Romang67
BitterSwede
Are you saying you don't understand the rule? Or are you just feigning ignorance?The rule is grammatically nonsense it doesn't say you can't skate into people. It actually parses into you can't skate.
"A minor or major penalty shall be imposed on a player who skates, jumps into or charges an opponent in any manner."
This rule has three cases, a player who:
1. Skates
2. Jumps into
3. Charges an opponent in any manner
Since a plain text reading of penalizing any player who skates is asinine we are forced to assume they made an error and mean:
A player who charges an opponent by:
1. Skating into them
2. Jumping into them
3. Charging them by any other manner
In which case we look at the second paragraph and how the NHL defines charging. Which would hardly preclude all skating into someone.
The phrase 'force from the ground' doesn't show up anywhere. What do you mean when you say this?
Yes, if a phrase doesn't show up in a rule describing limitations, it means that is not prohibited by that rule. Given that you said you wanted the rule amended, I assumed you knew that exerting force from the ground wasn't prohibited by the charging rule.
Since we're at the point where you're discussing grammar in the NHL rulebook, I can only assume that you either agree that prohibiting players from exerting force from the ground would essentially mean you're outlawing hitting, or you've just decided to waste my time. Either way, I'm back to work.