In hockey, icing is when a player hits the puck from one side of the red center line down the ice past the goal line on the other side of the rink, but not into the goal, and a member of the other team then touches the puck first.
The offending team is penalized by a face-off in their defensive zone, or, the area of ice in front of their goal. A shorthanded team (a team with one or more fewer players sitting out on penalties) cannot be called for icing.
The USM Men Huskies have a home game against Connecticut College Friday night. Watch the Camels get called for icing on USM’s Olympic size ice sheet.