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Chapter 5: How the Game is Played – Starting Play / Face-Offs

Chapter 6: Team and Player Positions

Chapter 9: Penalties – Offsides

Chapter 9: Penalties – Two-Line Pass

Chapter 9: Penalties – Icing

Chapter 12: Things to Look for During Play / Strategy

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Selection From “Ice Hockey Made Simple”:
Section 5: How the Game is Played
Beginning PLAY: FACE-OFFS
Toward the start of every period, anto begin play after it has been quit amid the diversion, a face-off (also otherwise called the draw or the drop) is utilized. (See Figure 9) A face-off is a reasonable approach to guarantee that the two groups have an equivalent possibility of accessing the puck, albeit a few players are superior to anything others at winning face-offs. In a face-off an official drops the puck on the ice between the sticks of two restricting players standing one stick-length separated, each confronting his rival’s finish of the ice. The cutting edges of their sticks must touch the ice, and no other player might be inside 15 feet of them. These two contradicting players contend to touch the puck first and direct it to one of their partners. On the off chance that both of these players isn’t in the correct position when the authority is prepared to drop the puck, the authority may arrange a colleague of that player to take the go head to head. This is the reason you may see a player who is set up for a go head to head skate off surprisingly to be supplanted by a partner in the face-off circle. Another NHL technique acquainted in 2002 with accelerate recreations manages that the puck be dropped inside 20 seconds of a stoppage (aside from amid the last 2 minutes of a diversion or in extra time), regardless of whether the two players have set up their positions at the go head to head spot or circle. The face-off spots and circles are situated at different places around the arena. By and large, unless the tenets indicate generally, a go head to head is held close to where the infraction happened or where play was ceased. One special case is if the stoppage has been caused by an assaulting player in his assaulting zone, at that point the subsequent go head to head is reclaimed in the impartial zone.Copyright © 2002 First Base Sports, Inc. All Rights Reserve

 

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Excerpt From “Ice Hockey Made Simple”:
Chapter 6: Team and Player Positions
figure 10Each hockey team may have a maximum of 6 players on the ice at one time. The first 6 players to begin the game for a team are called the starting lineup. Each player has a certain job to do, and plays a certain position. The 6 positions generally played are goalkeeper (or goalie), left defenseman, right defenseman, center, left wing and right wing. The goalie stays near his team’s goal; of the 5 players that skate around the rink (called skaters), the left and right defensemen comprise the team’s defensive line, and the center, left and right wing together make up the forward line. Copyright © 2002 First Base Sports, Inc. All Rights Reserved

 

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Excerpt From “Ice Hockey Made Simple”:
Chapter 9: Penalties
figure 12Offsides
The purpose of the offside rule is to prevent an attacking player from waiting in front of the opponent’s goal for a long pass from a teammate, giving him an easier chance to score. To prevent this, the rule requires that the attacking players must all follow the puck into the attacking zone; they may not go in ahead of the puck. (Exception: a player in control of the puck who enters the zone ahead of it.) An attacking player is considered offside if both his skates go over the blue line into the attacking zone before the puck does. (See Figure 12) If only one skate is over the blue line, with the player straddling the line, he is onside and there is no infraction. That is why you may sometimes see players skating strangely near the blue line. A face-off is held outside the attacking zone near the spot where the offside violation occurred. Copyright © 2002 First Base Sports, Inc. All Rights Reserved

 

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Excerpt From “Ice Hockey Made Simple”:
Chapter 9: Penalties
figure 13Two-line Pass
The two-line pass (also known as an offside pass) is another type of offside violation. It occurs when a player passes the puck from his defending zone to a teammate across the red center line. (See Figure 13) However, like regular offsides it is no penalty if the puck precedes the player across the center line. A face-off is held at the point from which the illegal pass was made. Copyright © 2002 First Base Sports, Inc. All Rights Reserved

 

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Excerpt From “Ice Hockey Made Simple”:
Chapter 9: Penalties
figure 14Icing
The icing infraction occurs when the team in possession of the puck shoots toward the goal from behind the red center line, the puck goes into the end of the rink across the red goal line (but not into the goal) and then a member of the opposing team other than the goalie touches the puck first. (See Figure 14) A face-off is then held in the penalized team’s defending zone. It is not icing if the puck happens to go into the goal or if a member of the attacking team is the first to touch it. Icing is never called against a team that is playing shorthanded or if the puck is touched by the goalie or any other defender before it crosses the goal line. Additionally, an official who determines that a defender could have easily touched the puck before it crossed the goal line will not call icing. Icing sometimes may be a good strategy for a team’s players. It may provide them with a break in the action, allowing for rest and substitutes, or may give them a chance to plan or change tactics, especially when the opponents are in a good position to score.Copyright © 2002 First Base Sports, Inc. All Rights Reserved

 

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Excerpt From “Ice Hockey Made Simple”:
Chapter 10: Things To Look For During Play / Strategy
ATTACK STRATEGIES
Dumping the Puck Into the Zone
figure 18Because of the offside rule, attacking players must be careful to stay out of the attacking zone until the puck has crossed the blue line. When one or more players from the attacking team are about to commit an offside by crossing the blue line ahead of the puck, their teammate with the puck will often dump or shoot the puck into the attacking zone where they chase after it and hope to regain control. In an example shown in Figure 18, player A dumps the puck so teammates B and C can enter the attacking zone without being offside. Copyright © 2002 First Base Sports, Inc. All Rights Reserved		 GOALIE STRATEGY: CUTTING DOWN THE ANGLE
figure twentyWhen an attacker skates towards the goal with the puck, the goalie will often come out of the goal several feet to cut down the angle of the attacker’s shot, leaving him with less net area to shoot at by making himself closer and larger to the shooter. (See Figure 20) However, this is risky because if an attacker maneuvers the puck past the forward-playing goalie, he has an open shot at the net.

 

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