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Q: When are you allowed to body check in hockey?
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What is a legal check in hockey?

You can check at any speed anywhere on a player except you can't check them from behind and you cant check them when they are near the boards because you will get a boarding penalty. You are allowed to check them if they are along the boards though.You can do an open ice check which is when you check someone who is out in the open. But you are only allowed to check with your hips, torso, and shoulders. you are not allowed to raise your arms and you are not allowed to push with your hands and you definitely not allowed to kick.


Does ringette still not allow body contact?

Well, body contact is allowed and a lot of it hapens but you are not allowed to body check.


What is interference in hockey?

Interference in Ice Hockey is when you hinder the movement of a player who does not possess the puck. You can body check the play with the puck and no penalty will be called. If you body check a player away from the puck, an interference penalty will be called.


What is a interference in hockey?

Interference in ice hockey is when you hinder the movement of a player who does not possess the puck. You can body check the play with the puck and no penalty will be called. If you body check a player away from the puck, an interference penalty will be called.


Are you allowed to check in roller hockey?

More checking is allowed as the players get older. The adults get away with more than the five year olds. But even the adults can't do huge checks like in Ice Hockey. It is just a bit less.


What is it called when hockey players get smashed up in the glass?

This is called a "check" there are several different types of checks. Example: hip check, body check.


What is decking in ice hockey?

Decking is slang for a big body check/punch during fight delivered from one person to another during a hockey game.


Are you allowed to hit in hockey?

It depends. In men's ice hockey you are allowed to hit people. In woman's ice hockey you can get a 2 minute minor penalty for body checking.


What two types of checking do hockey players use to get the puck away from their opponent?

Stick check and poke check are the two most common, you can also use a hip check and/or shoulder check.


In the NHL can body check the goalie?

You are not allowed to check the goalie whatsoever in the NHL. If you do, a goalie interference penalty will be called and your team will be shorthanded.


Which has more body contact basketball or hockey?

hockey by far


Should hockey fights be allowed in hockey?

Most believe only in pro but it adds intensity to the game