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Goals: Goals seem easy to get, but there are specific rules for scoring. If you score, but it’s an icing, it does not count. If you do score from that far away, nice shot! If you kick the puck in the net, it does not count, because it isn’t soccer, and you HAVE to shoot it in the net with your stick. You can’t push the puck into the net after the referee has blown the whistle either because they won’t count that as a goal. Give the goalie a break! If the net moves, and it isn’t aligned with the goal line, it does not count if you score with the net off. If the puck is in the air and you hit it in the net with your hand, it does not count because in hockey, you can’t touch the puck with your hand unless you are a goalie. The only other time you can touch the puck with your hand is if you hit it down to your stick, but you HAVE to touch it with your stick before someone on your team does or they will call it a hand pass.

Shootouts and Overtime: If you are in an important game, and by the end of the game it is the same score, this is where overtimes and shootouts come in. In overtimes, each team puts one goalie, and four/five players. (Depending on what level/age you play). Whoever scores the first goal, wins. If the time runs out, and still, no one has scored, it goes into a shootout. Each team picks 3 players to shoot. If both teams have scored the same amount of times, after the three players have shot, more people shoot until a team has more points. When you shoot in shootouts, if you lose the puck, you can’t go try again, that is your “shot”. If you shoot and it goes off the goalie, and you think about rebounding, (putting the puck in the net after the goalie’s pads block it) think again because you can’t rebound in shootouts. You also can’t stop in shootouts before/while you shoot.

That is all you need to know about the rules of hockey!

Now get out on the ice and play!

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