Icing the puck

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Occurs when a player shoots the puck from his own half of the ice into the opposing end zone and it is then touched by a defending player other than the goalkeeper. Once the defending player touches the puck, play is halted and a face off occurs in the half of the ice from which the puck was shot.

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