A few times a year our sports editor, Jef Choy, brings me to a hockey game. Always an awesome time, we've been to the Giants once and the Canucks a ton of times (and the Grizzlies a few times if you want to look way back into our sporting event past) and even though I love watching hockey on TV and have a pretty decent grasp on the rules of the game, I always have a couple of dumb questions for him. He plays ball hockey (AHEM!) and is jock enough to enter a hockey pool every year and follow trades and stats and stuff like that so I always assume that he has all of the answers to my hockey rules questions... and he usually does.
This week we checked out the Ducks Vs 'Nucks preseason game (which we unfortunately, barely, lost in OT), and the best dumb question that I had for him during the game was:
"If a dude's stick breaks, is he allowed to keep playing with a half of a stick? Like is it legal to bat at the puck if your stick is not intact?"
in this photo: the canucks just scored and there is a dude named Bliznack sitting in the foreground
Sadly the answer is no, you're not allowed to do that. You can go to the bench and grab another stick or play stickless, but rolling around with a broken stick (a bat, essentially) in your hands is against the rules and you'll get a penalty if you do that.
Stay tuned until after the next game I attend with Choy for another edition of Dumb Hockey Questions!
