Cross-check Rules
You can't just be up there and just doin' a check like that. 1a. A cross-check is when you
1b. Okay well listen. Cross-checking is when you cross the
1c. Let me start over
1c-a. The defensive player is not allowed to do a motion to the, uh, skater, that prevents the skater from doing, you know, just trying to live his life. You can't do that.
1c-b. Once the defender is in the crease, he can't be over here and say to the skater, like, "I'm gonna get ya! I'm gonna hit you out! You better watch your butt!" and then just be like he didn't even do that.
1c-b(1). Like, if you're about to check and then don't check, you have to still check. You cannot not check. Does that make any sense?
1c-b(2). You gotta be, on the stick, and then, you gotta be gentle
1c-b(2)-a. Okay, well, you can have the stick up here, like this, but then there's the head you gotta think about.
1c-b(2)-b. Fairuza Balk hasn't been in any movies in forever. I hope she wasn't typecast as that racist lady in American History X.
1c-b(2)-b(i). Oh wait, she was in The Waterboy too! That would be even worse.
1c-b(2)-b(ii). "get in mah bellah" -- Adam Water, "The Waterboy." Haha, classic...
1c-b(3). Okay seriously though. A cross-check is when the defender makes a movement that, as determined by, when you do a move involving the stick held like