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Originally Posted by GioforPM
I confess to being a little frustrated with the linesmen's generosity about icings (both in interpreting a pass that hops over a stick or between legs but isn't received well as an icing or in giving the defenceman skating back the benefit of the doubt).
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I've patiently waited for years for a simple change to the icing rules that to me seems obvious.
It's no longer icing if you fire the puck the distance from the neutral zone, only from within your own zone behind the blueline.
What teams are under pressure in the neutral zone that requires them to ice the puck to relieve said pressure?
Make that change and you get less hopping over stick icing calls, the game speeds up a bit, and you get an interesting opportunity to forecheck on the fly with speed.