RICK'S RULES

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The Rules
Icing - Icing the puck is not permitted when teams are at equal strength. Icing occurs when a player shoots the puck from behind the center (red) line and it crosses the goal line at any point except into the goal itself. When this occurs, play is stopped and the puck is returned to the other end of the ice for a face-off in the offending team’s end. If the puck were to cross the goal line into the goal then the goal is counted.

Icing the puck is not called:
If the puck cuts across part of the goal crease.
If the goalie plays the puck by leaving the net.
When a defending opponent, in the judgment of the linesman, could have played the puck before it crossed the red goal line.
When a team is playing short-handed because of a penalty or penalties.

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Joined: 04 Jan 2006

HOCKEY POINTS

Off-sides - A team is offside when a member of the attacking team crosses the defending team’s blue line before the puck does. The position of the player’s skate is what determines whether he is off-side or not. The position of the player’s stick does not. The attacking player can have one skate in the offensive zone while having the other skate on the blue line and still be on-side. This year, players have the opportunity to ‘tag-up’ if they are off-side. The off-sides player can skate to the blue line, touch it and then continue back into the offensive zone.
student of the game , this is important part of the class , no sleeping allowed. go Irish , support the team to the frozen four. :)

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Offside - A team is offside when a member of the attacking team crosses the defending team’s blue line before the puck does. The position of the player’s skate is what determines whether he is offside or not. The position of the player’s stick does not. The attacking player can have one skate in the offensive zone while having the other skate on the blue line and still be onside. this happens quite often as the players get caught up in the heat of the moment. :)

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The Players
Goaltender - The goaltenders job is to keep stop the puck from entering the net. The goalie may use any part of his body or any piece of equipment that he has to stop the puck. He is also allowed to catch and smother the puck after stopping it.
Defenseman - There are two defenseman on the ice at once, a right and a left. The defensemen’s job is stop incoming plays by the opposing team. They cover the opposing team’s forwards as they advance, block shots, and clear the puck out from in front of their team’s net. Offensively, the defensemen get the puck to the forwards, follow the play into the attacking zone, and then try to keep the puck inside the opposing team’s blue line.
Center - The center primarily operates down the middle of the ice surface. He is the primary playmaker on his line. He passes the puck between the two wings to help set up goals. On defense the center tries to break up the opposing team’s play before it gets to his team’s side of the ice.
Wings There are two wings on the ice (right and left). The wings move up and down their sides of the ice with the flow of play. They work with the center in the offensive zone in order to set up plays and shots on goal. Defensively, they match up with the opposing team’s wings in order to disrupt play and keep them from shooting. 8)

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Penalty Signal Description
Boarding A deliberate check delivered to an opponent from behind violently into the boards. (2 minutes)
Charging A deliberate move of over two strides before hitting an opposing player. (2 minutes)
Cross Checking Using the stick to make contact with another player while holding it with both hands and not having any part of the stick on the ice. (2 or 5 minutes)
Elbowing Using the elbow to his an opponent illegally. (2 minutes)
High-Sticking Raising the stick above the shoulders with both hands and delivering a strike on an opponent. (2 minutes)
Holding Using one's hands to grab or wrap up an opponent to impede his movement. (2 minutes)
Hooking Using one's hands to grab or wrap up an opponent to impede his movement. (2 minutes)
Interference Impeding the movement of a player that does not have possession of the puck, including checking. (2 minutes)
Misconduct Called on a player for flagrant poor sportsmanship. The player serving the penalty can be replaced on the ice immediately. Once the penalty is over, the player must remain off the ice until the next stoppage in play. (10 minutes)
Roughing Called for minor shoving, scuffling or fighting. (2 minutes)
Slashing Swinging one's stick violently in order to disrupt an opponent. (2 minutes)
Spearing Using the stick to jab at an opponent. (5 minutes)
Tripping Causing an opposing player to trip by using the stick or any part of their body. (2 minutes)
Unsportsmanlike Conduct Acting in an abusive manner toward any player or official. (2 minutes
i I think if you can learn the signals, or at least some of them i think that you will see that hockey officials do an excellent job of controlling the game, O yea when they get their Irish up there is a fight, just watch the ref, wait til he can stop it , sometimes it funny. have a nice day and enjoy the game. :lol:

