Hockey Rules & Interpretations | When Is Advantage Truly Advantage | #FeatureFriday

Do you struggle to understand how to umpire the advantage rule in hockey? Check out this video and more on #FeatureFriday, where we highlight one of the hundreds of clips in the fhu3t Clip Library. Find them all: 🟢🟡🔴🏑

The defender attempts a tackle from behind the ball carrier. He misses the ball and strikes the attacker’s stick, but the attacker is able to retain possession of the ball and has an opportunity to continue to play.

However, had the whistle had blown very quickly, would there be better options available to the attacker on the self-pass? There is no real better opportunity provided by playing advantage here as the defender kept his position in front of the ball carrier. Imagine if the whistle had blown very quickly—that defender would have been “cut out” of the play for being within 5m of the spot of the foul, opening up the central corridor for the attacker to exploit on the self-pass.

How do you feel about this way of looking at the advantage rule? How might you change how you look at both your whistle timing and when you may be able to open up the game and add more flow?

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