> There were no blue lines only a red line?
 
I must be having a really bad morning, because
that still isn't what I meant. Here goes again:
 
For purposes of normal, boring, off-sides (player
crosses into offensive zone before the puck), there
was no change. You still must be on-sides to
continue the play, and you always had to be.
 
However, assuming you ARE on-sides, you can
still be called for a two line pass. In the pros, the
red line counts as a line; in college, the red line
does not count, but you can still be nailed for a
two line pass by going behind your blue line to
ahead of your opponents'. At least, I think you
can. Some posts seems to suggest that this is
perfectly legal, and I begin to doubt that I've ever
seen it called, except by Gallagher, which as all
ECAC fans knows, means nothing.
 
Icing is yet another issue, and the post about the
change in icing rules (moving the icing line up
from the blue to the red) makes me begin to
believe that this is the rule change that the person
from whom my original information came
was remembering, and it got garbled somewhere
between him and me.
 
We now return to our regularly scheduled game
of "telephone".
 
Greg
Cambridge
Let's Go Red!