Cinderella

Almost every year at least one, but often several such films are produced and released, resulting in Cinderella becoming a work of literature with one of the largest numbers of film adaptations ascribed to it, perhaps rivaled only by the sheer number of films that have been adapted from or based on Bram Stoker's novel Dracula. 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. Over the decades since the invention of motion pictures, literally hundreds of films have been made that are either direct adaptations or have plots loosely based on the story of Cinderella. 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. Her traditional line "Cinderella, you shall go to the ball!" has passed into common usage from gay culture where the meme of the "glamorous transformation" is a source of fascination and humor. Since the 1990s, the league has tried to promote itself throughout Europe with ads, media, and magazines. The fairy Godmother must magically create a coach (from a pumpkin), footmen (from mice) and a beautiful dress for Cinderella in order for her to go to the ball. NHL is very proud of its players coming from all around the world.

There are also added characters such as Buttons (Baron Hardup's servant, and Cinderella's friend) and Dandini (the Prince's right-hand man, the character and even his name coming from Rossini's opera). After Gretzky's induction, the NHL declared that he would be the last one to have the waiting period omitted. The stepmother's own daughters are the Ugly sisters who are jealous of Cinderella and cruel to her. In 1999 Wayne Gretzky became the last player to have the three years waived. In the pantomime form Cinderella's father (Baron Hardup) is under the thumb of the stepmother. However, only 10 individual have been honoured in this manner. The subject of Cinderella is very common for British and Australian pantomimes. In the past, if a player was deemed significant enough, the pending period would be waived.

The story of "Cinderella" has formed the basis of many works:. Three years after retirement, players are eligible to be voted into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Detractors of such princess brides argue that the wedding is not solely about the bride; nevertheless, many wedding gown retailers appeal, directly or indirectly, to the Cinderella ideal. The National Hockey League presents numerous trophies per year; some are given to teams, and other are given to players. A bride with the Cinderella mindset believes that the dress and the occasion exist in order that she may be transformed for the day into a beautiful princess. If the penalized team is scored on during a minor penalty, the penalty immediately ends. Cinderella, along with the more general "princess," are shorthand for a particular approach to weddings and Western wedding attire, especially the white dress. A team is far more likely to score on a power play than during normal play.

For example, a girl from a wealthy household who has been ordered to wash the dishes as a fulfilment of her once a month chores would be deemed a Cinderella; a fallen princess who has finally met with tough reality. This is called a power play for the attackers and a penalty kill for the defenders. Others are called Cinderella if they tend to quietly complain. Normally, hockey teams have five skaters (excluding the goaltender), so if one penalty is called, play becomes five-on-four. Some girls are described as a Cinderella if they are meek and immediately submissive to stern orders. In most cases, the penalized team cannot replace that player and is thus shorthanded for the duration of the penalty. The term Cinderella has evolved from its storybook beginnings to become the name for a variety of female personalities. During a penalty, the player who committed the infraction is sent to the penalty box.

Earlier, less self-consciously instructive Cinderellas have more revealing mythic content. In the NHL, the Linesman may call major intent-to-injure penalties that the referee may have missed. The anachronism of a supposed skin-color sensitivity in Egypt itself is revealing. A linesman may call only obvious technical infractions such as too many men on the ice. As a document, this reveals some contemporary American approaches to historicism, cultural multiplicity, racism, and educating for a spirit of tolerance. A referee makes all penalty calls. Based partly on fact (a slave named Rhodopis did marry Pharaoh Amasis) and partly on folk legends, this story is remarkable for its details of life in ancient Egypt and for the Egyptian-style illustrations". A penalty is a punishment for inappropriate behaviour.

He searches for, and finds, the girl. 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. Eventually, one of her rosy-gold slippers is carried to the pharaoh's court. If the goalie on the side of the ice where the puck is being sent touches the puck, the icing is waved off. An example of the "uses of Cinderella" is presented by Shirley Climo, The Egyptian Cinderella (1989), aimed at young children: "Rhodopis, a Greek slave girl living in Egypt, is teased by the servants about her coloring. A short handed team is not penalized for clearing the puck out of its zone during a powerplay. Refactoring continues. Play is resumed with a faceoff in the defending zone of the team that committed the infraction.

Thus serious uses come from what appears on the surface to be a trivial wish-fulfilment narrative. When icing occurs, a linesman stops play. Mythographers return to Cinderella for hints of the social ethos embodied in it, and the familiar story proves to be a useful case example for young students beginning to understand how myth works. 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. Each social group, in re-telling "Cinderella," has emphasized or suppressed individual elements and has given them interpretations that are especially relevant within each society. 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. Instead, cultural elements ("memes" to some writers) may be disentangled from the Cinderella tale. When an offside violation occurs, the linesman blows play dead, and a faceoff is conducted in the neutral zone.

