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50-721: Tate Rink is a 2,648-seat hockey rink in West Point, New York . It is home to the men's ice hockey team of the United States Military Academy . It is also home to the Army's youth hockey team, the West Point Jr. Black Knights. It was built in as part of the Major Donald W. Holleder Center athletic complex, which also includes Christl Arena . Army's first game in the arena was October 25, 1985,

100-597: A Scots word meaning 'course', was used as the name of a place where another game, curling , was played. Early in its history, ice hockey was played mostly on rinks constructed for curling. The name was retained after hockey-specific facilities were built. There are two standard sizes for hockey rinks: one used primarily in North America, also known as NHL size, the other used in Europe and international competitions, also known as IIHF or Olympic size. Hockey rinks in

150-494: A technical foul , and the other team will be awarded the ball. To ensure that they remain still, referees are instructed to time their whistle differently on every face-off. At the whistle, each face-off player makes a move to clamp the ball under their stick head, or tries to direct the ball to their teammates on the wing. Only those six players can attempt to pick up the ball at first. The three attackmen and defensemen from either team must remain in their respective zones behind

200-532: A 5–0 win over Ryerson Polytechnical Institute (now Toronto Metropolitan University) of Toronto. The first goal scored in the rink was by West Point plebe Vincent McDermott of Braintree, Massachusetts who also scored the second goal that evening. The arena is named for the Tate brothers, Joseph S. Tate '41 and Frederic H.S. Tate '42, who were both pilots killed in combat in World War II . Maj. Don Holleder '56,

250-441: A Face-Off Specialist. In the first organized ice hockey rules (see Amateur Hockey Association of Canada , AHAC), both centres faced the centre line of the ice rink, like the wingers do today. At that time, another forward position existed, the rover , who faced forward like centres did today, but a few feet away. The opposing forwards would whack the ice on their own side of the puck three times, then strike each other's stick above

300-409: A corner radius of 28 feet (8.5 m). Each goal line is 11 feet (3.4 m) from the end boards. NHL blue lines are 75 feet (22.9 m) from the end boards and 50 feet (15.2 m) apart. The 13.4-foot (4.09 m) difference in width from the international standard represents a significant difference in width-to-length ratio on the ice. The rink specifications originate from the ice surface of

350-459: A face-off violation). When a player is removed, one of the teammates not originally taking the face-off is required to take the face-off. Common face-off violations include: moving the stick before the puck is dropped, not placing the stick properly when requested to do so, not placing the body square to the face-off spot, or encroachment into the face-off circle by a teammate. In the NHL , the player from

400-413: A face-off, two teams line up in opposition to each other, and the opposing players attempt to gain control of the puck or ball after it is dropped or otherwise placed between their sticks by an official . Hockey face-offs (also called 'bully', and originally called 'puck-offs') are generally handled by centres , but are sometimes handled by wingers, and, rarely, by defensemen. One of the referees drops

450-441: A face-off. Like in ice hockey, a game of broomball begins with a face-off. Rinkball , a sport combining bandy and ice hockey elements, also begins with a face-off. Face-offs are used in men's field lacrosse after each goal, and to start every quarter and overtime periods, unless a team playing man-up controls the ball at the end of the previous quarter. In the field lacrosse face-off, two players face each other at

500-437: A player is offside . If an attacking player crosses the line into the other team's zone before the puck does, they are said to be offside. Near each end of the rink, there is a thin red goal line spanning the width of the ice. It is used to judge goals and icing calls. There are 9 faceoff spots on a hockey rink. All faceoffs take place at these spots. There are two spots in each team's defensive zone, two at each end of

550-442: A speciality is called a Face-Off Specialist. Also nicknamed a "FOGO", which stands for "face off, get off". In women's lacrosse , a procedure similar to a face-off is also used, although it is called a draw. The two players taking the draw stand at the center of the field, and hold their sticks together at waist level while the referee places the ball between the heads, which face each other. Four other players from each team stand on

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600-404: A team is trying to score is called the attacking zone or offensive zone ; the end zone in which the team's own goal net is located is called the defending zone or defensive zone . The blue line is considered part of whichever zone the puck is in. Therefore, if the puck is in the neutral zone, the blue line is part of the neutral zone. It must completely cross the blue line to be considered in

