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The Coach's Board will give you the basic rules of the game
Offsides:
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.
Icing:
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.
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