Quote Originally Posted by OumaFan View Post
I kind of like hockey in a way but never watch it Maybe it is a bad game for TV, I don't know. I used to go to UAH (University of Alabama-Huntsville) games when I was a kid and lived there. It was like the only sport they were good in, like Division two or something but they'd get Canadian kids to come down on scholarship.

I don't understand the offside rule in hockey. I played this NHL 2008 game for a while when I rented and kept getting offside calls, I get the jist of offside in most sports but it seemed different in hockey
Finally I can be of some use to this site. When the attacking team has a player cross the blue-line before the puck, he must vacate the zone (by crossing the blue-line and going into the neutral zone [the area between the two blue lines]) before the puck can be brought into the offensive zone by the attacking team. If he does not the play is blown dead because he is offside. Does that make sense?