NHL Hockey For Dummies (New Fans) FAQ Thread

[Capt. Serious]

All you need to know, is Garty Bettman sucks.

 

[southern_cross_116]

If you hit a player in stride after taking more than 3 strides normally you're called for charging. You can however take as many strides as you want and glide into a player, which is what happens most of the time because players are constantly moving. So if you hit a player while striding into them it cannot be more than 3 strides unless you stop skating and glide into them.

It is a very grey area as far as rules go, in fact the 3 strides rule is not even written into the NHL rules because some player can lay violent hits with intent to injure someone without 3 strides, it is more the unwritten law of hockey.

Exactly right. Basically it gets called for guys that sprint from one side of the ice to the other to just nail someone (usually width wise- not length wise --- too much territory to cover to predict where the puck would be when you get there).

All you need to know, is Garty Bettman sucks.

An extremely important point - but not 'all' you need to know - but it is probably the starting point for any consideration on the business basis of the modern NHL.