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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The reason that rule was changed to create those icings is to discourage the strategy of firing a pass to a guy who just tips it into the zone (if you miss the tip you're off for icing). Being able to just ice the puck by firing it in the general vicinity of one of your guys is not a good thing for flow. Makes the game more boring. What you want is to encourage controlled zone entries.
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I don't think it works, if that was the intent - it stops the game instead of keeping play going. Now, you are giving an icing for missing a pass. Anyway a tip into the zone is not much different than a dump in for a change, which is still allowed (and abused by players holding their stick out on the followthrough just to make the redline)