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Kids Canes: Icing Is Not Just For Cakes! It In Hockey Too!

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Who does not love icing? It is great on cakes of any kind. Cup cakes, pancakes, birthday cakes. It’s good right out of the can too! But have you ever been watching a Carolina Hurricanes game and heard the hockey teams be called for icing?

Besides making me crave sweets, I have always wondered what icing in hockey meant, and why it stops the game.

What is icing (the hockey kind)?

Icing is when a player sends the puck all the way to the other side of the ice where there are no players except the goalie.