ROSS writes:
> now, i don't have a napoleanically strategic mind, so maybe i just can't see
> it, but what would a player have to gain by deliberately dumping the puck for
> an offsides? Is it just to get a stoppage of play, or something? please clue
> me in here.
Intentional offsides, BEFORE the offsides tag up rule was instituted, was to
insure that teams would not intentionally dump the puck into the zone, usually
to get a stoppage of play and get a faceoff in the neutral zone, as opposed to
your own end via icing. This is particularly good in getting line change with
out losing ground (ice.) When the tag-up rule was instituted, teams could now
dump the puck in and change, even if a man was offsides (maybe on his way out)
I believe that this did NOT change the intentional offsides rule as written,
yet it does seem to be called more now. It is a rule which, IMO, should be
reviewed as to its purpose and wording and emphasis.
-Ryan Stone
Lawrence University (Appleton, WI) '93
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute '93
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