#hockey rules

[localcryptidinspo]

Hello ppl who care about PWHL and hockey

Do you have book recs for rules/history that aren't just a rulebook and are friendly to people who don't have a ton of background? Will also accept video essay or podcasts. I just started watching PWHL recently and am loving it but am realizing there are lots of weird rules I don't know! Also some people have brought up fun trivia/history that is neat!

Anything is appreciated 🫡

-a person who grew up with extended family watching hockey but never kept up with it myself but pwhl is so much fun!

[sunshine-gumdrop]

Hockey players often "pair up" during fights to keep the situation somewhat controlled. When a fight breaks out, players on each team tend to find an "opponent" to pair with. This pairing serves a few purposes:

1. **Limit Escalation:** By pairing up, each player has someone to focus on, which helps prevent a full-on brawl where multiple players are fighting chaotically. It creates a more controlled environment, where only specific pairs are involved in physical conflict.

2. **Protection for Teammates:** Hockey players often feel a duty to protect their teammates, especially if the other team is targeting a star player. Pairing off ensures that each player has someone watching out for them, making it harder for one team to gang up on a single player.

3. **Officials’ Control:** When players are paired, it’s easier for referees and linesmen to monitor the situation and break up the fights more effectively, rather than trying to manage multiple uncoordinated conflicts.

Pairing up is essentially an unspoken code in hockey, helping players maintain a semblance of order during chaotic moments.

[wehaveagathering]

A brief conversation with a hockey referee.

Me: When is the icing whistle supposed to blow?

Ref: When the puck crosses the goal line and the defending team player touches it.

Ref: Sometimes a linesman will blow it before the players get there to prevent a fight inducing hit if the defender is slightly ahead.

Ref: These are hybrid icing rules, which most teams play by.

Me: So as soon as it crosses the goal line, essentially?

Ref: No. That would be automatic icing. The defending player must touch the puck (or imminently). If a forward beats the defender to the puck, the icing is waved off.

Ref: In automatic icing, the whistle blows the second the puck crosses the line.

Ref: If the goalie leaves the crease to play the puck, icing is called off.

[hockeymarriage]

Zadorov got called and fined for unsportsmanlike behavior, even though technically he was spearing, which is a five minute major with contact; and Geno got called and fined for slashing, even though it looks like he could have been head contact. spearing is punished more heavily because of its high risk of injury, I'm guessing, but poking someone in the butt with your stick while you are both stationary is not that dangerous. so I'm guessing that's why he got unsportsmanlike conduct instead, which is more like the vibe of the law than the letter.

it was hard to tell from the camera angle exactly how reckless Geno's blind slashing was. it looked bad to me but I don't have much of an ability to read the amount of force on a hockey stick. I wonder if the refs wanted to make a call that would keep the game from descending into a brawl by clearly favoring one team over the other? refs are so mysterious.

saw some comments along the line of "it's unfair to use video review to call a penalty the refs didn't see live, you can't retroactively call a penalty." which. I do see how you wouldn't want to create a game where challenges got out of hand. you kind of want to get away with a teeny bit of rule breaking. but if the refs are looking at the video already to accurately call Geno, and they see another penalty, that seems fair enough to me. not really going anywhere with this, just musing about ref and game rules philosophy.

also—got could you imagine getting speared as part of a high speed collision? you could get so fucking injured. I'm glad I've never seen that.

[sutton-ho]

As @eightfourone pointed out, goalies are not allowed to be captain under NHL rules (part of rule 6.1 says "No playing Coach or playing Manager or goalkeeper shall be permitted to act as Captain or Alternate Captain."). This is because the official role of captain has nothing to do with leadership, it just designates the player that speaks for their team to the officials. You'll see them at centre ice between games getting the refs to clarify why they made a call, or relaying messages to their bench from the refs (Often when a specific kind of penalty that is coming up too much in the game the refs will ask the benches to pay more attention and cut it out). As such, picking the person who has to slowly lumber to centre ice in all that goalie gear slows the game considerably.

The role has taken on all sorts of other baggage related to team leadership and has become a go-to for teams who can't figure out how to actually fix their problems. Just fire the coach and replace the captain and hey! You did things! It can't be the front office's fault anymore.

These charts do a GREAT job of showing the statistical bias towards the captain being the most skilled player instead. Fan bases and media invent all kinds of narratives about how it would be a snub otherwise.

To bring this back to goalies, this all led to a truly surreal situation back in the day where Roberto Lunogo (who else) was the captain without being the captain in any way:

On September 30, 2008, prior to the start of the 2008–09 season, Vancouver Canucks general manager Mike Gillis and head coach Alain Vigneault named Luongo the 12th captain in team history, replacing the departed Markus Näslund.[5] The decision was unconventional, as league rules forbid goaltenders from being captains.[79] As such, Luongo became only the seventh goaltender in NHL history to be named a captain, and the first since Bill Durnan captained the Montreal Canadiens in 1947–48 (after which the league implemented the rule).[5] In order to account for the league rule, Luongo did not perform any of the on-ice duties reserved for captains and did not wear the captain's "C" on his jersey. Instead he incorporated it into the artwork on the front of one of his masks which he occasionally wore for the early months of the 2008–09 season.[80] Canucks defenceman Willie Mitchell was designated to handle communications with on-ice officials, while defenceman Mattias Öhlund was responsible for ceremonial faceoffs and other such formalities associated with captaincy.[5] Centre Ryan Kesler was chosen along with Mitchell and Öhlund as the third alternate captain.[5]

