In a message dated 98-10-25 10:25:24 EST, [log in to unmask] writes:
<< Doesn't it also say somewhere that if a penalty shot is awarded when
 the offending team's net is empty, the result is an automatic goal?
 (Theory being that if they let someone take a penalty shot on an empty
 net, he'd have a pretty easy time making it...)  >>
 
John, the "when the offending team's net is empty" situation is addressed
under "penalty shots", but not with the result you logically expected:
 
"RULE 4, PENALTIES:
Section 6, Penalty Shots:
 Para. e:  . . . If, at the time a penalty shot is awarded, the goalkeeper of
the penalized team has been removed from the ice to substitute another player,
the goalkeeper shall be permitted to return to the ice before the penalty shot
is taken."
 
Bob
 
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