Bill writes in his Cornell recap:
>     Three minutes into the second period, Cornell dumped the puck into the
>     Harvard zone and started a line change.  If what happened next was
>     deliberate, it was a pretty smart play:  the Crimson shot the puck over
>     near the Cornell bench, where it hit one of the departing players in
>     the skate, causing Hearn to whistle the Big Red for too many men on the
>     ice.
 
Sounds like a bad call - rule 2-5(a) clearly states that if the departing
player is struck accidentally by the puck, no penalty shall be called.
Unless the Cornell player did somehow play the puck which led to the call.
 
>     Both teams were flat in the first period, and the only
>     other newsworthy occurrence came with under three minutes left, when
>     linesman Mike Andrews whistled Cornell for icing despite the fact that
>     Shaun Hannah's pass from his own blue line clearly went through the
>     legs of another Cornell player at the other blue line.  It's been a
>     while since I've seen Coach McCutcheon jump that high.
 
Are you sure he wasn't upset at something else?  Icing can only be waved
off if one of the *opponents* had a chance to touch it.  [rule 6-23(d)]
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