Icing
Icing is a term in ice hockey and is translated in German as "Unauthorized Liberation Shot", "Unauthorized Liberation Shot" or "Unauthorized Long Shot". “Unauthorized exemption shot” is the term used in the official translation of the IIHF rules .
definition
If a player from his own half of the game (including the center line) shoots, hits or deflects the puck over the extended goal line, this is called icing (IIHF rule 460). However, the position of the puck when the shot is fired is decisive and not the position of the player himself. According to the international rules of the IIHF, a linesman will whistle the game immediately after the puck has been crossed over the goal line. This rule application is also called "No-Touch-Icing" or "Automatic Icing" . As a result of icing, there is a face-off in the defensive third of the team responsible for icing and the team responsible is not allowed to change during the interruption.
If icing is wrongly decided and this is corrected, a face-off takes place at the face-off point in the middle of the field (IIHF rule 440).
Exceptions
According to the rules of the IIHF, there is no icing if
- a goal is scored by the long-range shot.
- the long-range shot is outnumbered.
- the puck touches an opposing player or the goalkeeper on the body, on the skates or on the stick before crossing the extended goal line.
- the long-range shot is taken directly from the face-off.
- in the opinion of the linesman, a player on the opposing team (with the exception of the goalkeeper) could have played the puck before crossing the extended goal line.
- the goalkeeper leaves his goal area in an icing situation or the goalie is outside his goal area and moves towards the puck.
Since the 2006/07 season, the goal area is no longer considered to be "canceling icing".
Touch icing
The so-called "Touch-Icing" procedure deviates from the international rules . Here the linesman only whistles to the end of the game when a player from the defending team has touched the puck. If a player from the attacking team reaches the puck first, the game continues without interruption. This deviation was used, for example, up to the 2012/13 season in the National Hockey League and should lead to faster game play. However, it is controversial because many people believe that touch icing provokes more serious injuries. For example, the fatal injury of the then Czechoslovak national defender Luděk Čajka in 1990 as a result of touch icing is cited by critics.
Currently, almost all European professional and amateur leagues have abolished "touch icing". The so-called hybrid icing rule also applies in the National Hockey League (since 2013) and the American Hockey League . The line referee (linesman) decides whether an attacking or defending player can run into the target first, the distance to the target is decisive if the player (s) is at the height of the face-off points. There are also stricter rules for body checks in icing situations.
Individual evidence
- ^ Dan Rosen: Hybrid icing tops list of rule changes for 2013-14. National Hockey League , October 1, 2013, accessed December 3, 2013 .