College hockey's new icing rule is a work in progress. In five games at Magness Arena, the rule has been broken, bent or misunderstood.The rule is simple: A team that ices the puck to stop play cannot make a line change. It's the same standard the NHL adopted in 2005, which prevents exhausted players in the defensive end from seeking relief by blasting the puck the length of the ice to stop play.
It is designed to give the pressuring team an advantage by continuing to play against tired players, but in seemingly every University of Denver home game, the officiating crews have allowed partial changes by not preventing players from going to the bench or jumping onto the ice before the whistle is blown for icing. (read rest of article)
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See, I thought that this was the new rule. I wasn't sure though because in the three games I've been at there has been many a change during an icing call.
How can the players be expected to follow the rules when even the referees obviously don't know what's going on???
Shenanigans!!!!!
If the refs catch someone leaving the ice during an icing, it should be a two minute penalty.
Probably not a bad idea ... it would keep coaches and players honest.
But at the same time ... if the refs did their job properly; no one would try to take advantage of their incompetence.
I blame Swaider. Why? Because most things in the universe tend to be his fault. I read it on the internets.
OSU was breaking this rule both nights over and over. The refs kept forgetting in the immediate moment and OSU was totally taken advantage of it. Swaider wasn't waddling in the house last weekend so can't blame him.
I always blame Swaider.
Lousy pear.
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