Hockey 101

In honor of Stormin' Norman's voyage to the United Center to watch the Hawks take on the Sabres tonight, I thought I should educate him on some things he probably doesn't know about hockey.Let's dispense with the problem of seeing the puck first. There is no trick to this art. It is simply a matter of getting used to watching the sport, so I guess you'll get to keep complaining about this one.So we'll start with a couple of rules you should know. Icing is pretty easy to understand; a player can't shoot the puck from behind the center red line into his offensive zone and past the goal line (the thin red line that extends across the goal to the boards), and when an opposing player other than the goalie touches the puck before anyone on his team, icing has occurred and there is a face-off back in his team's defensive zone. There are situations where icing can be waived off, for instance when the opposing team has a chance to touch the puck and does not, ...