Modern parents often give their child to children's hockey. This purely masculine game fosters a team spirit in boys, hardens the body and develops fighting qualities in them. The rules in children's hockey are practically the same as in adult hockey, but they still have some minimal deviations.
Puck game
The offside position on the blue line is permissible when a child (usually recruited into sports teams immediately after graduating from kindergarten - from 6 years old) from the attacking team crossed the blue line of the opponent's zone before the puck completely crosses it. There is a determining factor in this position - the location of both skates of the attacking hockey player relative to the blue line of the second team at the moment of its complete crossing. If at least one of the attacker's skates at the moment the puck crosses the blue line is on it or in the middle zone, the offside position is not counted and the match continues.
If the attacking team is in the opposing zone and the puck hits the blue line during the backward pass, passing deep into the zone, the offside position does not count. However, this is provided that the puck has not completely crossed the blue line and bounced into the middle zone.
Remember - when the puck is in the defensive zone, the entire width of the blue line is considered part of it. The same interpretation applies to the middle zone.
The offside position is fixed if both skates of the attacker are in the opponent's zone when the puck transferred to him flew into a player of the opposing team, ricocheted off him or his stick and completely crossed the blue line. This rule was introduced in children's hockey in order to prevent a large number of scoring situations, deliberately created by the puck ricocheting from the player and getting it into the goal. All these rules are usually explained by coaches to students during training.
Children's hockey penalties
Various penalties follow for violations of the rules of the game in hockey. So, for a game with a stick raised above the shoulder, a push in the back, holding the opponent with a stick and attacking an opponent without a puck, the referee will certainly remove the offender from the field. There are bench minor and bench minor penalties. The hockey player will be sent off for 2 minutes for unsporting behavior, pushing, playing with a broken stick, fighting, tripping, delaying the puck or intentionally falling on it.
The players and team representatives receive a bench minor penalty for breaking the rules both on and off the court.
Also, the referee can assign a free throw - for violation of the strength of the composition, deliberate shift of the goal, delaying the puck or for throwing a club in the defense zone. In addition, the referee can score a goal, even if the puck did not cross the goal line, and also if the goalkeeper was replaced by an outfield player, or when an attacking hockey player goes against an empty goal, and the rules of the game are violated against him. Such a violation can be a trip, a throw of a club or an opponent deliberately holding the puck.
