On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Wayne T Smith <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> With the recent fine question and answers on DQs, I'll pitch in with a new
> question ...
>
> In a UMaine game this past weekend, Team A, with their man-down time about
> to expire, fires the puck for the length of the ice.  Before the puck
> crosses the goal line extended, however, the penalty time expires and Team
A
> returns to full strength.
>
> Question: Was icing whistled or waived off?

Rule 6, Section 27

> When a team is short-handed as the result of a penalty and the penalty
> is about to expire, the decision whether icing has occurred shall be
> determined at the instant the penalty expires; if the puck is shot before
> the
> penalty expires, icing shall not be called.
>

Icing should have been waved off, since the shot was taken while the player
was still in the box.

Presumably the reverse would also be true. If a team is playing 4-on-4 and
the opposition's penalty is about to expire, icing would be called if the
puck was shot before the team became short-handed.

John

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John Edwards
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