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Problems With New Icing Rule
by Paul on 09/25/08 at 12:45 PM ET
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from Rory Boylen of the Hockey News,
And now this new rule will only put the refs under an even more magnified microscope lens.
“Any contact between opposing players while pursuing the puck on an icing must be for the sole purpose of playing the puck and not for eliminating the opponent from playing the puck. Unnecessary or dangerous contact could result in penalties being assessed to the offending player.”
This is how the league’s new rule reads. It sounds simple enough, but if two guys are skating beside one another towards the end boards, are the officials really going to call it if the players’ skate blades nick? Or what if the players’ shoulders nudge, while they are frantically trying to pick up speed? They haven’t got to the puck yet, so technically they aren’t playing it yet.
These are the types of calls that will get blurred together. One ref might call it one night, while another sees it as too ticky-tack (and rightfully so) the next.
As a KK reader suggested in a blog from David Lee of Red and Black Hockey, maybe we should do a poll. So we are… Do you like the new icing rule? Vote below…
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