What was the rule you struggled without the most?

[PistolPete]

It's the rare overtime/tight game deciding penalty that people don't like. We all know refs put the whistle away in overtime. Players get a way with some pretty egregious plays that would be called 10 times out of 10 in regulation or regular season, and then a player has a puck slip off his stick and it goes over the glass and it's off to the penalty box for you! Meanwhile, guys are being hooked, held, tripped, interfered with with impunity. If you're going to let most things go.....let everything go.

They know the rule ahead of time. They know it's called every time. If they want to avoid the risk of getting a penalty, don't aim to shoot it high off the glass and risk it going over the glass.

They are even given a leeway of if it hits the glass first it's not a penalty and still carelessly shoot it over.

I am willing to see a SC GWG scored that way.

It was nauseating how often they shot it over the glass before the rule change

 

[SheldonJPlankton]

Retaliatory penalties.

The officials stand around and refuse to call the most blatant of infractions and when somebody gets frustrated and pairs one cheap shot with another...now it's time to bring the whistle out?

 

[Grifter3511]

They know the rule ahead of time. They know it's called every time. If they want to avoid the risk of getting a penalty, don't aim to shoot it high off the glass and risk it going over the glass.

They are even given a leeway of if it hits the glass first it's not a penalty and still carelessly shoot it over.

I am willing to see a SC GWG scored that way.

It was nauseating how often they shot it over the glass before the rule change

That's great that you enjoy it. Im telling you exactly what a lot of people DONT like about it. It's already pretty much the chinziest penalty called as half the time it's a complete accident and the player doing it isn't even in trouble, the puck just gets away from him. It gets significantly exacerbated by letting every other penalty go by.

Im willing to bet if one of your defenders got ran from behind and was down and the refs let it go and in desperation his partner shot it over the glass and your team lost on the subsequent power play goal, you wouldn't be too happy.

Why can every single other penalty be at the ref's discretion but not the dumbest one?

 

[AlwaysSunnyInTampa]

I understood the second I first played! You guys are weaksauce!

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

That's great that you enjoy it. Im telling you exactly what a lot of people DONT like about it. It's already pretty much the chinziest penalty called as half the time it's a complete accident and the player doing it isn't even in trouble, the puck just gets away from him. It gets significantly exacerbated by letting every other penalty go by.

Im willing to bet if one of your defenders got ran from behind and was down and the refs let it go and in desperation his partner shot it over the glass and your team lost on the subsequent power play goal, you wouldn't be too happy.

Why can every single other penalty be at the ref's discretion but not the dumbest one?

Because it being at the ref's discretion will only make it more infuriating as we watch a referee try and discern what the player's intention was.

In your example, the lack of a penalty on the defender getting run from behind is the problem, not the puck over the glass.

If a player isn't even under pressure, then they have time to make a more skilled play than throwing it high and hard off the glass. The penalty encourages keeping the puck on the ice which leads to more breakouts or more turnovers. Either way it's more exciting hockey than a puck in the stands or high and hard off the glass.

 

[I am Canadian]

Crosschecking

 

[Nico Hischier]

I think everybody here understands hockey at this point, but that wasn't always the case.

What I want to know is what rule gave you the most trouble?

For me it was offside, offside took me a probably 3 years, I struggled with offside a long time

I still struggle with offsides. No matter what anyone says about this goal , it is offsides in my mind.

 

[dr robbie]

In older video games (e.g. Ice Hockey and Blades of Steel on the NES) only the loser of a fight would get a penalty. I struggle with watching both players go to the box after one gets destroyed by the other.

 

[Chainshot]

Played & watched since I was little so never had this experience

It seems like they should bring back Peter puck.

 

[LightningStrikes]

When an icing is waved off or not. Still unclear sometimes today.

 

[Summer Rose]

When an icing is waved off or not. Still unclear sometimes today.

That's a fun one because it's one of the few areas where the linesman has the leeway to make a judgement call. The back linesman "initiates" the call by raising his arm to indicate that it was shot by a defending player from behind his own red line, and not deflected. Then the front linesman can call it off if he judges that a player had the opportunity to play the puck before it crosses the goal line "with ordinary effort," to summarize how it works, but it gets foggy because sometimes you don't agree with the linesman's judgement, such as when a player chooses to play the body despite having an opportunity to play the puck instead (which in theory should mean calling off the icing), but then calls it as icing anyway.

 

[SomeDude]

The rule about having to get off the ice if your helmet comes off is one of the dumbest things any league has ever come up with for no reason.

It’s not like there was some epidemic of guys taking their helmets off for some competitive advantage.

I also don’t see how it can be a safety issue when the NHL is the only organization left in the civilized world who insists CTE is not related to head trauma.

 

[boredmale]

In older video games (e.g. Ice Hockey and Blades of Steel on the NES) only the loser of a fight would get a penalty. I struggle with watching both players go to the box after one gets destroyed by the other.

My favorite was Face Off!! for the PC 2 Minutes for losing the fight

Would make for an interesting rule, it means that having the toughest guy on the ice is a huge advantage

 

[JianYang]

I struggle mostly with video replay, particularly goalie interference and kickings.

I feel the consistency is just not there.

 

[JianYang]

My favorite was Face Off!! for the PC 2 Minutes for losing the fight

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Would make for an interesting rule, it means that having the toughest guy on the ice is a huge advantage

This literally looks and sounds like blades of steel on the nes.

 

[seafoam]

Icing.

 

[boredmale]

This literally looks and sounds like blades of steel on the nes.

Very similar but a few differences(such as playing a season, basic roster management stuff, you could develop plays)

 

[Leviathan]

I think everybody here understands hockey at this point, but that wasn't always the case.

What I want to know is what rule gave you the most trouble?

For me it was offside, offside took me a probably 3 years, I struggled with offside a long time

I still don't fully understand penalties. Who goes in the box when, offsetting minors, what happens if someone takes a penalty when they're already down 5-3, or a 6-4, etc.

 

[TD Charlie]

I still don’t know what a “distinct kicking motion” is.

 

[Mike C]

Not a rule, but when I started to play hockey when I was young and gullible, my older cousin said it was against the rules to hit him off the puck/ball. I played defense mostly. I had to learn how to play defense without playing the body for far too long, but I half-appreciate that because I had to learn how to use my stick and learn to block shots and anticipate plays happening.

I used to randomly smash my sister into the wall yelling "FOTiU" at the top of my lungs

 

[OkimLom]

I used to randomly smash my sister into the wall yelling "FOTiU" at the top of my lungs

Dont care if he’s Ranger Royalty, Not cool

 

[Mike C]

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Dont care if he’s Ranger Royalty, Not cool

Yeah but oh so funny

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

Why you can put your goalie back in on an icing.



I think waivers f***ed up a lot of people because EASucks. Shouldn't make a game couldn't get it right

 

[Summer Rose]

In older video games (e.g. Ice Hockey and Blades of Steel on the NES) only the loser of a fight would get a penalty. I struggle with watching both players go to the box after one gets destroyed by the other.

Reminds me of a game on Steam I bought once (but didn’t play much) called Super Blood Hockey. It had a similar “rule” where if you won a fight you got a “power play” in the form of the player who lost the fight being “knocked out” for a minute or so and just lying on the ice. I put everything in quotes because there weren’t actually many real rules in that game, as it wasn’t exactly a serious representation of hockey. There was a referee who skated around on the ice, but other than dropping the puck to start play, he served no purpose other than getting in the way, but you could knock him on his ass by hitting him out of the way.

 

[VaporTrail]

If a penalty (like tripping) is taken in the last two minutes of the 3rd by the team that's winning, it doesn't extend the period