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Barclays ___MASK81___ is a multi - purpose indoor arena in the New York City borough of Brooklyn . It sits partially on a platform over the Metropolitan Transportation Authority ( MTA )- owned Vanderbilt Yards rail yard at Atlantic Avenue for the Long Island Rail Road ( LIRR ). It is part of a $ 4 . 9 billion future business and residential complex now known as Pacific Park . In ice hockey , the ___MASK25___ is the player responsible for preventing the hockey puck from entering their team ' s net , thus preventing the opposing team from scoring . The ___MASK25___ usually plays in or near the area in front of the net called the " goal crease " ( often referred to simply as " the crease " or " the net "). Goaltenders tend to stay at or beyond the top of the crease to cut down on the angle of shots . In today ' s age of goaltending there are two common styles , butterfly and hybrid ( hybrid is a mix of the traditional stand - up style and butterfly technique ). Because of the power of shots , the ___MASK25___ wears special equipment designed to protect the body from direct impact . The goalie is one of the most valuable players on the ice , as their performance can greatly change the outcome or score of the game . One - on - one situations , such as breakaways and shootouts , have the tendency to highlight a ___MASK25___ ' s pure skill , or lack thereof . Only one ___MASK25___ is allowed to be on the ice for each team at any given time . The New Jersey Devils are a professional ice hockey team based in Newark , New Jersey . They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ). The club was founded as the Kansas City Scouts in Kansas City , Missouri , in 1974 . The Scouts moved to Denver , Colorado in 1976 and became the Colorado Rockies . In 1982 , they moved to East Rutherford , New Jersey and took their current name . For their first 25 seasons in New Jersey , the Devils were based at the Meadowlands Sports Complex in East Rutherford and played their home games at Brendan Byrne Arena ( later renamed to Continental Airlines Arena ). Beginning with the 2007  08 season , the Devils relocated to Newark and now play their home games at the Prudential ___MASK81___ . The National Hockey League ( NHL ) is a professional ice hockey league currently composed of 31 member clubs . Of the 30 clubs currently playing , 23 are in the United States and 7 in Canada . Headquartered in New York City , the NHL is considered to be the premier professional ice hockey league in the world , and one of the major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada . The Stanley Cup , the oldest professional sports trophy in North America , is awarded annually to the league playoff champion at the ___MASK31___ of each season . Brooklyn is the most populous borough of New York City , with a Census - estimated 2 , 636 , 735 residents in 2015 . It borders the borough of Queens at the southwestern ___MASK31___ of Long Island . Since 1896 , Brooklyn has had the same boundaries as Kings County , the most populous county in the U . S . state of New York , and the second - most densely populated county in the United States , after the county of New York ( which is coextensive with the borough of Manhattan ). Minsk (; is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Belarus , situated on the Svislach and Nyamiha rivers . It is the administrative ___MASK52___ of the Commonwealth of Independent States ( CIS ). As the national capital , Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the administrative ___MASK52___ of Minsk Region ( voblast ) and Minsk raion ( district ). In 2013 , it had a population of 2 , 002 , 600 . The City of New York , often called New York City or simply New York , is the most populous city in the United States . With an estimated 2015 population of 8 , 550 , 405 distributed over a land area of just , New York City is also the most densely populated major city in the United States . Located at the southern tip of the state of New York , the city is the ___MASK81___ of the New York metropolitan area , one of the most populous urban agglomerations in the world . A global power city , New York City exerts a significant impact upon commerce , finance , media , art , fashion , research , technology , education , and entertainment , its fast pace defining the term " New York minute ". Home to the headquarters of the United Nations , New York is an important ___MASK81___ for international diplomacy and has been described as the cultural and financial capital of the world . Ice hockey is a contact team sport played on ice , usually in a rink , in which two teams of skaters use their sticks to shoot a vulcanized rubber puck into their opponent ' s net to score points . Ice hockey teams usually consist of six players each : one ___MASK25___ , and five players who skate up and down the ice trying to take the puck and score a goal against the opposing team . Belarus ( lat . ',      ), officially the Republic of Belarus , formerly known by its Russian name Byelorussia ( though this name is no longer used in Belarus itself , even in Russian language ), is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe bordered by Russia to the northeast , Ukraine to the south , Poland to the west , and Lithuania and Latvia to the northwest . Its capital and most populous city is Minsk . Over 40 % of its is forested . Its strongest economic sectors are service industries and manufacturing . Until the 20th century , different states at various times controlled the lands of modern - day Belarus , including the Principality of Polotsk ( 11th to 14th centuries ), the Grand Duchy of Lithuania , the Polish  Lithuanian Commonwealth , and the Russian Empire . The New York Islanders are a professional ice hockey team based in New York City . They are members of the Metropolitan Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ( NHL ). The team plays its home games at Barclays ___MASK81___ , located in the borough of Brooklyn . The Islanders are one of three NHL franchises in the New York metropolitan area , along with the New Jersey Devils and New York Rangers , and their primary geographic fan base resides on Long Island . Michail Jurjevi Hraboski ( Belarusian :   ' i  ; born January 31 , 1984 ) , better known as Mikhail Grabovski ( Russian :   ) , is a Belarusian professional ice hockey player currently playing for the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) .