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icing ((2))
DCHP-2 (Jul 2016)
n. & adj. — Hockey
the infraction committed when a player "ices" the puck, which causes the play to be stopped and the puck brought back to the offending team's end.
Type: 5. Frequency — The concept of icing uses the idea of reverting those parts of the action that happened after a rule violation. A similar process is applied in the use of verbal exclamation "Freeze!" to stop an action in informal North American English. Icing is a semantic change relating to the general properties of ice. As Chart 1 shows, the concept is most frequntly used in Canada (here with the example of icing call).
Quotations
1937
The new N.H.L. rule which prevents a team icing the puck when it is at full strength makes the power play much more effective this season.
1938
The referee will issue the rough-play penalties and decide any goal disputes; the linesman's job will be to call the offsides and icing of the puck.
1943
Frankie has one more rule change to suggest - he would abolish icing the puck. He thinks if you eliminated the rule against icing the puck that players of both teams would make a real effort to reach the rubber first.
1958
Icing violations do not mean too much to the sprites as yet as they don't have the strength to fire the puck all the way down. . . .
1965
With that gesture, he automatically nullified the prospective "icing" call.
1978
You come in the dressing room and you haven't scored a goal, you haven't stopped a goal and you haven't even prevented an icing.
1998
Unfortunately, the red line is still being used for icing calls in the CIAU. It should follow the lead of the old World Hockey Association and scrap the red line altogether, so that the only way a player can ice the puck is from within his or her own blueline. That would help eliminate more of those annoying whistle stops which interrupt the flow of the game.
2000
They have salted it with affectionate nods to personalities like in-your-face broadcaster Don Cherry and Stompin' Tom Connors whose Hockey Song gets fans clapping from junior rinks to the pros.
But it's also written for those who think icing is something on a cake.
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