Can you get an assist..

[Goonzilla]

..for redirecting the puck with your skate to a team mate who scores, either a) by deliberately kicking or deflecting it over to the scorer with your skate; or b) accidentally where it takes a deflection off your skate over to the scorer?

 

[capebretoncanadien]

Yes you can.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Assists are awarded to whoever touches the puck. So the answer will be yes in all situations where you touch the puck before a teammate scores.

 

[Goonzilla]

That's interesting, I always presumed that the person getting an assist always had to have had some part in creating the play or setting up the scorer other than just having been the person who touched or passed the puck immediately prior to the scorer scoring.

So if someone merely passed the puck from behind their own goal to someone wheeling back into their own end who then skated back down ice through five defenders and scored the passer would still get an assist?

 

[Kale Makar]

Unless you use your hand, everything that touches you pretty much is an assist.

 

[Pog Form]

So if someone merely passed the puck from behind their own goal to someone wheeling back into their own end who then skated back down ice through five defenders and scored the passer would still get an assist?

Correct. It's not something that's open for interpretation.

 

[BackToTheBrierePatch]

So if someone merely passed the puck from behind their own goal to someone wheeling back into their own end who then skated back down ice through five defenders and scored the passer would still get an assist?

I am sure thats how many goalies get credited with assists

 

[Caps2Fan]

Pretty much the same idea with who gets credited for goals. D-man shoots from the point and the puck inadvertently deflects off a forwards skate/shin pad/etc.. The goal is credited to the forward even though the D was the shooter.

 

[Crosbyfan]

Unless you use your hand, everything that touches you pretty much is an assist.

You can get an assist with your hand as well. Legally if you make the play in your own zone, or by unintentional contact.

 

[Renbarg]

You can get an assist with your hand as well. Legally if you make the play in your own zone, or by unintentional contact.

If the ref doesn't notice an illegal contact with your hand you can get an assist too. This will obviously only apply to high level play where scorekeepers review plays to make sure everyone has the proper credit.

 

[intangible]

Don't forget, too, that assists aren't cut off if the scorer received a pass from a give-and-go that began from a third player. So if player A passes to player B, then player B has a give-and-go with player C and then B scores, both A and C receive assists.

 

[shoeshine boy]

keep in mind though that in beer league hockey you are unlikely to actually be awarded for anything that you didn't do on purpose not because it's not an assist but because the ref likely didn't see it.

 

[intangible]

keep in mind though that in beer league hockey you are unlikely to actually be awarded for anything that you didn't do on purpose not because it's not an assist but because the ref likely didn't see it.

Had that happen last night, lol. Cleared the puck down the ice, but by the time it got to their goal line it had pretty much stopped. My guy picks up the puck, drives to the net, and scores. Unassisted. Fortunately we put in our own stats so we fixed it, anyway, ha.

 

[shoeshine boy]

Had that happen last night, lol. Cleared the puck down the ice, but by the time it got to their goal line it had pretty much stopped. My guy picks up the puck, drives to the net, and scores. Unassisted. Fortunately we put in our own stats so we fixed it, anyway, ha.

maybe I'm not as generous as some people (and admittedly, not a ref) but I don't really see that as a credible assist. it sounds like you were trying to clear the puck out rather than make a pre-meditated pass to a teammate. to me and this is just my way of thinking and has nothing to do with rules or procedures, that would be an unassisted goal.

 

[intangible]

By the rules it's still an assist. By your definition a rebound off a save by the goalie wouldn't be an assist, either, which it is. (I actually wouldn't have a problem saying neither are assists, but the way the rules read both are, fortunately or unfortunately.)

 

[tarheelhockey]

maybe I'm not as generous as some people (and admittedly, not a ref) but I don't really see that as a credible assist. it sounds like you were trying to clear the puck out rather than make a pre-meditated pass to a teammate. to me and this is just my way of thinking and has nothing to do with rules or procedures, that would be an unassisted goal.

There's no interpretation involved in hockey assists. You're thinking more along the lines of basketball.

 

[shoeshine boy]

There's no interpretation involved in hockey assists. You're thinking more along the lines of basketball.

OMG, kill me now! I (mod edit) HATE basketball!

 

[tarheelhockey]

OMG, kill me now! I (mod edit) HATE basketball!

Maybe you're a big basketball fan and you don't even know it