* If a defending player hits the sliotar wide, a 45-metre puck is awarded to the opposition ( in hurling, it is a 65-metre puck )

He explained, " If you give the liberty to the goalies to play the puck, they'll mess up more than they're successful.

If a goal is scored by a player on the defending team, credit for the goal goes to the last player on the other team to have touched the puck ; this is because own goals in hockey are typically cases where the player so credited had his / her shot deflected, but this convention is used even where this isn't actually the case.

* If the puck is on a clear path into the goal and the player stops it with anything other than the mallet, this is goaltending.

* If the puck leaves the table, a foul is called on the player that caused the puck to go out of play due to offensive motion and the opposing player gets possession of the puck.

If the penalty is minor, referees award an advantage puck-the team that committed the foul is pushed back 3 metres from the puck, while the other team gets free possession.

If another player on the goal-scoring team touched the puck to help score the goal before the goal-scoring player touched it without an opposing player intervening ( touching the puck in between ), then that player gets an assist.

If yet another player on the goal-scoring team also touched the puck before that without an opposing player intervening, then that player also gets an assist.

If a hockey player is last to touch the puck before it enters his own team's net — which in football ( soccer ) is called an own goal — credit for the goal goes to the last player on the scoring team to have touched the puck.

If a player scores off of a rebound given up by a goaltender, assists are still awarded, as long as there is no re-possession by that goaltender, meaning he or she did not have complete control of the puck.

If a player passes the puck to another player who then completes a give-and-go with a different player for a goal, the player who made the pass that set up the goal gets the primary assist, and the player who passed to the eventual goal scorer before the give-and-go took place gets the secondary assist.

If the puck is first touched by the goaltender or a player on the team that iced the puck, icing is waved off ( cancelled ) and play continues.

If another player possesses the puck attacking into the zone, the centre's job is to provide support if the puck carrier needs to pass to another player across the blue line.

If there is immediate pressure from the opposing team, a goalie may choose to hold on to the puck ( for a second or more, with judgment from the referee ) to stop play for a face-off.

If a goalie holds on to the puck for too long without any pressure they may be subject to a 2-minute delay of game penalty.

If a puck left the playing surface, for example, the faceoff would take place wherever the puck was last played.

If a penalty shot is awarded and the penalized team had pulled their goaltender in favour of an extra attacker, the player fouled is automatically awarded a penalty shot goal, regardless of whether the puck went in.

Without preliminaries, Esther asked him, `` If you are a world citizen, will you take Garry Davis' place in his tent while he goes to the hospital ''??

If the decision goes wrong, it may be -- as Mr. Stevenson fears -- `` the first step on the slippery path downhill '' to a U.N. without operational responsibilities and without effective meaning.

If more than one player selects a tile in that row, then the player whose tile is in the leftmost column ( closest to 1 ) goes first.

If the daughter is an only child or her sisters are deceased and have no living issue, she ( or her heir ) is vested with the title ; otherwise, since a peerage cannot be shared nor divided, the dignity goes into abeyance between the sisters or their heirs, and is held by no one.

If she goes her time out, she herself cuts the navel-string with a shell, which she boils along with the secondine, and eats them both.

If a kicked ball goes out of bounds, or the kicking team scores a single or field goal as a result of the kick, the other team likewise gets possession.

If a fumbled ball goes out of bounds, the team whose player last touched it is awarded possession at the spot where it went out of bounds.

If something goes wrong, ed is sometimes the only editor available.

If the Commons have impeached a peer, the Lords take custody of the accused, otherwise custody goes to Black Rod.

If truly irreducible systems are found, the argument goes, then intelligent design must be the correct explanation for their existence.

If one is ill, one goes to a doctor rather than a psychologist, because the doctor is expert in the subject of health.

If a fighter loses consciousness (" goes limp ") as a result of legal strikes, or does not immediately defend himself after a knockdown, he is declared knocked out.

If the net excitation received by a neuron over a short period of time is large enough, the neuron generates a brief pulse called an action potential, which originates at the soma and propagates rapidly along the axon, activating synapses onto other neurons as it goes.

If that judgment goes to appeal, the appellate court will have the opportunity to review both the precedent and the case under appeal, perhaps overruling the previous case law by setting a new precedent of higher authority.

If his reasoning is valid, he goes on to argue, either it is not very immoral to value small luxuries over saving many lives, or such affluent people are very immoral.

If both vaulters miss, the bar goes down by a small increment, and if both clear, the bar goes up by a small increment.

If the ball goes wide of the goal, the defending team is allowed a free ' knock-in ' from the place where the ball crossed the goal line, thus getting the ball back into play.

If this goes unnoticed by a player, the opponent can fill in the empty space, completing the tessera.

If a player goes outside the path, they next start where their pencil left the track.

If the project goes ahead, feeder ships would take containers from the port of Oswego on Lake Ontario in upstate New York to Melford International Terminal in Nova Scotia for transfer to larger ocean-going ships.

If and when the airport eventually goes ahead, the Royal Mail ship will cease operations when flights begin.

If a person occupies land for the required period of time as set out in provincial limitation acts and, during that time, no legal action is taken to evict or in trespass, the ownership in the land goes from the legal owner to the squatter.

If mating goes on for too long, the female may eventually lose interest, breaking off the process.

If the set goes to a tie-break, players are given one additional opportunity to challenge the call.