Please explain to me the basics of hockey?

Question

..like what the offsides rules are and some of the calls?

Answer 1

There is 6 players of each time on the ice and the goal is to send the puck in the net.

Answer 2

learn to skate.. shoot.. and get the puck in the net!

Answer 3

Don't shoot the tar puck into your own net!!

Answer 4

THE PLAYERS

Goaltender: The goalie's primary task is simple - keep the puck out of his own net. Offensively, he might start his team down the ice with a pass, but seldom does he leave the net.

Defensemen: These players try to stop the incoming play at their own blue line. They try to break up passes, block shots, cover opposing forwards (center and wings) and clear the puck from in front of their own goal. Offensively, they get the puck to their forwards and follow the play into the attacking zone, positioning themselves just inside their opponent's blue line at the "points."

Center: The quarterback on the ice, the center leads the attack by carrying the puck on offense. He exchanges passes with his wings to steer the play toward the opposing goal. On defense, he tries to disrupt a play before it gets on his team's side of the ice.

Wings: The wings team with the center on the attack to set up shots on goal. Defensively, they attempt to break up plays by their counterparts and upset shot attempts.

Offsides: When any member of the attacking team precedes the puck over the defending team's blue line.

Offside (or two-line)Pass: When a player passes the puck from his defending zone to a teammate beyond the red center line.

  Iceing: When a player shoots the puck across the center red line and past the opposing red goal line. Icing is not called if the player's team is killing a penalty, a teammate of the player shooting the puck touches it before a player from the opposing team, the defending goalie touches the puck first or if the puck travels through the crease (semicircle of blue paint at the "mouth" of the goal) on it's way to the red line.

A team plays shorthanded when one or more of its players is charged with a penalty. However, no team is forced to play more than two players below full strength (six) at any tiime. If a third penalty is assessed to the same team, it is suspended until the first penalty expires. When a penalty is called on a goalie, a teammate serves his time in the penalty box.

Minor Penalty: Two minutes - Called for boarding, charging, cross-checking, elbowing, holding, hooking, high-sticking, interference, roughing, slashing, spearing, tripping and unsportsmanlike conduct.

Major Penalty: Five minutes - Called for fighting or when minor penalties are committed with deliberate intent to injure. Major penalties for slashing, spearing, high-sticking, butt-ending and cross-checking carry automatic game misconducts.

Misconduct: Ten minutes - Called for various forms of unsportsmanlike behavior or when a player incurs a second major penalty in a game. This is a penalty against an individual and not a team, so a substitute is permitted.

Penalty Shot: A free shot, unopposed except for the goalie, given to a player who is illegally impeded from behind when in possession of the puck with no opponent between him and the goal except the goalie. The team which commits the offense is not penalized beyond the penalty shot, whether it succeeds or not.  

Delayed Penalty: The whistle is delayed until the penalized team regains possession of the puck

Answer 5

Well, when you said the basics I was gonna say: skate, shoot, score... but since you went into detail, so will I.

Offsides is when you cross into the opposing teams blue line before the puck does and your team takes the puck in after you and touches it...

Icing.  Well I thought I knew what it was until todays Wings game...

Hooking: Oh God... when you use your stick to yank a player outta position.  As the NHL puts it, parallel to the ice.  This call is overridicously called though.

Slashing:  Hitting an opponent with your stick, or hitting your opponents stick out of his hands, or breaking it with your stick.

Interference:  Causing a player to lose stride when he does not have the puck.

Boarding:  Hitting a person into the boards when he is facing the boards.

Fighting:  Enough said.  (5 minute major)

Tripping: Causing a player to fall using your knees or stick.

Roughing:  Physically hitting someone illegaly.  (Not with shoulders or hips)

Elbowing:  Hitting someone with your elbow.

Delay of game:  Either the goalie playing the puck outside of the trapezoid and behind the net or shooting the puck over the boards without it being deflected.  Or the players shooting the puck over the boards without it being deflected. Or a player closing his hand on the puck.

Goaltenders:  Protect the net and try not to allow the puck in it.

Defenseman:  2 of them on the ice at once, most of the time, the back line to protect the puck from getting to the goalie.  

Forwards:  Try to score the most.

The team with the most goals in a game wins!

Answer 6

there are a lot of "basics of hockey" i dont feel like typing them all