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Summary: Don't trip your hockey opponent if the referee is looking. Learn definition of a tripping hockey penalty in this free hockey rules video from a hockey coach.
Chris DiRico has been playing ice hockey for more than 12 years. He is currently the assistant coach of the Amherst College women’s ice hockey team in Amherst, MA. DiRico played all...read more
"The next penalty we're going to show you is tripping. Tripping is another minor penalty and it's when a player uses his stick or body to make an opponent fall to the ice. We're going to demonstrate a couple of examples of what a tripping penalty would look like. So the most common way for a tripping penalty to occur is when a skater is skating away from you and you kind of use your skate down here and you basically kind of like hook. Or if you get by accident, some times this can actually occur by accident. You kind of get your blade around their ankle or skate or leg and you make them fall to the ice. Also a trip can be if I'm coming down low, something like that where you get both the entire shaft of the blade underneath both legs. And I'm not going to demonstrate it, but you could use your body to trip if I was, I don't know coming down low and I made him trip like that. You could get called so. That is the tripping penalty."
eHow Article: Hockey Penalties: Tripping