Kurtis Foster Fractures Femur

[skatingtripods]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRwAyABEVBE[/youtube]

Another horrific injury in a hockey game. Touch icing directly attributed to it, creating yet another discussion on if no touch icing should be implemented.

Playing in rec leagues, there's no touch icing. I can't say I would be in favor of it in the NHL, despite injuries like this one and the one to Marco Sturm two years ago.

[buckeyehoppy]

Touch icing is dangerous and redundant.

That you have to touch up to ice the puck actually rewards the team icing it. Many times, the defending team is clearing it w/o much real regard, so why should the attacking line have to touch up when the blue line clears out of desperation? This doesn't happen every time, but more often than it should.

[Funky Cold Luis Medina]

I hate no-touch icing. If they want to change it, they should do what USA Hockey has started at their junior levels and have a modified no-touch icing.

If it's obvious that the touch-up would happen, just whistle it. Basically, it goes by whoever is closest to the puck. If it's the attacking team, wave it off. If it's the defenseman, whistle it. If it's going to be a race right to the puck, whistle it in the interest of safety.

I don't like it, but in the interest of safety, I wouldn't be surprised to see the NHL try it out in the minors or in the preseason. And it's better than a rigid no-touch.

[skatingtripods]

Touch icing is dangerous and redundant.

That you have to touch up to ice the puck actually rewards the team icing it. Many times, the defending team is clearing it w/o much real regard, so why should the attacking line have to touch up when the blue line clears out of desperation? This doesn't happen every time, but more often than it should.

One of the new provisions of the CBA in terms of rules and regulations is that the team that iced the puck cannot perform a line change. That's one of the new rules that I like the most.


If they want to implement no touch icing, I would move the icing line back to the far blue line and have the rule written as the puck crossing over four lines instead of three. I want to take as much of the referee's discretion out of it as possible.

[buckeyehoppy]

Touch icing is dangerous and redundant.

That you have to touch up to ice the puck actually rewards the team icing it. Many times, the defending team is clearing it w/o much real regard, so why should the attacking line have to touch up when the blue line clears out of desperation? This doesn't happen every time, but more often than it should.

One of the new provisions of the CBA in terms of rules and regulations is that the team that iced the puck cannot perform a line change. That's one of the new rules that I like the most.


If they want to implement no touch icing, I would move the icing line back to the far blue line and have the rule written as the puck crossing over four lines instead of three. I want to take as much of the referee's discretion out of it as possible.

The line change provision seems fair enough. Why reward the team icing the puck with a line change with a stoppage in play? Take away the line change until they can control the puck and cross center ice.

Seems a bit harsh, but it would also make teams think twice before carelessly stalling the game by clearing the puck the length of the river.

[skatingtripods]

The line change provision seems fair enough. Why reward the team icing the puck with a line change with a stoppage in play? Take away the line change until they can control the puck and cross center ice.

Seems a bit harsh, but it would also make teams think twice before carelessly stalling the game by clearing the puck the length of the river.

I really like the line change provision. It forces teams to actually control the puck long enough to reward them with a line change.

That, along with the immediate delay of game penalty for a puck that goes directly over the glass in the end zones without touching anything first. Those were two long overdue rules.