ICE HOCKEY: RULES
(info source: Ice Hockey instruction manual)

Face-Off: Select the formation you want for each face-off. Players 1 and 3 specialize mainly in defense, and players 2 and 4 specialize in offense. You can exchange players 2 and 4 by pressing the control pad up or down, and players 1 and 3 by pressing the control pad left or right. When play begins, the players that are flashing can be controlled directly.

Offense Control Pad: Player movements and direction of passes and shots B Button: Shooting (shooting strength determined by length of time pressed) A Button: Passes and puck battles

Defense Control Pad: Player and goalkeeper movements B Button: Changing movable flashing players (switching to the player nearest the puck) A Button: Attacking (body checking) and puck battles

Shooting: Shoot by pressing and holding the B button for a period of time, the releasing it. The shot speed varies according to the length of time the button is held.

Perfect Your Flip-shooting! (a.k.a slap shots): When you've stored up enough power with the B button, you'll be ready to flip- shoot. This technique lets you "flip" pucks right through the sticks of approaching opponents.

Fake Shot: When the B button is quickly and lightly pressed, the player takes a shooting pose but does not shoot. Player Changing This lets you change the flashing player (the movable player) to one nearest the puck.

Strengthening Defense: When the B button is pressed continuously, the players gather in front of the goal to strengthen defense.

Icing: When one team shoots the puck from the position behind the blue centerline past the opposing team's goal line and and opposing player other than the goalkeeper is the first one to touch it, the play is interrupted and "Icing" is called. The puck is then returned to the defending zone of the team res- ponsible for the Icing for a face-off. Icing is not called when the puck goes straight across the goal crease or when the opposing team has lost players due to penalties and thus has fewer players than the other team.

Moving from the Fight Mode to a Power Play: Players battle for the puck by repeatedly pressing the A button. If the battle takes too long, though, the surrounding players crowd in and start fighting. When this happens, a player from one of the teams is given a penalty and put in the penalty box for a set period of time. An attack by the team with more players is then called a power play. Please note, though, that whereas press- ing the A button repeatedly makes it easier to capture the puck and also makes it more difficult to be penalized, the team that starts the puck battle is more frequently subject to unfavorable referee decisions.

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