In more recent times, as Freud's concepts have found more support as myth and poetry than as neurological science, it has seemed to mythographers less useful to explain one myth in terms of another myth. In ice hockey, play is said to be offside if a player on the attacking team enters the attacking zone before the puck. The idea that "Cinderella" embodies myth elements was explored in The Uses of Enchantment (1989) by Bruno Bettelheim, who made many connections to the principles of Freudian psychology. If the game is still tied after the three shootout rounds, the shootout continues, but becomes sudden death. Humorous retellings of the story sometimes use the twist of having the shoes turn out to also fit somebody completely unsuitable, such as an amorous old crone. The team with the most goals during this shootout wins the game. The translation of the story into cultures with different standards of beauty has left the significance of Cinderella's shoe size unclear, and resulted in the implausibility of Cinderella's feet being of a unique size for no particular reason. Three players for each team in turn perform a penalty shot.

Small feet were an important aspect of beauty in Chinese culture, leading to practices such as foot binding. If the game is still tied at the end of overtime, the game enters a shootout. The original Chinese version of the story emphasized that Cinderella (or Yè Xiàn [葉羨] as she was called; known in the West as Yeh-Shen) had the smallest feet in the land. 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. Interpreters unaware of the value attached to glass in 17th century France and perhaps troubled by sartorial impracticalities, have suggested that Perrault's "glass slipper" (pantoufle de verre) had been a "fur slipper" (pantoufle de vair) in some unidentified earlier version of the tale, and that Perrault or one of his sources confused the words; however, most scholars believe the glass slipper was a deliberate piece of poetic invention on Perrault's part. The team that has the most goals at the end of 60 minutes wins the game. The glass slipper is unique to Perrault's version; in other versions of the tale it may be made of other materials (in the version recorded by the Brothers Grimm, German: Aschenbroedel and Aschenputtel, for instance, it is gold) and in still other tellings, it is not a slipper but a ring or a bracelet that gives the prince the key to Cinderella's identity. A goal is scored when the puck passes the goal line and enters the net.

The midnight curfew is also absent in many versions; Cinderella leaves the ball to get home before her stepmother and stepsisters, or she is simply tired. It is used to judge goals and icing calls. Thus her mother (sometimes represented as a bird) is the supernatural force who assists the girl to find her prince. Near each end of the rink, there is a thin red goal line spanning the width of the ice. It is also worth noting that in some versions of the story there is no fairy godmother; rather Cinderella's dress and shoes come from a tree that grows over her mother's grave. They divide the ice into zones. The evil stepsisters are sometimes punished for their deception by having their eyes pecked out by crows, or in other cases forgiven. There are two blue lines that divide the rink roughly into thirds.

In all variants, Cinderella arrives and proves her identity by fitting into the slipper (in some cases she has kept the other, as in the Disney retelling). The red line is used to judge icing violations. The second stepsister fits into the slipper by cutting off her heel, but the same eagle gives her away. The red line divides the ice in half lengthwise. In the German telling of the story, the first stepsister fits into the slipper by cutting off a toe, but a magical eagle tells the prince to notice the blood dripping from the slipper, and he returns the false bride to her mother. The hockey rink is an ice rink which is rectangular with rounded corners and surrounded by a wall . Cinderella's stepmother and stepsisters (in some versions just the stepsisters) conspire to win the prince's hand for one of them. Each team may also take one 30 second time-out which may only be taken during a normal stoppage of play.

He declares that he will marry only the girl whose petite foot fits into the slipper. Between stoppages of play, teams have 25 seconds before substituting their players except for referee stoppages for TV commercials. In her haste, she loses a glass slipper which the prince finds. Between each period there is a 15 minute intermission. However, on the third (or only) night, she loses track of the time and must flee the castle before her disguise vanishes. Each game is 60 minutes composed of three 20 minute periods. In the three-ball version, Cinderella keeps a close watch on the time the first two nights and is able to leave without difficulty. 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.

Unfortunately, the magic comes to an end at the first stroke of midnight. The overtime is sudden death with the game ending when either team scores a goal. In some versions of the tale, there are three balls, though most tellings mention only one. 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. Forced into a life of domestic servitude, hence the nickname, as she was forced to tend the fireplace, Cinderella accepts the help of her attendant spirit ("fairy godmother") who transforms her to attend a royal ball and attract the attention of the handsome prince. If the score is tied at the end of an overtime period, additional overtime periods are played until a winner is determined. The familiar plot revolves around a girl deprived of her rightful station in the family and given the cruel nickname "Cinderella" by her horrible stepmother and step-sisters. 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. The best-known version was written by the French author, Charles Perrault in 1697, based on a common folk tale earlier recorded by Giambattista Basile as La Gatta Cennerentola in 1634, but the animated film from Walt Disney Productions, (see Cinderella (1950 film)) has become the standard contemporary version despite the fact that it somewhat sanitises the original plotline. In each round the higher-ranked team is said to be the team with the home-ice advantage. It appeared in The Miscellaneous Record of You Yang (酉阳杂俎) by Tuan Ch'eng-Shih, a book which dates from the Tang Dynasty. 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. The earliest version of the story originated in China around AD 860. 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.

