Steve K writes in part ...
>Less than a minute left with PC up 3-2, NU has pulled it's goalie.
>A Providence player shoots the puck the length of the ice toward
>the empty net, but is an inch wide.  The puck passes thru the
>crease.  HockeyEast referee Steve McBride signals icing.  The
>Providence coaching staff is screaming that the puck went thru the
>crease, and in doing, icing should have been waived off.  McBride
>told them, and I was sitting directly behind the bench and heard
>this first hand, "that's only in the NHL"
>
>Now I'm not sure if there's some exception to the rule in college
>if there is an empty net.  I'm sure I've seen icing waived off in
>the past because the puck went thru the crease.
 
   NCAA Rule 6, Section 23, part e., states (in part)
 
"If the puck ...  passes through any part of the goal crease, ...  it
shall not be considered icing ..."
 
As Kenny pointed out to us about a week ago, the goal crease extends 3
feet past each goal post.  Call it (another) McBride-ism.