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I LOVE CRAWFORD!
- Mar 6, 2011
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I've what this sport for 40+ years and I do understand (I think) the new icing rules and all but 2 things continue to surprise me no matter what game I am watching.
1) There seems to be MANY times when with the naked eye it appears the play is off-sides...not "by a mile" mind you but certainly appears offside and when I go back on the DVR and slow it down it looks again like it surely is. I'm guessing the league wants it that way to speed up the game unless it is an "obvious" offside? Because no one seems to argue?
2) The icing is called even if the attacking player is at OR SOMETIMES SLIGHTLY AHEAD of the defender.
That in and of itself drives my nuts but there was a play in one of the first 2 games in ANA where the puck was clearly NOT even going to make it over the goal line extended and in fact stopped about 2 feet shy but the linesman called icing and the hawks did not argue. Is that part of the rule too, that the puck doesn't have to necessarily have to cross the GL, just that it was shot from behind the red line and then the linesman just watch the race?
Can someone tell me if they've seen things this way or am I'm off base?
1) There seems to be MANY times when with the naked eye it appears the play is off-sides...not "by a mile" mind you but certainly appears offside and when I go back on the DVR and slow it down it looks again like it surely is. I'm guessing the league wants it that way to speed up the game unless it is an "obvious" offside? Because no one seems to argue?
2) The icing is called even if the attacking player is at OR SOMETIMES SLIGHTLY AHEAD of the defender.
That in and of itself drives my nuts but there was a play in one of the first 2 games in ANA where the puck was clearly NOT even going to make it over the goal line extended and in fact stopped about 2 feet shy but the linesman called icing and the hawks did not argue. Is that part of the rule too, that the puck doesn't have to necessarily have to cross the GL, just that it was shot from behind the red line and then the linesman just watch the race?
Can someone tell me if they've seen things this way or am I'm off base?