Hooking (ice hockey)

Hooking is a penalty in ice hockey and ringette. This article deals chiefly with ice hockey.

The National Hockey League defines it in Rule 55 as "the act of using the stick in a manner that enables a player or goalkeeper to restrain an opponent."

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The first penalty we're going to show you is probably one of the most common penalties in ice hockey and that is hooking. When you're given a hooking penalty the signal for it is, like this. And usually, actually all the time that's a two minute minor. It's when you use your stick, to hook another player around the waist, underneath the arm, are probably the most common areas you'll see a hooking penalty. And now I'm going to demonstrate it, what a hooking penalty looks like. So let's say I'm skating and an opposing player is skating away from me and I'm trying to catch up to him and I stick my hand in here and I kind of yank like that. You're going to get called. Also if the player's skating away and you know you go down low, that can get a hook, or if you go up high, same thing, hook. So it's important that you keep your stick, if your going to try to keep your stick near the player, you try not to get that, basically this part of the blade in to the player. And that's the hooking penalty.

Hooking in the rules

The NHL covers hooking in Rule 55, which defines it as "the act of using the stick in a manner that enables a player or goalkeeper to restrain an opponent." It goes on to specify that "when a player is checking another in such a way that there is only stick-to-stick contact, such action is not to be penalized as hooking." The NHL groups hooking with other "Restraining fouls" such as holding, interference and tripping.^[1]

The IIHF covers hooking in Rule 533, defining a player guilty of hooking as one "who impedes or seeks to impede the progress of an opponent by hooking him with the stick."^[2]

Both codes allow for hooking to be penalized with either a minor or major penalty; the latter is imposed for injuring an opponent by hooking, and carries with it an automatic game misconduct.

Emphasis in NHL

Following the 2004–05 NHL lockout, the NHL made "Zero tolerance on Interference, Hooking and Holding/Obstruction" its top priority for game officials.^[3]

References

^ "Rule 55". NHL Rulebook. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
^ "Section 5" (PDF). IIHF Rulebook. Retrieved March 6, 2010.
^ "Collective Bargaining Agreement FAQ". National Hockey League. Retrieved March 6, 2010.