650-442: Is 30 feet (9m) in diameter, with an outline 2 inches (5.1 cm) thick, and the faceoff spot is a solid blue circle 12 inches (30 cm) in diameter. All of the other faceoff spots and circles are colored red. Each spot consists of a circle 2 feet (61 cm) in diameter (as measured from the outermost edges) with an outline 2 inches (5.1 cm) thick. Within the spot, two red vertical lines are drawn 3 inches (7.6 cm) from

700-440: Is a semicircle 10 feet (3.0 m) in radius in front of the scorekeepers bench. Under USA Hockey rule 601(d)(5), any player entering or remaining in the referee's crease while the referee is reporting to or consulting with any game official may be assessed a misconduct penalty . The USA Hockey casebook specifically states that the imposition of such a penalty would be unusual, and the player would typically first be asked to leave

750-451: Is allowed to have one of its defensemen come out and play on the wing during a faceoff. Players facing off must rest their stick in their gloved hands on the ground and position themselves entirely to the left of their sticks' heads. They may kneel or keep both feet on the ground. Between the time they go down into position and the referee's whistle, the players facing off must remain still. A premature movement by any player will be called as

800-422: Is executed on the place where the ball was situated when the game was interrupted. If the ball was inside the penalty area when the game was interrupted, the face-off is moved to the nearest free-stroke point on the penalty line. In a face-off one player of each team place themselves opposite each other and with their backs turned to their own end-lines. The sticks are held parallel to each other and on each side of

850-512: Is for a skater to take the face-off, with the wings lateral to the centre on either side, and the skater, usually a defenseman, behind the player handling the face-off, one toward each side. This is not mandatory, however, and other formations are seen—especially where the face-off is in one of the four corner face-off spots. Face-offs are typically conducted at designated places marked on the ice called face-off spots or dots . There are nine such spots: two in each attacking zone, two on each end of

900-436: Is restarted. The players facing off may not step on or hold each other's sticks to prevent the other from getting the ball. Nor may they trap the ball beneath their sticks without attempting a "tennis pickup" to prevent anyone from establishing possession, an action normally penalized as withholding the ball from play, another technical foul. If they pick the ball up on the back of their stick but do not immediately flip it into

950-591: The Victoria Skating Rink in Montreal , constructed in 1862, where the first indoor game was played in 1875. Its ice surface measured 204 by 80 feet (62.2 m × 24.4 m). The curved corners are said to originate from the design of the Montreal Arena , constructed in 1898. The centre line divides the ice in half crosswise. It is used to judge icing . It is a thick line, and in

1000-407: The goalkeeper , due to the much larger head on his stick, can face off; in practice face-offs are usually taken by midfielders . When a team is down a player due to a penalty, there will only be one other midfielder on the wing, or none if two or more players are serving time. When a third player, the maximum allowed by the rules before penalties are stacked , is serving time, the team thus penalized

1050-409: The visiting team is required to place his stick on the ice for the face-off first when it takes place at the centre-line dot. For all other face-offs, the player from the defending team must place his stick first. Before the league's 2015–16 season , the visiting player was required to place his stick first on all face-offs. A player who does faceoffs as a speciality is sometimes called or deemed

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1100-713: The AHL moved to enforce the rule for the rest of the season, and then the rule was approved by the NHL when play resumed for the 2005–06 season. The ECHL , the only other developmental league in the Professional Hockey Players Association along with the AHL, also approved the rule for 2005–06. The trapezoid was later adopted by the KHL for the 2019–20 season, and by the IIHF in 2021. The referee's crease

1150-422: The NHL must "contain regular interval markings of a uniform distinctive design, which will readily distinguish it from the two blue lines" (i.e. it must not be a solid single colour as the blue lines are). It may also be used to judge two-line pass violations in leagues that use such a rule. There are two thick blue lines that divide the rink into three parts, called zones . The blue lines are used to judge if

1200-419: The X in the middle of the field, in a crouching position with the ball placed on the ground on the center line between the heads of their sticks , set four inches (10 cm) apart, parallel to the midline but the ends pointing in opposite directions. Two other players from each team must wait behind wing lines, 20 yards from the faceoff spot on opposite sides of the field until the whistle. Any player except

1250-500: The air. The players must play for the ball in the air. An event similar to a face-off has been attempted in at least two leagues of American football : the 2001 instance of the XFL instituted an "opening scramble" , replacing the coin toss, in which one player from each team attempted to recover a loose football after a twenty-yard dash. The team whose player recovered the ball got first choice of kicking, receiving, or defending one side of

