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Ever since I saw my first NHL game at hockey heaven, aka Bell Centre in Montreal on October 23rd, 2003, I hooked on hockey. I had no idea what hockey was (it was very minor sports in my home country, Japan), so my husband gave me some lessons while watching the game that night. I even didn't know the black thing on ice was called "puck" and it was just too hard to follow the puck on ice while watching my first NHL game! Since then, I watched many hockey games on every level, college, AHL, CHL, NHL and youth hockey and that's the only sport I truly enjoy watching both on TV and at the rink.
This mini hockey 101 series will show you some hockey rules. If you are not hockey fan yet, hope you will learn the idea and start watching hockey! If you are already a hockey fan, way to go! Let's be a hockey fan with class, praising both teams with good play, not abusing the opponent team and their fans!
Boarding Penalty
Boarding is the action where a player pushes, trips or body checks an opponent causing them to go dangerously into the boards. This includes: Accelerating through the check to a player who is in a vulnerable position, driving an opponent excessively into the boards with no focus on or intent to opponent to go unnecessarily and excessively into the boards.
Depending on the assessment, this penalty can be a minor (2 minutes), a minor plas a misconduct, major (5 minutes), major plus a game misconduct , match penalty.
Don Cherry always says "Never go into the corner like that" on Coache's corner on CBC's popular TV show Hockey Night in Canada referring the body positioning how to avoid boarding when a player chases puck on the corner. We always talk about it in my house since this penalry can be avoidable depending on how you place your body on the corner.