a major league and challenge for the Stanley Cup, spurred the NHL in 1967 to undertake its first expansion since the 1920s. With these developments and the onset of World War II, the NHL was reduced to six teams during its 25th anniversary year of (1942) – six teams still known today, if somewhat inaccurately, as the Original Six: The Canadiens, Maple Leafs, Red Wings, Bruins, Rangers, and Blackhawks.

However, the Great Depression took a toll on the league; teams such as the Pirates, Americans and Ottawa Senators folded. By the end of the 1930-31 season, the NHL featured a total of 10 teams. Canadian additions included the Montreal Maroons and Hamilton Tigers. The league had also expanded into the United States, with the Boston Bruins in 1924, the New York Americans and the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1925 and the New York Rangers, Detroit Cougars (later to become the Red Wings), and Chicago Blackhawks in 1926.

By 1926, having increased player salaries to a level that couldn't be matched by other Canadian leagues, the NHL was alone in Stanley Cup competition. (The 1918-19 competition was cancelled because of the Spanish Flu epidemic that had hit Seattle). Though the league struggled to stay in business during its first decade, NHL teams were quite successful on the ice, winning the Stanley Cup seven out of its first nine years. With the Bulldogs and Wanderers out, the NHL operated with just three teams for the remainder of its opening year, and through the second season.

The Wanderers, already a shadow of its former self, folded in the wake of the fire, ending one of the most storied franchises in the early years of Canadian professional hockey. On January 2, 1918, the Westmount Arena in Montreal, home to the Wanderers and Canadiens, was destroyed in a fire. The NHL endured a rocky inaugural season in 1917-18, starting with the temporary shuttering of the Bulldogs. Arguments and discussions ensued which eventually led to the formation of the National Hockey League at on November 26, 1917, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs and newly-renamed Toronto Arenas as founding members.

Livingstone, unable to attend the meeting because of illness, was shocked to learn that owners had chosen to effectively eject him and the Blueshirts from the NHA. The owners met in Montreal's Windsor Hotel to consider the league's future on February 11, 1917. Livingstone and the owners of the other teams. The National Hockey League was founded in 1917 in Montreal after a series of disputes within the (Canadian) National Hockey Association (NHA) between the Toronto Blueshirts' owner Edward J.

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The Lester Patrick Trophy has been presented by the National Hockey League since 1966 to honour a recipient's contribution to hockey in the United States. Jennings Trophy (1982 - present) -- goalkeeper(s) for the team with the fewest goals against them. William M. Vezina Trophy (1927 - present) -- voted to be the most outstanding goaltender.

Roger Crozier Saving Grace Award (2000 - present) -- best save percentage by a goalkeeper. NHL Plus/Minus Award (1968 - present) -- highest plus/minus statistic. Maurice 'Rocket' Richard Trophy (1999 - present) -- to the goal-scoring leader during the regular season. Pearson Award (1971 - present) -- most outstanding player as selected by peers.

Lester B. Lady Byng Memorial Trophy (1925 - present) -- player combining ability and sportsmanship. King Clancy Memorial Trophy (1988 - present) -- leadership and humanitarian contribution. James Norris Memorial Trophy (1954 - present)-- most outstanding defenceman.

Jack Adams Award (1974 - present) -- coach of the year. Hart Memorial Trophy (1924 - present) -- most valuable player during the regular season. Selke Trophy (1978 - present) -- top defensive forward. Frank J.

Conn Smythe Trophy (1965 - present) -- most valuable player during the playoffs. Calder Memorial Trophy (1933 - present) -- rookie of the year. Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy (1968 - present) -- perseverance and sportsmanship. Art Ross Memorial Trophy (1948 - present) -- regular season league scoring champion.

The O'Brien Trophy was awarded in the NHL before it was retired following the 1949-50 NHL season. Presidents' Trophy (1986 - present) - best regular season by a team. Prince of Wales Trophy -- Eastern conference playoff champion. Campbell Bowl -- Western conference playoff champion.

Clarence S. Stanley Cup -- overall playoff champion. Zero points for a loss in regulation time. One point for losing in overtime or a shootout.

Two points are awarded for a win.