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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.
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