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The 'Third Defenseman' Era: A Look at the NHL's Trapezoid Rule

If you look closely at the ice behind an NHL net, you’ll see two diagonal lines forming a four-sided shape. This is the trapezoid, and it wasn’t put there for decoration.

  Martin Brodeur News / MSG Networks / October 6, 2018/

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