Nabo's Hockey School: Lesson 1
SportsGamer is featuring another article from the community today. Forum member giguerefan87 shares his teaches us the basics of NHL 09. For some of you this may be a review, but all of you are new to my hockey school and as the saying goes we can all use a refresher on the basics. I, personally, am a big fan of hockey. I played street hockey daily as a child, went up to ice hockey, and now am playing NHL 09 because of the thousands of dollars in pads I would need.
As I mentioned, this first lesson is just the basics. By the end of this you should know some basic rules of ice hockey and have an understanding of some basic sayings and concepts. Let’s get right into it.
1. The most important thing you need to know nowadays is to not get beat by a line change. What this means is to swap out your players you need to either dump in the puck (i.e. shoot it in your opponents zone at the blue line) or have one player skate it in and keep the opposing team busy while players swap. If you don’t practice this then you could easily see yourself trying to rush to your net and trying to stop that  you just let happen. There are a few main rules that you need to know as well.
1. The first is called “icing”. This happens when someone hits the puck from one side of the centerline past the goal line on the opposite side. For icing to be called the puck must cross the goal line without anyone touching it and the opposing team must touch the puck first. The result of icing is a face-off in your end and you cannot swap out your players.
You can find his full article here. Be sure to share your thoughts as well.
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