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How Did Hockey Get Started?
The creation of ice hockey can't be traced to any one person or event. The game most likely evolved from British field sports such as hurley and shinty. The word hockey may have come from the French word hoquet, which was the name for the hooked sticks used to bat a ball or cork around. These sports were similar to field hockey, and are still played today.
During the winter, some players must have tried playing the game on ice. The long, frigid winters in Canada allowed this variation to catch on quickly in the 19th century, and the game also spread into the Scandinavian countries, as well as Russia. Hockey would develop independently in Russia, until the Russian hockey program converted to the Canadian style and rules in the 1930s.

The first documented hockey game took place on March 3, 1875, in Montreal, Quebec. The earliest games featured nine players per side on the ice, with a square rink that had no boards. Only a low curb separated the crowd from the action. Over the course of several decades, the game slowly morphed into something resembling modern hockey: The number of players on the ice decreased; players began firing shots that rose up off the ice, forcing goalies to adopt thick leg pads and a wide stick blade.
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BASIC HOCKEY RULES

Hockey Basics
Although rules for the National Hockey League differ from European and international hockey in some ways, the NHL is widely considered the premier hockey league in the world, so we'll take a look at the NHL rules.
Hockey is played on a sheet of ice 200 feet (61 meters) long by 85 feet (26 m) wide. The nets are 6 feet (1.8 m) wide by 4 feet (1.2 m) high. The puck is a disc of vulcanized rubber 1 inch (2.5 cm) thick and 3 inches (7.6 cm) in diameter. It weights about 6 ounces (170 grams). Pucks are actually frozen before the game and kept in a cooler so they don't bounce as much when they're in play.


The 60-minute game is divided into three 20-minute periods. If the teams are tied at the end of 60 minutes of play, a 5-minute sudden-death overtime period is played. During the playoffs, teams continue playing additional 20-minute sudden-death overtimes until one team scores.

Six skaters per team are on the ice at a time: a goaltender, or goalie, who stays on the ice for the duration of the game (barring injury), and five skaters who take rotating shifts that last from 30 seconds to two minutes or more. Usually, there are three forwards (left wing, right wing, and center) and two defenseman on the ice. In certain situations, some teams play with four forwards on the ice and one defenseman.

A hockey rink is marked by a red center line, which divides the surface into two halves of 100 feet (30.5 m) each. There are also goal lines running across the rink 13 feet (4 m) from each end. Sixty feet (18 m) from each goal line is a blue line, which marks the boundary of each team's defensive zone.

The nets are positioned with their fronts at the red goal line. To score a goal, players must get the puck into the opposing team's net. The puck must completely cross the goal line for the goal to count. It can deflect off of any rink surface, or any part of any player on the ice, including feet, prior to entering the net, and still count as a goal, with a few exceptions: If the puck is deliberately kicked in, or batted in with a hand, the goal will be disallowed. Also, the puck can't be struck with a stick above the 4-foot crossbar of the net.

There are two linesmen on the ice during a game. It's their job to call off-side and icing (see below). Two referees also man every NHL game. They can be differentiated from the linesmen by their bright orange armbands.

When a player moves into the opposing team's zone, the puck must cross the blue line before his skates do. If any attacking player has both skates across the blue line before the puck, off-side is called. This results in a face-off.

At the start of each period, and after stoppages in play due to goals, penalties or the puck leaving the rink, play is initiated with a face-off. The centers from each team face each other over a face-off location designated by the official, and the other skaters line up at least 15 feet (4.6 m) away. The official drops the puck directly between the opposing centers, who then vie for control using their sticks and feet.

The Red Line
The center red line is painted as a dotted or broken line, while the blue lines are solid. This wasn't always so. When hockey games were first televised, it was difficult to tell the lines apart on black-and-white TVs, so they started painting the red line differently.

