Talk:Offside (ice hockey)

Offside Pass

• Is this true? I didn't know you could get a "two line pass" call at all, in the new NHL rules. Sounds plausible though, for a pass that crosses both blue lines. But why would they bother with calling this infraction if the idea was to open the game up? If the receiver is actually offside when the puck crosses the second blue line then the referee will stop play. This simpler rule would do the most to "open up the game."

An offside pass is technically still an infraction if it crosses both blue lines. But an offside pass from inside your blue line to inside the opponent's blue line also means the receiving player would have to be offside on the play. Fortunately they just call the offside instead. It keeps it simpler. They should have just deleted the offside pass rule rather than modify it. It would have "netted" the same result.

• Where is the off-side pass or two-line passed even mentioned in the current rule book? – Pedantic79 ^(talk) 21:15, 28 April 2010 (UTC)

• Ten years later, and this page is still a mess. Consider this sentence: "The National Hockey League adopted the version used by the top minor leagues, under the terms of their 2005 Collective Bargaining Agreement, in which the centre line is no longer used to determine a two-line pass." If the center line is no longer used, then that means that nothing is used. (Because the article says, "An offside pass (or two-line pass) occurs when a pass from inside a team's defending zone crosses the red line," where "red line" of course means center line.) Is this sentence therefore trying to say that the NHL abolished the two-line pass? If so, it should simply say that. 74.71.64.241 (talk) 05:11, 6 September 2020 (UTC)

What is it for?

The article doesn't go into the actual intent of the offside rule.. If we didn't have the rule how would the game be different?--Hooperbloob 00:12, 7 September 2007 (UTC)

If the attacking player did not cross the attacking blue line before the puck, then touches the puck that was passed from a teammate behind the defensive blue line, a two line pass can be called without an offside offense on the same play. However, this almost never happens, and I imagine the linesmen forget the rule. Kerri Ace (talk) 08:53, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

Typo?

"Both of his skates must be completely on the far side of the red line when the puck crosses the red line into the attacking zone is governed by the aforementioned offside rule."

This sentence doesn't make any sense to me, there seems to be some a word missing or something. What is the subejct of "is governed by (...)"? Chjoodge (talk) 13:47, 10 May 2008 (UTC)

Typo 2?

The Hockey Rink image showing the zones has the text "Storekeeper's Bench", shouldn't that be "Scorekeeper's"? Cedal (talk) 17:03, 25 Feb 2019 (CET) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.170.245.105 (talk)