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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!
Hooking Penalty
Hooking is the action of impeding the progress of an opponent with a pulling or tugging motion by applying the blade of the stick to any part of an opponent’s body or stick. A player cannot use his/her stick against an opponent’s body (puck carrier or non-puck carrier) to gain a positional advantage.
Actions considered hooking include tug or pulls on the body, arms or hands of the opponent that reduces space between the opponents: placing the stick in front of the opponent’s body and locking on that impedes the opponent’s progress or causes a loss of balance: a stick placed on the hand/arm that takes away the ability for the opponent to pass or shoot the puck with a normal amount of force.
Depending on the assessment, this penalty can be a minor (2 minutes), a major (5 minutes) or a major plus game misconduct.