old icing rule to be abolished?

[Fitzpatrick'sbeard]

BOCA RATON, Fla. (AP)—NHL general managers moved a step closer to changing the league’s icing rule in an effort to make the game safer.

After the second day of their three-day meetings, the GMs on Tuesday said they were united in a rule being called hybrid icing.

NHL rules currently allow players to chase the puck to the end boards, which can create full-speed races in an effort to get to the puck first. Under hybrid icing, the race for the puck would end at the faceoff dots, allowing players to battle for possession more safely at 30 feet away from the boards instead of 3 feet away.

Hybrid icing has been discussed for six years, but this will be the first time the GMs will bring it to the competition committee and seek the Board of Governors approval to put it in place.

http://sports.yahoo.com/nhl/news?slug=ap-gmsmeeting

[Mski]

i say leave it at the goal line, and take the red line out of the game all together

[mightysimi]

i say leave it at the goal line, and take the red line out of the game all together

What do you mean? The red line is only really there for icing. Surely you can't mean to do away with icing?

[Mski]

What do you mean? The red line is only really there for icing. Surely you can't mean to do away with icing?

no what i mean is move the icing line to your own blue line.... it will stop alot of the "oops i missed the pass now i have to race someone to the end"

[G Wolly]

no-touch icing is the better way to go.

if it gets fired down the ice, makes sense to blow the play dead and set-up for the next face-off.

[Mski]

im not a fan of the hybrid icing rules.. but i still think they're better than the international rules

[G Wolly]

or. irrational solution.

players could let up a little bit when going hard for the puck. I know it's easier to judge and suggest when you aren't playing, but say they just accept the icing and remove the risk of injury to themself or the other.