Question

In junior hockey, The puck/play is deep in the white team's end zone. A white team player shoots a hard shot down the ice. The

back linesman signals a potential icing situation. The front linesman pursues the puck as it crosses the blue team's
blue line towards the goal line. The puck crosses the goal line and deflects off the end wall and angles towards
the crease. The blue team's goalkeeper, at that end, has dropped to their knees to protect the post that the puck
is heading towards. The nearest players (defending or attacking) are just crossing the blue line when the blue
team's goalkeeper freezes the puck in their crease because the puck has traveled into their crease and they see
an attacking player converging on them. Is this icing under the hybrid icing rule?

Answer 1

Icing is not called in the described situation because the blue team's goalkeeper played the puck before any player reached the face-off dot, which is in accordance with the hybrid icing rule.

Step-by-step explanation:

The scenario described involves the hybrid icing rule in hockey. Under this rule, icing is called if the player on the opposing team (relative to the team that shot the puck) reaches the face-off dot first after the puck crosses the opposing team's goal line. However, if the goaltender plays the puck before this happens, then icing is typically waved off. In the situation you've described, the blue team's goalkeeper froze the puck in their crease. Thus, this action would negate the icing since the goalkeeper played the puck before any player reached the face-off dot.

Icing is not called in this scenario because once the goalkeeper plays the puck, the play is considered dead, and the anticipated race to the puck is no longer relevant. Hybrid icing is intended to promote safety by preventing unnecessary collisions during these icing races, and the goalkeeper's intervention is considered a valid reason to stop play and wave off icing.