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..
With summer entering its waning months, one thing is certain: The Boston Bruins are probably still hungover. What’s more is that a new season is inching ever closer and that means it’s prediction time! For the sake of hockey withdrawal, Intent to Blow has compiled a two part series: a list of ten things that will [...]
The war of words between the Los Angeles Kings and Edmonton Oilers got taken up a notch Monday, after Oilers GM Steve Tambellini blasted his L.A. trade partners for giving them an elderly, overpaid man instead of Ryan Smyth. “I know Ryan Smyth. He played here for years and was incredibly popular,” Tambellini said. “You [...]
Hockey’s back, and that means today is a good day. No more pretending baseball is really that interesting. No more trying to put up with football fanatics. No more feigning interest in how big a douche Lebron James is. Just back to the good stuff. But before the puck finally drops for the 2010-2011 season, [...]
The Calgary Flames and the Edmonton Oilers finished a pre-season Sunday that will be greater than anything either team has done, or will do for the next five years, team officials admitted Monday. The two Canadian teams finished the pre-season a combined 10-1, a mark neither could possibly hope to match in the regular season, [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama announced that he is seriously considering putting an end to the month of September after a petition signed by 47,934 hockey fans threatened mass suicide if the NHL regular season didn’t begin later this week. “President Obama has been apprised of a serious situation threatening the lives of countless Americans and Canadians, who [...]
A visibly devastated Nikolai Khabibulin was sentenced to spend three years in Edmonton Tuesday after being convicted of extreme DUI in Arizona earlier this week. Khabibulin, who was caught driving his ferrari at twice the legal limit or performing a drunken rocket skate jump over the Grand Canyon, depending on who you ask, jumped out [...]
With the NHL Draft fast approaching, this year’s consensus top two draft picks shocked the hockey world today by each declaring they were not only willing, but eager to potentially start their careers in Edmonton. The Edmonton Oilers own the top slot in this year’s draft and have spent years fashioning themselves as the most [...]
Embattled Edmonton Oilers’ goaltender Nikolai Khabibulin is in more hot water in Arizona where he is now facing an “Extreme DUI” charge for allegedly using rocketskates to jump across the Grand Canyon while “at least 10 fingers of vodka deep” authorities announced Tuesday. Tuesday’s arrest marks the second time Khabibulin has been arrested in Arizona in [...]
The province of Alberta has become a frozen wasteland of suicidal hockey fans. According to a report released by the Alberta Provincial Police, the number of suicides in the province has quadrupled since the puck dropped on the 2009-2010 NHL season. Local authorities have pinned the blame on the Edmonton Oilers and Calgary Flames for [...]
With just one win between the two teams in 2010 thus far and next to no hope of a postseason berth, the Edmonton Oilers and New Jersey Nets have been discussing switching leagues for the remainder of their respective regular seasons. “Tell me what you’d rather see,” said former Oilers GM Kevin Lowe, watching defenseman [...]