1300-456: The ball upwards into the air after which players must play for the ball. A dropped-ball (if contested) is a method used in association football whereby an official will drop the ball rather than releasing it into the air. A technique, known as a throw-up , is used in the stick-and-ball sport of shinty . A game of shinty begins with referee throwing the ball into the air between two opposing players whose sticks, called "camans", are raised in

1350-497: The ball. Its use as the method of starting play was discontinued in 1981. A face-off is also similar to other methods used to start or resume play in a variety of other sports. All of these involve two opposing players attempting to gain control of the ball after it is released by an official. A jump ball in basketball , a ball-up in Australian rules football , and a throw-up in shinty , all involve an official throwing

1400-623: The ball. The ball must not be touched until the referee has blown his whistle. At face-off the ball may be played in any direction. In bandy, face-offs are regulated in section 4.6 of the Bandy Playing Rules set up by the Federation of International Bandy (FIB). Floorball is a type of floor hockey with five players and a goalkeeper in each team, it's played indoors with a tennis sized ball. Matches are played in three twenty-minute periods and just like ice hockey it begins with

1450-417: The end zone. Once the puck is in the end zone, the blue line becomes part of that end zone. The puck must now completely cross the blue line in the other direction to be considered in the neutral zone again. In a hockey rink, the boards are the low wall that form the boundaries of the rink. They are between 40 and 48 inches (100 and 120 cm) high. The "side boards" are the boards along the two long sides of

1500-423: The field. Because of an extremely high rate of injury in these events (in the league's first game, one XFL player was lost for the season after separating his shoulder in a scramble), the event has not gained mainstream popularity in most other football leagues. X-League Indoor Football nonetheless adopted a modified version opening scramble (using the name "X-Dash") when it began play in 2014, but tweaked to avoid

1550-413: The goal is 72 inches (180 cm) wide by 48 inches (120 cm) tall, and the footprint of the goal is 40 inches (100 cm) deep. The crease is a special area of the ice in front of each goal that is designed to allow the goaltender to perform without interference. In North American professional hockey, the goal crease consists of straight lines extending 4.5 feet (1.4 m) perpendicularly from

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1600-465: The goal line 1 foot (30 cm) outside each goal post, connected by an arc with a 6-foot (1.8 m) radius; 5-inch-thick (13 cm) red hashmarks are added just inside the straight lines, 4 feet (120 cm) from the goal line and extending 5 inches (13 cm) into the crease from either side. The entire area of the crease is typically coloured blue for easier visibility. During the 2004–05 American Hockey League (AHL) season, an experimental rule

1650-399: The goal line and the end boards. The base on the goal line measures 6.7 metres (22 ft) — widened from the original 5.5 metres (18 ft) for the 2014-15 NHL season onwards — and the base along the end boards measures 8.5 metres (28 ft), with the depth behind the goal line-to-boards distance specified at 3.4 metres (11 ft). The seven-week experiment proved so successful that

1700-411: The left and right inner edges, and the area between these lines is painted red while the rest of the circle is painted white. At each end of the ice, there is a goal consisting of a metal goal frame and cloth net in which each team must place the puck to score. According to NHL and IIHF rules, the entire puck must cross the entire goal line in order to be counted as a goal. Under NHL rules, the opening of

1750-734: The namesake of the complex, was an All-American football and basketball player killed in action in Vietnam in 1967. Before the Holleder Center was built, the Black Knights hockey team used the open-air Smith Rink , which was across Mills Road, where the James K. Herbert Alumni Center now stands. This article about a sports venue in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Hockey rink Rink ,

1800-468: The neutral zone, and one in the centre of the rink . Face-offs did not always take place at the marked face-off spots. If a puck left the playing surface, for example, the face-off would take place wherever the puck was last played. On June 20, 2007, the NHL Board of Governors approved a change to NHL Rule 76.2, which governs face-off locations. The rule now requires that all face-offs take place at one of

1850-402: The neutral zone, and one in the centre of the rink. There are faceoff circles around the centre ice and end zone faceoff spots. There are hash marks painted on the ice near the end zone faceoff spots. The circles and hash marks show where players may legally position themselves during a faceoff or during in-game play. Both the centre faceoff spot and centre faceoff circle are blue. The circle

1900-408: The nine face-off spots on the ice, regardless of what caused the stoppage of play. Rule 76.2 also dictates that, with some exceptions, a face-off following a penalty must occur at one of the two face-off dots of the offending team's end. An official may remove the player taking the face-off if the player or any players from the same team attempt to gain an unfair advantage during the face-off (called

