1 . Icing is a rule in hockey designed to prevent a team from dumping the puck deep into its opponent's zone in order to use up the clock or to avoid playing defense. A team is guilty of icing when a player on his own side of the red line dumps the puck all the way past the opponent's goal line without the puck going into the net.
In the National Hockey League (NHL), icing is not called until the puck crosses the goal line and an opposing player other than the goaltender touches the puck with his stick. In international play and in most European leagues, there is what's called "no-touch" icing, in which icing is called and play is stopped as soon as the puck crosses the goal line, regardless of whether an opponent touches it.
2. I will research it for you
3. Most of the time, booster clubs of each team will travel to the arena and sit together. But you don't have to do that. Although I highly recommended not to cheer for Boston scoring a goal sitting in the middle of thousands of Philly fans. 
4. A number of players change between periods, but some wear the same jersey all game.
5. It's actually a form plastic, being acrylic glass. And yes it breaks multiple times every year. Some from slapshots and some from being checked into it. The boards have about 1 inch of flex in them so players won't get hurt when they are checked into them.
Oh ok, it's worth about .70 cents. And that's a great question about the -1. Because as everyone knows here, that's one of my favorite wagers. The -1 full game and -.5 regulation line is virtually the same price. .70 cents.
So you will see me with a number of ties during the year because I play the -1. I have no problem with the team I wager on winning by 1 and me getting the tie. It gets that major juice down and you always have a chance of the EN goal at the end of the game. But the EN goal isn't scored as much as most think. I don't have hard stats on it, but it has gotten less and less over the years. The coaches don't want to chance an icing call going for the EN goal. So most teams will just dump the puck in the zone.
Oh hell it's so marketing now it seems teams have a different jersey or tweak on it every year. The 3rd jersey is the huge thing now. Usually on Sundays, home teams will break out that 3rd jersey that's just made for juicing sales.
Now the original 6 teams have holy jerseys. Thou is not to even think about touching the hallowed sanctity of these special teams.
The Original Six teams are:
Yes it does. It's a great way to get that juice down. But I usually play the -1 line for the whole game. I look to play the -.5 if I think it's going to be a 5 goal game or less
I'm with you all the way. I tell everyone if the shootout is so great, then why don't they do it in the playoffs. 
I can make this real easy. In the major sports, home advantage in pucks is very small. Since they have made all the rinks pretty much the same size there really is no advantage. It used to be home ice was really an advantage.
The small ice surface in the old garden was brutal on the visiting teams. Boston was always built to smash you into the boards. When you played on the old Chicago ice you used to have to through the crowd and step down almost two feet to the ice.
You just don't have that anymore.
Dogs are not the great play they used to be. Since the rule changes/lockout, things opened up and the better teams got better and the dogs have been getting ran over. Before you could just clog the middle and slow the game down to try to even things out. You could grind out a one goal lead and just play a 1-2-2 zone and clutch and hold till the end of the game.
Now there are some good dog plays, but you have to pick your spot. During January and Feb. you can get some good dog plays. Teams start to go through the motions. Now at the trade deadline in March the dogs will just get ran over like crazy. The bad teams have mostly cashed it in and have called it a season.
There is a start for ya.
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