Cinderella is a popular fairy tale embodying a classic folk tale myth-element of unjust oppression/triumphant reward, which received literally hundreds of tellings before modern times. 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. The Ash Girl by Timberlake Wertenbaker. 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. I was a Rat! or The Scarlet Slippers by Philip Pullman. 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. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister by Gregory Maguire. 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.

Phoenix and Ashes by Mercedes Lackey. At the end of the regular season, the team that finishes with the most points in each division is crowned the division champion. The Glass Slipper by Eleanor Farjeon. Points are awarded for each game as follows:. Just Ella by Margaret Peterson Haddix. The two divisions from the opposite conference which each team plays against will be rotated every year, much like interleague play in baseball. Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. 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.

Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett. Each team in the NHL plays 82 regular season games, 41 games at home and 41 on the road. Ella Enchanted, starring Minnie Driver and Anne Hathaway (2004). For a list of previous teams see List of defunct NHL teams. Cinderelmo, a Cinderella story featuring Sesame Street's Elmo and Keri Russell. Over the years many different organizations have existed. A Cinderella Story, released July 16, 2004, is a modernization of the classic fairy tale featuring Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray. The National Hockey League currently has 30 teams divided into two conferences, and 6 divisions, an organization that started in the year 2000.

Cinderella, a 2000 British production set in mid-20th century and starring Kathleen Turner. 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. Ever After, 1998, starring Drew Barrymore. Of those 15 games, 11 were in front of sell out crowds. Cinderella, 1997 with Brandy and Whitney Houston. On October 5, 2005, the first post-lockout NHL season got under way with 15 games. Cindy, made for television, 1978. 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 Slipper and the Rose, a 1976 British musical film starring Gemma Craven and Richard Chamberlain. 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. Tři oříšky pro Popelku (Three Nuts for Cinderella), Czech movie 1973. 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. Cinderfella, 1960, notorious because the main character is a man, played by Jerry Lewis. 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. Cinderella, 1957 with Julie Andrews. The resulting collective bargaining agreement was set for renegotiation in 1998 and extended to September 15, 2004.

The Glass Slipper, 1955, with Leslie Caron and Michael Wilding. 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. A Cinderella III is set to be released in 2006. 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. A direct-to-video sequel, Cinderella II: Dreams Come True, was released in 2002. There have been three work stoppages in NHL history, all happening between 1992 and 2005. Cinderella, an animated feature released on February 14, 1950, now considered one of Disney's "classics". 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.

Cinderella (Зо́лушка), Russian musical film of 1947, 84 min, by Lenfilm studios. In 1993, the NHL added an additional two teams, the Anaheim Mighty Ducks and the Florida Panthers. This film was about 7 minutes long. The San Jose Sharks debuted in 1991, a season later the Ottawa Senators would join the NHL along with the Tampa Bay Lightning. Cinderella, an animated Laugh-O-Gram produced by Walt Disney, first released on December 6, 1922. In the early 90's the NHL expanded further with five new franchises. Cinderella, 1911 silent film, starring Florence La Badie. As of 2005, the Oilers are the last remaining original WHA franchise still playing in the city where they began in the NHL.

Cinderella, the 1899 first ever film version produced in France by Georges Méliès. Four of the remaining six WHA teams merged with the NHL: The Hartford Whalers, Québec Nordiques, Edmonton Oilers, and Winnipeg Jets. Into the Woods by Stephen Sondheim (Cinderella is only a small part of this plot). The two leagues fought for the services of hockey players and fans until the WHA folded in 1979. Mister Cinders, which was filmed in 1934. The dilution of the talent pool, however, caused the overall quality of play to suffer. In 2005 the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical was adapted for the stage, also starring Paolo Montalban and with an ethnically diverse cast. 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.

Cinderella (1997) featuring Brandy, Paolo Montalban, Whitney Houston, Whoopi Goldberg, Victor Garber, Bernadette Peters, and Jason Alexander, considered by Amazon.com to be weak despite its diverse cast. Though it never challenged for the Stanley Cup, its status as a viable NHL rival was unquestionable. Cinderella (1965) featuring Lesley Ann Warren, Stuart Damon, Ginger Rogers, Walter Pidgeon, and Celeste Holm, considered by Amazon.com to be the best TV version. In 1972, the World Hockey Association (WHA) was formed. Cinderella (1957) featuring Julie Andrews, Jon Cypher, Kaye Ballard, Alice Ghostley and Edith Adams. Three years later, the NHL added the Vancouver Canucks and Buffalo Sabres as franchises. Cinderella by Rodgers and Hammerstein, which was produced for television three times: