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Hockey rink has big red line in center, and big blue lines on either teams end. It splits the ice in into roughly fourths.
If a team, in their own defensive zone (the one with their own goalie) and behind that big red halfway line sends the Puck from back there into the opposing zone without crossing that big red halfway line first, that’s icing. Defenders can still do it though, as long as the offensive team can reasonably catch up to the puck before it gets to the end wall.
If they do commit icing, the whistle is blown and play is stopped. Puck is then dropped on one of the blue dots of the original defensive zone.
During power plays you can ice the Puck without the whistle being blown.
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Hockey rink has big red line in center, and big blue lines on either teams end. It splits the ice in into roughly fourths.
If a team, in their own defensive zone (the one with their own goalie) and behind that big red halfway line sends the Puck from back there into the opposing zone without crossing that big red halfway line first, that’s icing. Defenders can still do it though, as long as the offensive team can reasonably catch up to the puck before it gets to the end wall.
If they do commit icing, the whistle is blown and play is stopped. Puck is then dropped on one of the blue dots of the original defensive zone.
During power plays you can ice the Puck without the whistle being blown.
Icing is when a player on a team shoots the puck from his team’s side of center ice, and it goes all the way into the end of the rink behind the goal line.
Depending on what level of hockey you’re playing, it’s either immediately a stoppage of play as soon as the puck crosses the goal line, or it’s only a stoppage if a player on the other team touches the puck, or there are some other variations of it.
Icing is when a player on a team shoots the puck from his team’s side of center ice, and it goes all the way into the end of the rink behind the goal line.
Depending on what level of hockey you’re playing, it’s either immediately a stoppage of play as soon as the puck crosses the goal line, or it’s only a stoppage if a player on the other team touches the puck, or there are some other variations of it.
Basically, it’s when one player shoots the puck all the way from their own half of the rink past the other team’s goal. Doing that is not a pass, it’s not a shot, it’s a “get the puck outta here” move. Before the icing rule was created, this was a common way for players to waste time trying to delay the game while their team was ahead.
Basically, it’s when one player shoots the puck all the way from their own half of the rink past the other team’s goal. Doing that is not a pass, it’s not a shot, it’s a “get the puck outta here” move. Before the icing rule was created, this was a common way for players to waste time trying to delay the game while their team was ahead.
Hockey is boring if people just shoot it to the opposite end to kill time. Thus, there is an icing rule.
If you shoot the puck, and it crosses the middle (red) line, a blue line, then the skinny goal line (also red), and the first player to it is the team whose goalie is at that end, it is icing.
It is NOT icing if it is touched after it crosses any of those lines, or if the opposite team reaches it (opposite to the goalie at that end).
Hockey is boring if people just shoot it to the opposite end to kill time. Thus, there is an icing rule.
If you shoot the puck, and it crosses the middle (red) line, a blue line, then the skinny goal line (also red), and the first player to it is the team whose goalie is at that end, it is icing.
It is NOT icing if it is touched after it crosses any of those lines, or if the opposite team reaches it (opposite to the goalie at that end).
It’s easier to understand if you understand WHY it’s a rule first.
Imagine 2 teams, red team, and blue team. Back in the day, a strategy for hockey was score a goal, and then for the rest of the game just turtle in front of your net. This led to a lot of boring 1-0 hockey games. Blue team would score a goal, and then just sit back in front of their net. When red team shot, someone would block it somehow and launch the puck back down the ice. Red team would have to go get it, skate back into Blue’s zone and repeat over and over again.
The league decided to create an “anti-defensing” rule that said you can’t do that. If you want to dump it down the ice, you have to at least come halfway, then you can dump it.
So that’s the rule. You can’t just yeet the puck down the ice. You have to come to at least the red line before the dump. If it crosses the goal line (the other red line) from behind the center ice line, that’s icing.
Some things negate icing. You’re allowed to ice the puck when your team is killing a penalty. If an “attacking” player gets there first it’s not icing, if it hits a defender or goes through the crease it’s not icing, etc.
At one time, early 70s?, it was also icing if you made a two line pass, ie, you passed the puck to a teammate and it crossed two lines.
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