(BTW, I also like the Minnesota Wild.)
Recently, defenseman Kurtis Foster broke his leg getting pushed from behind in a race to prevent an icing call. In hockey, if a puck travels across two red lines, it is considered iced; play stops and the puck is brought back down the ice for a faceoff in the offending team’s goal. Read more here.
In college hockey, the puck is considered iced when it crosses the second red line (the goal line.) In the NHL, however, the puck must be touched by the defending team to be called, so if a player from an offending team touches it first, the icing is called off. This is what Foster was attempting to do when he broke his leg.
This has led to calls (not the first time) that the NHL institute no-touch icing, with the icing call being made as the puck crosses the red line. Hockey traditionalists like the battle to the puck, but reformers point out that it can lead to injuries and preventing the icing call hardly ever affects a play. I would like to see no-touch icing implemented.
There is a Facebook group set up in support of this. Click here.
