Confrontation (faceoff) in the center of the arena
Near each goal are marked two circles with a diameter of 4.5 meters (in the NHL the diameter is 15 feet - about 4.57 meters) with a point marked in the center of each of them. A similar circle is drawn in the center of the field. Also, two points are drawn near each of the blue lines, in the neutral zone. These nine markings are used for
Offside
When a player crosses the blue line with both feet into his team's offensive zone before the puck crosses him. This condition will only be whistled if one of the players on his team touches the puck inside that zone. To get out of a layoff, offensive players must exit the offensive zone (that is, slide back across the blue line into the neutral zone), and are allowed to re-enter it only after putting the puck into it.
The game will resume in the confrontation at one of the designated points in the neutral zone.
Icing
When a player or goalie hits the puck from his own half of the court behind the opponent's goal line (but outside the goal itself) without another player touching it in its path. In principle, it is also required that the opposing team's skater be the first to reach the puck afterwards, but the lineman closest to the occurrence can rule on icing immediately even before that if he believes that a player of the opposing team will reach the puck first - and this is in order to reduce the possibility of a race to the puck between players opponents, which may put them at risk of injury (the option for the linesman's discretion is called "Hybrid Icing"). While in the NHL it is still possible in some cases to race between opposing players in order to reach the puck first, in international hockey such races are not tolerated, for reasons of increased safety for the players. If such a race develops, the linesman will immediately whistle for the icing and stop the race.
After an icing violation has been determined, the game will resume with a faceoff in one of the faceoff circles closest to the goal of the team that committed the violation - a great advantage for the other team, because if it wins the faceoff, then the puck and all its players are already in the attack zone, and they can immediately attack the goal without fearing a situation of separation. In addition, a team that has performed icing cannot replace its players on the ice when the game is stopped, and has to wait for the next stoppage - a rule that also gives the opposing team a potential advantage of fresher players on the ice.
Icing will not whistle against a team that is outnumbered on the ice due to a foul they committed. The rationale behind this rule is that the main goal of a team that is at a numerical disadvantage is to pass the penalty time without conceding a goal, and its ability to develop attacking play is limited.
penalty kick
The defender of the team that is in the same move in defense commits a foul on an opposing player, who reached the scoring position alone in front of the goalkeeper. This offense, in a
A penalty shot is stopped in different cases in the game. The most common case is a foul on a player who arrived in an explosive attack alone in front of the opposing goalkeeper. A free kick is executed by the executing player leading the puck from the center of the arena to the opponent's goal alone in front of the goalie, at the end of the move he has one attempt to score a goal.
Also, in international ice hockey and in the regular season of the NHL and other North American leagues, in the event that a game is not decided even after overtime, a penalty shootout is held to decide it. In the NHL each team is given three penalty shots, in international ice hockey each team is given five penalty shots. If there is still no tie, the penalty shootout continues alternately until one team scores and the other misses.
The penalty shootout does not take place in
Coach's Challenge
In some cases, it is possible for the coach to challenge a decision of the on-ice referees and demand a video review. There are two cases in which a coach can appeal the decision of the referees: if a goal against his team has been confirmed when, in the coach's opinion, the move that led to the goal started from a different situation that was not whistled, from an illegal pass with the hand or by lifting a stick above shoulder height, from hitting the puck on the defensive net behind the goal (which was should stop the game) or that, in the opinion of the coach, illegal interference with the goalkeeper was involved in the goal. The second situation is if a goal of his team is disallowed and in his opinion the goal is legal, due to those cases, which in his opinion were whistled unjustly. Other cases cannot be appealed to a coach - for example, cases in which there is a dispute as to whether the puck crossed the goal line cannot be appealed to a coach, but only to an initiative check by the video referees.
If the appeal fails and it turns out that the judges were right, or the video footage is not conclusive enough to contradict their original decision, the original decision remains, and the coach's team that failed to appeal the judges' decision will receive a minor penalty - that is, it will play at a numerical disadvantage for 2 minutes or until its opponent scores a goal.
The possibility of appealing a coach was copied from the NHL, for cases of deviation or interference with the goaltender, to the major international ice hockey tournaments starting with
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