In NHL hockey what is meant by the term " tagging up " ?

Answer 1

getting back across the blue line to negate a off side call.

Answer 2

From Wikipedia:

"Tag-up offside is a variation of delayed offside. In a delayed offside situation, if each attacking player who is offside "tags up" by making skate contact on or behind the neutral zone, the delayed offside becomes negated. (Used in Hockey Canada, the IIHF, USA Hockey junior leagues, some North American professional leagues, adult leagues, and the NHL from 1986-1996, and once again after the 2005 Collective Bargaining Agreement.) "

When I first became a fan of the NHL (1992), tag-up offsides was in effect. The took out tag-up offsides in '96 and brought back "delayed offsides" (probably the version of offsides you are familiar with).

The NHL thought it would speed up play with delayed offsides, because once the puck was put in an attacking zone offsides, the attacking team had to withdraw from the attacking zone until the defending team brought the puck out of it's own end; the "free out" rule.

Well, this rule had an opposite effect. It limited forechecking, encouraged the offsides team to go back into their "neutral zone trap", or the offsides team could continue to pursue the puck and force a whistle.

Now with tag-up offsides reinstated, if a puck is dumped in offsides, once all the offside players clear the attacking zone (that's the "tagging up" part), the play is on-sides again. Now there is less whistles, more forechecking, and more open ice in the neutral zone if the defending team can get the puck past the forecheckers.

Answer 3

In the NHL with the new rules tagging up means to be offsides but come back over the line and not be offsides then going back in the zone to make a play

Answer 4

In a delayed offside. It isn't offside yet but if the puck comes in across the blue line it will be whistled down. The puck is outside the attack zone, but you have players in. They have to come out of the zone (tag up) and bring the puck in not offside.

Answer 5

It means your offside and you have to get back to the blue line before your team could bring the puck back into the offensive zone.

Answer 6

I think it refers to a player going back to one of the lines so they don't get called for offsides. That or it refers to icing.

Answer 7

If the puck is shot into the opposing teams zone by you, and one of your players is in their zone, he has to come back onside (tag up) and go back in, in order to keep play active.

Answer 8

getting outside of the zone bc your team went offsides

Answer 9

it means you are off side and you have to go back behind the blue line