Icing

[covunistudent]

ok the rules of icing I believe are that if the defending team hit it from behind the half way line to over the attacking goal line (unless it goes in the net) then icing is called. Unless a team is killing a penalty.

This maybe quite a thick question but I'm sure the ref missed an obvious icing incident last night. Perhaps I didn't spot something like a little deflection but I was confused.

So what are the rules on icing?

[jakemurrall7]

i know i think the refs need to clarify this or make it more known to us whats going on, some of the players often think it is icing, as klempa did on sunday and afterwards shaking his head, the calls are too inconsistent

[PW]

From someone who has had cause to dispute more than a few icing calls which have robbed him of breakaways in Chaos games..

Icing is called when a player passes or shoots the puck from his teams side of the centre line, and it crosses the oppostion goal-line without, in the referees judgement, any defensive player being able to reach the puck before it does so. However, icing can be waved off if, in the referees judgement, a defensive player who could have reached the puck before it crossed the goalline did not make sufficient effort to do so, or if the puck was reachable by a defensive player (for example if the puck is cleared out of the zone, and the man on the point fails to stop it either through human error or because he didn´t even make an effort). If the puck goes through the goalie´s crease on the way to the goaline, icing is also waved off.

[covunistudent]

But strictly speaking isn't the goalie a defensive player who could always reach it.

Basically I think if a team want to whack it down the ice, icing should be called all the time, as then theres no confusion.

[JAC]

covunistudent said:

But strictly speaking isn't the goalie a defensive player who could always reach it.

Basically I think if a team want to whack it down the ice, icing should be called all the time, as then theres no confusion.

The goalie isn't counted in icing as he's not an out skater, thats why you'll see some goalies move behid the goal line when they are expecting icing to be called, that way if it is waved off they are still in position to play the puck out.

If you called icing every time a team shot the puck down the ice from inside their own half you'd end up with players not even trying to stop the puck as they'd know they could just leave it and get a face off in the attacking zone.

The easiest way to think about icing is could a skater if they tried get a stick/skate/glove on the puck, or caught it up, etc.

If they had a chance to do that then normally they will wave the icing off.

[covunistudent]

jc21879 said:

If you called icing every time a team shot the puck down the ice from inside their own half you'd end up with players not even trying to stop the puck as they'd know they could just leave it and get a face off in the attacking zone.

But surely if that happened, teams would avoid it, by crossing the half way line before shooting the puck down the ice. Defending teams would be forced to play out of defence rather than hoping the ref doesn't call icing.