Rule 32.2 As there is a human factor involved in blowing the whistle to stop play, the Referee may deem the play to be stopped slightly prior to..
..the whistle actually being blown. The fact that the puck may come loose or cross the goal line prior to the sound of the whistle has no bearing..
Looking for something to watch after the Stanley Cup playoffs ended last week, thousands of hockey fans across North America have been stricken with World Cup fever and are feared to be bored to death after just days of watching the phenomenally low-scoring game of soccer. “This could be a disaster of epic proportions,” said [...]
NHL players voted unanimously Saturday night to dub the NBA’s Lebron James a “tea-drinking girlie man” in the wake of his much-ballyhooed elbow injury that may or may not be slowing down the Cavaliers superstar. The resolution, adopted at a hastily-called together meeting of the toughest NHL players early Saturday, urges James to “get over [...]
The parents of a young boy who appears in the NHL Network’s “Hockey Is For Everyone” commercial filed a lawsuit against New York Islanders goaltender Rick DiPietro yesterday, claiming emotional stressed suffered by their son when DiPietro picked him up and bolted to a local Wendy’s, screaming like the Mad Hatter with the boy in [...]