Hockey has a second form of off-side, known as the two-line pass. As the name implies, a two-line pass off-side is called if a player receives a pass that has crossed one of the blue lines and the center red line before he touches it.

The last "line rule" in hockey is icing. This rule was put into place several decades ago to prevent teams from simply slapping the puck the length of the ice to waste time. If a player shoots the puck into the opposing team's zone from his side of the red line, and the puck crosses the goal line at the other end without anyone touching it, and an opposing player other than the goalie then touches it first, icing is called on the attacking team. This results in a face-off in the attacking team's zone. But if someone on the attacking team is the first to touch the puck, or if the defending team's goalie touches it first, the icing is waived off. MORE HOCKEY TO FOLLOW, SUPPORT OUR IRISH. :lol:

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well now that you have abasic knowledge of some hockey come out and suppoty the irish on their next home game feb 3, vs michigan {PLANT THE FLAG] state, go irish. :lol: 8)

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January 20. 2006 6:59AM

ND, Valpo among best in grad rate lists


South Bend tribune story


Almost two dozen Division I schools, led by Radford's 100 percent, reported Graduation Success Rates of at least 95 percent for athletes who enrolled from 1995 to 1998. All were higher than their general student populations and significantly higher than the rates reported by the federal government, according to NCAA figures released Thursday.

The average for the 318 Division I colleges, including the Army, Navy and Air Force academies, was 76 percent.

The graduation rate at Notre Dame is the highest in the nation among the schools competing at the Division I-A level in football in the federal report and the second-highest in GSR. Notre Dame's federal graduation rate is 90.4 percent, slightly ahead of Duke at 89.6 percent. The federal rate is based on the raw percentage of student-athletes who graduated within six years. Students who leave or transfer, regardless of academic standing, are considered non graduates.


Notre Dame's 98 percent GSR is second to the 99 percent of the U.S. Naval Academy, which, like all the military academies, is exempt from the federal survey because it does not offer grants-in-aid to student-athletes.

The Graduation Success Rate was created to more accurately reflect actual graduation rates by including transfer data.

The remainder of the top five after Notre Dame and Duke among I-A universities in the federal survey are Stanford at 88 percent, Northwestern at 86 percent, and Rice at 83 percent. On the GSR, the rest of the top five I-A schools following Navy and Notre Dame are Clemson and Northwestern, both at 97 percent, and Duke at 93 percent.

Other GSR averages among all schools at the Division I schools included 69 percent for men, 86 percent for women, 82 percent for whites, 59 percent for blacks, and 68 percent for Hispanics.

Radford was the only Division I school with a 100 percent GSR for 1995-98, the most recent reporting period.

Next after Radford was the U.S. Naval Academy at 99 percent. Notre Dame and Valparaiso (Ind.), tied at 98 percent. Clemson, Holy Cross, Lehigh, Siena, Georgetown, Northwestern, Richmond and Davidson were at 97 percent; Duke and Sacred Heart were at 96 percent; and Army, William and Mary, Creighton, The Citadel, Loyola, Md., Villanova and Robert Morris were at 95 percent.

The NCAA considers any rate above 50 percent, a standard adopted by the privately funded Knight Commission on college sports, to be good, President Myles Brand said.

"This is not Lake Wobegon, where every student athlete and every team can be above average," Brand said. "The 50 percent rate, while not sacrosanct, is a good rate to measure whether we're making progress."

At the other end of the scale, 13 schools, most of them historically black colleges in the South or Southwest, had a GSR below 50 percent.

Savannah State had the lowest, at 22 percent, followed by Florida A&M at 35 percent, Texas Southern at 36 percent, New Orleans at 38 percent and Norfolk State and Charleston Southern at 40 percent. The others below 50 percent were UTEP, Gardner-Webb, Jackson State, Idaho State, Nicholls State, Alabama A&M and Arkansas-Pine Bluff.

"Clearly you're going to have to look at socio-economic backgrounds and particularly the quality of the high school they attended," Brand said of the black-white difference. "There may well be other factors, but we don't have the research to support that right now. 8)
/./././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././././///// tHIS IS WHY notre dame, has students first, and players next. way to go irish. :D