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Originally Posted by GirlySports
Really? That's so weird that the blue line works both ways.
No other sports lines work like that.
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It's just a way to make the rules unnecessary complicated. Hockey is very good at that.
The rule would pretty obviously be better the way you said it. Not just because it would be simpler, but because it's easier to tell exactly when/if things (in this case the puck and the blueline) touch than when/if they stop touching. The first matters all the time in life, the latter not nearly as much, and thus our brains just work that way.
Our brains are also better at keeping track of things that are fixed than things that change with context. So the blueline being always a part of the same zone would again just be better. It's a really minor thing obviously, but it's still just silly.
As I've said many times, hockey rules are pointlessly complicated and generally written with no consideration to how easy it is to make calls.
(It would also visually be better if the blueline was a color with good contrast with the puck. So for example, not blue.)