1950-408: The other team. Under NCAA rules in college lacrosse , if a team violates rules specific to face-offs, either by false starts before them by any player at midfield or illegal actions by the players facing off, more than twice in a half, each additional violation results in a 30-second penalty assessed against the team, to be served by the designated "in-home" player. A player who does faceoffs as

2000-420: The outside of a 30-foot (9.1 m) center circle. At the whistle, the two center players both lift their sticks, tossing the ball in the air, while the players on the outside attempt to gain possession when it comes down. A similar technique, known as a bully-off , is used in field hockey . The two opposing players alternately touch their sticks on the ground and against each other before attempting to strike

2050-447: The pocket, it is also considered withholding. In all these cases the face-off will be ended with the ball awarded to the opposing team at the spot of the infraction. Players facing off who deliberately handle or touch the ball in an attempt to gain possession, or use their open hand to hold the opposing face-off player's stick, receive a three-minute unreleasable penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct in addition to possession being awarded to

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2100-461: The puck at centre ice to start each period and following the scoring of a goal. The linesmen are responsible for all other face-offs. One player from each team stands at the face-off spot (see below) to await the drop of the puck. All teammates must be lateral to or behind the player taking the face-off. Generally, the goal of the player taking the face-off is to draw the puck backward, toward teammates; however, they will, occasionally attempt to shoot

2150-447: The puck forward, past the other team, usually to kill time when shorthanded although shooting directly at the net is also possible—scoring a goal directly from a face-off, while rare, is not unheard of. However, where the face-off occurs at one of the five face-off spots that have circles marked around them, only the two opposing players responsible for taking the face-off may be in the circle. A common formation, especially at centre ice,

2200-440: The puck, and then scramble for the puck. This manoeuvre was known as 'bully'. The Winnipeg players invented what is today known as a 'face-off'. In Germany and other countries the term 'bully' is still commonly used. In bandy , play begins with a "stroke off" with each team confined to its own half of the bandy pitch . However, the game is restarted with a face-off when the game has been temporarily interrupted. The face-off

2250-506: The referee's crease before the imposition of the penalty. The NHL has a similar rule, also calling for a misconduct penalty. Traditionally, captains and alternate captains are the only players allowed to approach the referee's crease. The blue lines divide the rink into three zones. The central zone is called the neutral zone or simply centre ice . The generic term for the outer zones is end zones , but they are more commonly referred to by terms relative to each team. The end zone in which

2300-650: The rest of the world follow the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) specifications, which are 60.0 by 30.0 metres (196.9 ft × 98.4 ft) with a corner radius of 8.5 metres (27.9 ft). The two goal lines are 4.0 metres (13.1 ft) from the end boards, and the blue lines are 22.86 metres (75.0 ft) from the end boards. Most North American rinks follow the National Hockey League (NHL) specifications of 200 by 85 feet (61.0 by 25.9 m) with

2350-422: The restraining lines 20 yards (18 m) from the center line. Once possession is established, or the loose ball crosses either restraining line, the faceoff is considered to have ended and all players are allowed to leave their zones. If the loose ball goes out of bounds on a face-off before either team can pick it up, it is awarded to the team that last touched it and all other players are released when play

2400-466: The rink. The half boards are the boards halfway between the goal line and blue line. The sections of the rink located behind each goal are called the "end boards". The boards that are curved (near the ends of the rink) are called the "corner boards". Faceoff A face-off is the method used to begin and restart play after goals in some sports using sticks, primarily ice hockey , bandy , floorball , broomball , rinkball , and lacrosse . During

2450-460: The trapezoid was to promote game flow and prolonged offensive attacks by making it more difficult for the goaltender to possess and clear the puck. The rule was aimed at reducing the effectiveness of goaltenders with good puck-handling abilities, such as Martin Brodeur , for whom the rule is nicknamed. The area consists of a centred, symmetrical trapezoid . The bases of the trapezoid are formed by

2500-408: Was implemented for the first seven weeks of the season, instituting a goaltender trap zone , more commonly called the trapezoid in reference to its shape. Under the rule, it is prohibited for the goaltender to handle the puck anywhere behind the goal line that is not within the trapezoidal area. If they do so they are assessed a minor penalty for delay of game. The motivation for the introduction of

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