A question on rules sparked by an incident in Friday's BC-Yale game:
 
Team A Player is inside the offensive zone fighting for the puck. No
other Team A player is inside the zone, just Team B players.  The puck
squirts along the boards to a Team B player, who starts out of the
zone.  After entering center ice, the Team B player cuts back toward
his own zone to avoid a check and (without being hit or directly
checked) loses the puck, which then slides back into the Team B zone.
Team A player, who had not yet left the zone, picks up the puck as it
crosses the blue line and wheels to attack the net.  The linesman blows
his whistle at this point and says it is offside.
 
The Team A player pleads his case, saying that Team B took the puck
out of the zone and voluntarily brought it back into the zone, so it
shouldn't cause him to be offside.  Was the linesman correct in his
call?  Is this offside?  I know there are some rules experts out
there, and these subtleties still escape me, so I am relying on
Hockey-L'ers to teach me.
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Rick McAdoo                                  [log in to unmask]
BC will return!                              GO EAGLES!