public is fine! first of all, mazel tov on the ep, it's excellent. i am here with a hockey question (im a baby hockey fan, chose to support the devils, this season, a choice which i do not regret in the slightest dammit). i actually understand what icing is, but what i don't get is how sometimes ken daneyko (when he's not being vocally upset that the players aren't beating the shit out of each other more often) will say that the icing call was "waved off". why does that happen? when? thank you!
oh sweet little bluebonnet, you chose the devils? on purpose??
so there are a couple of reasons why this can happen. basically, with the icing rules, there is a period of time when it is possible that icing is going to be called -- essentially, during the race for the puck. the ref might like, hold an arm up to kind of indicate that he’s extremely ready and excited to call icing.Â
if a player of the team who did the icing (ie the team that sent the puck), is the first to touch it/first to reach the faceoff dots, it could be waved off, or if the linesman is just like, meh, that was a pass and the person just whiffed it, or i THINK if the linesman is like ... ok very obviously that puck could have been caught by the other team and they chose not to in order to get an icing call, they’re allowed to wave it off. that last one might not be true. it might just be something that i think they should be allowed to do.