09-30-2013, 03:38 PM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
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NHLPA approves hybrid icing for regular season
Dan Rosen @drosennhl 2m Bill Daly says on NHL Live that hybrid icing has been approved by the NHLPA. It will be implemented this season, starting tomorrow night.
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09-30-2013, 03:38 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Great call.
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09-30-2013, 04:00 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Common sense actually prevails?!?!?!?!
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09-30-2013, 04:02 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Abbotsford, BC
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Good. I got a chance to watch the hybrid icing in the AHL for half of last season and it prevented injuries. I'm glad they implemented it.
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09-30-2013, 04:04 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: California
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Still think hybrid icing is stupid. It eliminates touch icing on all of the plays that wouldn't result in injury and leaves the tight foot races that are likely to result in people crashing into the boards
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09-30-2013, 04:07 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Calgary, AB
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Should have just went full no-touch, hopefully this is the first step towards that.
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09-30-2013, 04:27 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Should have just went full no-touch, hopefully this is the first step towards that.
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Agreed on both counts.
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09-30-2013, 05:28 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Seattle, WA/Scottsdale, AZ
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This seems like a 'half-pregnant' solution. I will freely declare that I much prefer touch icing.
I would have like to seen them treat it like leaving the bench to fight. Hurt someone on an icing play, by hitting or tripping them and you get 10 games. If it doesn't work go to hybrid/automatic.
I know that not all players have been hurt from hits on icing plays, Pitkanen wasn't hit when he got hurt. Guys have also been hurt by being hit into the net and they haven't changed the construction.
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09-30-2013, 05:33 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Thunder Bay Ontario
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09-30-2013, 07:18 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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I agree that this could (and probably should) lead to just no touch icing.
I agree with the move, won't miss touch icing
Sure it adds a bit more to the refs, but they'll be able to do it, it's not like these are that tough to call with 4 refs on the ice.
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09-30-2013, 07:19 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DoubleK
I know that not all players have been hurt from hits on icing plays, Pitkanen wasn't hit when he got hurt. Guys have also been hurt by being hit into the net and they haven't changed the construction.
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name guys hurt by the net vs guys who were injured by icing plays, I'm sure you'll find a vast difference in the length of those lists.
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09-30-2013, 08:33 PM
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Franchise Player
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$&@)!!!! I wish I would have knew about this rule before I submitted my team for my hockey pool.
Would have build the team differently......
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09-30-2013, 08:48 PM
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Nov 2009
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I don't see the big issue.
The way I see it, if the "icer" has an obvious opportunity to get to the puck first, he should be given that opportunity, I assume this will likely eliminate the chaser from behind which tends to reach around or through the legs of the defenseman. We will see how that pans out. Also, it eliminates those repeating icing calls when a team is trying to catch their breath. It shaves off a few valuable seconds and brings its back quicker. I have no beef.
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09-30-2013, 08:54 PM
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Franchise Player
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Smartest rule change by the NHL in a long time.
A lot better than no touch or previous rule.
Last edited by timbit; 09-30-2013 at 08:57 PM.
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10-01-2013, 08:34 AM
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In the Sin Bin
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It's a half-measure, but a half-measure more than the union usually considers when it comes to player safety. There really is no reason not to go to no-touch icing, but this is certainly an improvement on the status quo.
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10-01-2013, 08:51 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: A small painted room
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Don Cherry is going to be happy and mad at the same time! Great call, just hope there aren't those moments of confusion which I've seen from time to time with hybrid icing.
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10-01-2013, 11:23 AM
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First Line Centre
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I don't really see this changing the injuries too much. As already stated this doesn't impact the dangerous tight footrace situation that can result in a player crashing into the boards awkwardly at full speed. I guess it is a slight improvement. The best injury prevention change would be full no-touch icing.
Does this impact the Sedin play where they ice the puck as a stretch pass? I guess if the other Sedin is cherry picking and thus the closest player to the iced puck that they will not blow it down?
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10-01-2013, 11:28 AM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: in your blind spot.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DoubleK
I know that not all players have been hurt from hits on icing plays, Pitkanen wasn't hit when he got hurt. Guys have also been hurt by being hit into the net and they haven't changed the construction.
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No, but they changed from tall metal posts embedded into the ice to magnets ("Meg-nets") to the current loose plastic posts.
As for the nets themselves, they used to have a vicious pointy sheet metal part at the bottom middle (look up Mark Howe to see why that changed).
So yeah, they have changed the net to try to limit injury.
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10-01-2013, 01:15 PM
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Our Jessica Fletcher
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So what happens if the offensive player reaches the faceoff dots 1 ft earlier than the defensive player? Play resumes?
So now instead of Pitkanen and Foster breaking their legs, it will be Skinner and Koivu?
I don't understand how this rules helps the issue.
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10-01-2013, 01:31 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Seattle, WA/Scottsdale, AZ
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobblehead
As for the nets themselves, they used to have a vicious pointy sheet metal part at the bottom middle (look up Mark Howe to see why that changed).
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He was impaled by the spike that held the net in place not the back middle.
I was referring to the diameter and thickness of the net frame itself.
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