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The Three Main Rules
1. Offsides
A team is offsides when any member of the attacking team precedes the puck over the defending team's blue line. The position of a player's skates and not that of this stick is the determining factor. If both skates are over the blue line before the puck, the player is offside. If he has only one skate over the blue line and one on it, he is onside.
2. Icing the Puck
Icing the puck is not permitted when the teams are at equal numerical strength. Thus it is an infraction when a player on his team's side of the red center line shoots the puck all the way down the ice, it crosses the red goal line at any point other than the goal itself and is first touched by a defending player. When this occurs, play is stopped and the puck is returned to the other end of the ice for a face-off in the offending team's zone. Icing the puck is not called:
a. If the goalie plays the puck by leaving his net.
b. If the puck cuts across part of the goal crease.
c. When a defending opponent, in the judgment of the linesman, could have played the puck before it crossed the red goal line.
d. When an attacking player who was onside (in the same zone) when the puck was shot down the ice manages to touch it first.
e. When a team is playing short-handed because of a penalty or penalties.
3. Offside Pass
An offside pass occurs when a member of the attacking team passes the puck from behind his own blue line to teammate across the center red line. An attacking player may pass the puck over the center red line and the blue line to a teammate, as long as the teammate does not cross the blue line before the puck.
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