Should the NHL have automatic icing or not. People are split on this one. The automatic crowd will tell you that too many Dmen get hurt when they catch a rut in the ice trying to race for the puck for icing and that the forward rarely wins the race anyway. The no automatic crowd will tell you they love the "hustle play" where a forward gets his stick in there to cancel out the icing. In international hockey, the whistle goes as soon as the puck passes the goal line. Which should the NHL have?
2007-04-05 15:16:20 · 22 answers · asked by Bob Loblaw 7 in Sports ➔ Hockey
Now that i think about it..i dont like automatic icing. Cmon..Defense players can trip over a rut in the ice anytime. Plus i think its just a waste of time..they should keep the game going. I wanna see the race for the puck, and i dont want the game to stop just cuz the puck went behind the goal line.
2007-04-05 15:29:42 · answer #1 · answered by Ohkay 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Personally, I am split on this one. The automatic icing would result in less collisions, but at the same time I haven't really seen that many collisions this year to make me think it's necessary. Most of what I've seen this season is that unless two opposing players are neck and neck coming down, they don't collide or run into the boards. I think the players have become more aware recently and with the wave off now in place, the players know when they have to hustle or not. I just don't really know if automatic icing is really necessary right now. Maybe if we have some serious injuries like they had in the international leagues, I would have a clearer opinion; but like most of the rules and restrictions, it takes a serious injury to change things.
2007-04-06 02:05:35 · answer #2 · answered by Pens Chica 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
as a player i would say I like to see the hustle for the puck, the burst of energy to get there, the fight for the puck! I mean yeah you can hit a rut any time on the ice, so that's not really a good excuse! I think non automatic is a good call. I mean if there is a chance someone will beat the icing let them take it, let the chase begin!
2007-04-05 16:06:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am in favor of automatic icing. It doesnt make sense to risk these guys health to potentially reward a team that had to relieve pressure from their own end most of the time and far too often we see players take advantage of the D turning their back only to have a player not even attempt to touch the puck....rather they leave their feet to deliver a hit. Not sportsmanlike and it really almost never results in a game changing play (unless of course it is a game or worse ending injury to a vauable D-man). If they want to reward hustle then they need to forecheck with the same passion they use to run a guy on an icing call. But the biggest reason personally for me is the idea that on the odd time that a forward does hustle and gets a scoring chance it usually is the end result of a cherry picking forward who put his team in the bad position of needing to ice the puck to relieve pressure in the first place....if he had played D in his own zone he really wouldnt have a shot at getting the touchup in the first place.
2007-04-05 15:33:06 · answer #4 · answered by viphockey4 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go for it. No touch icing would really improve things. I've seen guys injured on the ice from the current rule, and usually not from ruts. I usually see them turning, the forward chasing after and not being able to stop in time. Ruts have nothing to do with it.
No-touch is a much better idea. They should keep the wave off rule, so that if you want to go back and get it you can, but the standard should be no touch. It just makes common sense.
And the breaking up the game thing? Icing does that anyway. You still have to take a faceoff.
2007-04-05 16:28:25 · answer #5 · answered by The Big Box 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There should definitely be no touch icing! there are WAY too many people being hurt and for no good reason. if you watch it when the forward beats out the icing call nothing really happens anyway; he'll move the puck along the boards and the other D-man will pick it up, plus with no touch icing the play will be blown dead right away instead of waiting for the D to go touch it, which will make the game go faster.
GO SENS GO!!!!!
2007-04-05 15:48:48 · answer #6 · answered by Sens Enforcer 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
im split as well because its those hustle plays where goals can be scored on if the foward wins the race and the battle to the lose puck, but i just remember watching marco strum couple years back catch a rout in the ice and seeing his ankle facing the other direction so maybe it would be a good change. good question to ask though bob
2007-04-05 18:48:46 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The NHL should institute automatic icing because it will greatly speed up the game and avoid some serious injuries when a player chasing another charges him into the boards just as he reaches the puck on the backboards.....simple as that.
2007-04-05 16:23:38 · answer #8 · answered by paul m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can we have both?!?!? lol!
I love to watch them race for the puck. Makes the game more exciting.
But when I see someone slam into the boards I think it is dangerous and we should have automatic icing.
The only problem with no touch icing, I think the game could become somewhat boring.
It would break up the momentum in the game too much.
So, my final answer is No to automatic icing. Leave it like it is.
2007-04-05 15:57:59 · answer #9 · answered by lidstromnumber1fan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's my "let's change everything" or even my "sissy side" talking if you want, but I really have never understood what these foot races have added to the game other than the fact someone can get hurt. I see it as you iced it, you iced it, you can't change that with all the hustle in the world. Count me as a fan of the no-touch.
Admittedly, I'd put this something like 100th on the list of things I would change. Not that important to me. You did ask.
2007-04-06 05:09:06 · answer #10 · answered by clueless_nerd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