↳ THE CAPTAINS OF THE NHL: BY THE NUMBERS

[alshaverpressbox]

on a certain level. for me. being a fan of an nhl team is not about being a fan of good hockey. it's about, fundamentally, being deeply obsessed with a specific group of coworkers in a hockey themed work environment

[hotchipsauce]

The latest willmack fic posted today is almost word for word plagiarism of one of the most popular 1634 fic. Since there’s no way to really report or call it out since the author is anon, please don’t give it any attention.

I don’t want to post too much of the actual fic but it gets really obvious real quick.

[zetterbabe]

🗣️🗣️🗣️ (02.17.24)

[reavenedges-lies]

Also note about the NHL Pride Tape debacle: The NHL Is Going Against It's Own Rulebook

[yes-perwallstedt]

What’s stopping hockey players from hiding spare pucks in their breezers and releasing them at strategic points throughout the game to cause chaos?

[pagan-stitches]

[obsessorofthings]

the 1634 media attention lately has been absolutely INSANE. they’re saying the craziest shit???? at this point i genuinely would not be surprised if i heard a hockey announcer call auston and mitch soulmates on live television????

[mekachu04]

I hope it's okay I got really excited about you liking OP (especially the goat, our Captain) AND hockey so I had to follow back.

I'm so excited to go through your Kid pirates prompts. 😊

I'm always happy to make new friends, especially of the Kidd and Hockey kind =^.^=

I hope you enjoy what you find

[panlight]

Purpose of the baseball poll is that growing up in the USA I kind of just assumed everyone knew how baseball was played by cultural osmosis. Maybe you didn't watch games on TV or actively play in a league, but that you've played with friends in someone's backyard or in gym class or watched movies like Field of Dreams or The Sandlot or whatever. That baseball is just. . . in the air here.

But I grew up in a middle class residential neighborhood with a backyard and brothers and parents who DID enjoy watching baseball (even if I never cared myself) and one brother who played in little league so I was like, maybe my experiences are not universal even in the USA and I know more about baseball than average.

I couldn't be the umpire in a serious game but if a vampire boyfriend brought me to meet his family and I was asked to call the balls and strikes, yeah I could do it. I'd hate being put on the spot and would be a nervous wreck about it, but I understand the game enough that I could functionally do it without ever having a personal interest in baseball. Just absorbed the knowledge from the ether.

[goldenseresinretriever]

It’s been a busy busy day after going out of town this weekend so honestly I’m running behind on absolutely everything but I’d be remiss if I didn’t acknowledge this, so even if it’s not this grand thing I had envisioned, I want to thank every single person that’s every interacted with the SDDU, over the past year.

Today marks one year since I first posted the moodboards for the concept that was the San Diego Dogfighters. I was excited for the upcoming hockey season and just wanted to express that in tandem with the TGM fandom and posted those moodboards as a concept series, with no plans to turn them into a fic or even a series. I couldn’t have foreseen what an insane effect it would have on my life. I hadn’t written fanfiction in years let alone posted any, but people asked if the SDDU would be a fic and I decided to give it a try. Inspired by @sailor-aviator ‘s writing journey and genuine joy for writing, I started writing and posting Snitches Get Stitches a few days later and the rest is history.

Earlier this year I’d given up on continuing the series publicly and left the site, but the love of my friends and support for the series brought me back. When I returned I didn’t expect people to come back or even care that I was back and yet I experienced such an overwhelming wave of love and support and thanks to all of you, I can continue to do what I love most, sharing stories with you. It’s been such an insane journey and one that I’ll never stop being thankful for.

Thank you to my loyal readers and friends who have been with me every step of the way, through all the bumps in the road. Thank you to the people who just picked up the series and those who have been here since day 1. Thank you for making the SDDU what it’s become!

This week I want to take the time and celebrate this universe that means so much to me, and to plenty of you! I have a special surprise planned for the anniversary of the fics themselves, on October 9! I also want to host a SDD Press Conference this week to celebrate and I’ll make a more detailed post about that tomorrow but feel free to start sending in questions for the characters and/or me if you’ve participated before and know the gist!

I want to finish this post by adding in the moodboards that started it all, since they’re no longer on here since I deleted my old blog. 💚💛🩶 I love you all and thank you so much for everything!

[huggythecanuck]

okay im not gonna get on here and actually voice all the petty things i said during the game about mcdavid because a lot of them were rude and unnecessary, because i want the canucks to win. what i am gonna say is mcdavid deserves every day of the suspension that he gets. so does tymy. i think mcdavid deserves at least two more games than whatever tyler gets because he instigated a fight because he was mad that he had been kinda shut down all game. say what you want about mcdavid, but it’s about damn time he got some consequences for his actions. yes the league needs to protect him because he’s fucking incredible. but that doesn’t mean he gets to throw hissy fits every time something doesn’t go his way!