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ruffles · Guru

hockey question

meggie · Senior Member

Not to start something, but 'icing' is what Canadians call 'frosting'.

However, since you are referring to hockey it is passing across two red lines. I got this from Wikepedia-hockey icing:

Icing in ice hockey occurs when a player shoots the puck across at least two red lines, the opposing team's goal line being the last, and the puck remains untouched. When icing occurs, a linesman stops play. Play is resumed with a faceoff in the defending zone of the team that committed the infraction.

If you are shorthanded (ie. you have someone in the penalty box) you can ice the puck. You'll see the shorthanded team try to shoot the puck the length of the ice in order to use up time.
There's more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icing_(ice_hockey)

I've been watching the US-Swiss game and it's excellent!

-- Edited by meggie on Wednesday 24th of February 2010 09:34:30 PM

-- Edited by meggie on Wednesday 24th of February 2010 09:36:03 PM

meggie · Senior Member

I tried twice to copy/paste the wikepedia link but it won't come up. Just google 'hockey icing' and check out the Wickepedia one.

KarenK · Guru

I don't know the technical rules (my husband and sons would be horrified, LOL!), but it seems to be when a player wings the puck down the ice from the other end of the rink (I guess that's the part about passing two red lines).

Meggie, are you serious about "frosting"? That is just too funny! Isn't it funny too that those are the two names for the good part of a cake, frosting and icing? I call it frosting -- does that mean Canadians call it icing? LOL!!!

ruffles · Guru

Found a hockey glossary

http://proicehockey.about.com/od/hockeyglossary/Hockey_Glossary_learn_the_language_of_ice_hockey.htm

KarenK · Guru

Not to provoke another international incident, my husband says he has never heard a Canadian announcer use the term "frosting."

ruffles · Guru

Could this mean that Canadians have never been frosted or won't admit to that? *grin*

meggie · Senior Member

LMAO icing--hockey and cake!!

We only get frosted when we don't win!

KarenK · Guru

My husband said "I think your friend is yanking your chain" when I asked him about "frosting." I hate it when he's right! furious

I hope you know you've just started an urban legend because my son will go to school and mention to friends that Canadians call icing frosting and they'll tell friends and they'll tell friends...

KarenGA · Veteran Member

Thanks for the hockey lesson. I don't watch much, but hubby does put it on when playoff and Standley roll around each year. I always thought icing was when they put the puck to the other end, but didn't have a player across the line on that end. Isn't it OK to shoot the puck the length of the rink if a player crosses the line before the puck??

LOL, here in the south we don't ice, we frost!!

meggie · Senior Member

KarenGa, you're pretty close. I didn't realize hockey was so complicated until I try to explain it. When you grow up with something the rules are just there. I'm sure baseball is like that for you.

KK, I'm not yanking your chain. In Canada, the top stuff on a cake is icing, and when you pass across two lines, that's icing too. Frost is what is on the windshield on a cold morning--no frosting anywhere. Honest!