no-touch icing in NHL - Yes or No?

[xbleed83bluex]

I vote yes. SO many advantages - one) having a player run down the ice to touch the puck eats up clock time, time that could be used for scoring opportunities. Two) 90% of the time the team who didn't ice the puck ends up touching it anyway. Three) Less players would get hurt trying to touch the puck.

Olympic hockey is how the game should be played. While we're at it, get rid of the trapezoid, too. If a goalie is an excellent puck-handler, he should be able to use that to his advantage.

[ambill10]

I'm on board with no touch icing. Good reasoning on the time aspect, I hadn't considered that side of it.

I also support getting rid of the trapezoid, it has always seemed very odd and arbitrary to me. I agree with the notion that an athletic goalie should be able to play the puck anywhere they'd like.

[Winning Unlimited]

Whats the problem with goalie trapezoids? We do have trapezoids that identify where Brad Boyes is allowed to shoot the puck. Sections 124 and 111.

[strocklen083]

No way in hell the NHL should go to no touch icing. In situations of big pressure in the Olympics we saw teams just dump it as quickly as possible to get the whistle. But as soon as the offensive team realized it was going the length of the ice they stopped skating for it. At least in the NHL when a team ices the puck the other team has to earn it by skating back to touch it. Sure it makes some dangerous situations at times. But overall I think it would just make players more lazy.

[Leedog]

How about the players pull their tampons out and throw it at the puck?

[The Flake]

Yeah...but then they would get thier man-juice all over the ice and when that freezes, it just makes for a nasty environment.

[Winning Unlimited]

Yeah...but then they would get thier man-juice all over the ice and when that freezes, it just makes for a nasty environment.

Oshie man juice would make the air quite moist from the teeny boppers, so maybe it helps the ice?

[-C-]

Go to no-touch icing but keep the rule about no line change for the team that iced it.

[fargoblues]

No to the no-touch ice.

[philco_3]

Yes to the no touch icing. Will put more time on the clock.

[Nyghtewynd]

I'd rather vote for no commercials during the period. Speeds up the game, makes it more exciting...what's not to love?

[philco_3]

I'd rather vote for no commercials during the period. Speeds up the game, makes it more exciting...what's not to love?

Now that was nice to have.

[ViPeRx007]

I'm undecided on no touch icing but the trapezoid should go away. Let goalies do what they want with the puck.

[ohio BLUES]

Lest we forget how gaytarded it was to see Dominik Hasek roam into the corner every time the puck had a chance of reaching him. I'm all for removing the trapezoid, but only if the goalies become fair game to mash into the boards for being idiots.

[DaDitka]

Lest we forget how gaytarded it was to see Dominik Hasek roam into the corner every time the puck had a chance of reaching him. I'm all for removing the trapezoid, but only if the goalies become fair game to mash into the boards for being idiots.

[not_a_wings_fan]

Lest we forget how gaytarded it was to see Dominik Hasek roam into the corner every time the puck had a chance of reaching him. I'm all for removing the trapezoid, but only if the goalies become fair game to mash into the boards for being idiots.

I think if you want to go out and play the puck you should be treated like any other skater. Get it tangled in your skates behind the net, ur fair game to get rocked like any D man. That would add some excitement, lol.

[Leedog]

Why is the goalie any more "vulnerable" than any other player. If anything, he has more equipment on. And a charge is a charge no matter the victims position.

[philco_3]

Lest we forget how gaytarded it was to see Dominik Hasek roam into the corner every time the puck had a chance of reaching him. I'm all for removing the trapezoid, but only if the goalies become fair game to mash into the boards for being idiots.

[theohall]

Lest we forget how gaytarded it was to see Dominik Hasek roam into the corner every time the puck had a chance of reaching him. I'm all for removing the trapezoid, but only if the goalies become fair game to mash into the boards for being idiots.

Patrick Roy did the same shit and was another reason the rule was created, so...

[xbleed83bluex]

I just feel like touch-icing is a waste of time because it seems like 90% of the time, the opposition team touches the puck first anyway. So you have 2 tired players and 10 seconds off the clock.

When did the NHL start touch-icing?