Rule / Situation of the week Be the Referee!!! Welcome to our Rule/Situation(s) of Week! Welcome back! This week’s column will be more on a rule clarification than on a judgement play! A few times a year, sometimes when a team is killing a penalty, there will be a second left on the penalty […]
Category Archives: Know the Rules
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Dec
Dec
Rule / Situation of the week Be the Referee!!! Welcome to our Rule/Situation(s) of Week! Welcome back! In this week’s column, we will go over a situation that happens several times every year; two teams refusing to play the puck! Yep, that’s right, there is sometime situations where both teams avoids from playing the puck in […]
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Nov
Nov
Rule / Situation of the week Welcome back! Last week in Pittsburgh, when the New York Rangers were visiting, the fans and the viewers got to witness a wild finish! The Rangers thought they had won the game in the shootout and were back in their dressing room celebrating when the officials brought them back […]
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Nov
Nov
Rule / Situation of the week Be the Referee!!! Welcome to our Rule/Situation(s) of Week! Welcome back! This week’s column will bring to light an illegal tactic used by some teams to gain a competitive advantage on a “on the fly” player’s substitution. For safety reasons, players are allowed to step on the ice […]
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Nov
Nov
Rule / Situation of the week Be the Referee!!! Welcome to our Rule/Situation(s) of Week! Welcome back! This week’s column will feature Rule 83; off-side. Nowadays, every NHL arenas have multiples HD cameras everywhere in their building in order to be able to entertain all hockey fans with some spectacular images of the game. Although that […]
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Nov
Nov
Rule / Situation of the week Be the Referee!!! Welcome to our Rule/Situation(s) of Week! Welcome back! In this week’s column, we will go over a situation that happened last week in Pittsburgh (October 28th vs NJ Devils @ 2:12 of the Second Period). You can watch the video here: http://www.nhl.com/ice/blogpost.htm?id=33135 On this play, the […]
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Oct
Oct
Rule / Situation of the week Welcome to our Rule/Situation(s) of Week! Welcome back! In this week’s column, we will go over some uncommon “high-sticks” situations that are allowed in the game of hockey! There’s two different types of “high-sticks” situations in our game, first there’s the action of contacting an opponent with a stick […]
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Oct
Oct
Rule / Situation of the week Welcome back! The NHL season is off to a good start and we have already seen plenty of bizarre plays happening in the games played so far! In two separate games last week, while one team had a delayed penalty signaled against them, one of their players who was […]
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Oct
Oct
Rule / Situation of the week Be the Referee!!! Welcome to our FIRST Rule Situation(s) of Week! Every Mondays for the next 25 weeks (during the regular season schedule) we will explain in this column some bizarre or uncommon game’s situation/rule. Hockey is a particular game when it comes to the rulebook. Hockey officials need […]
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