Okay, let's get really pickey here!  :-)

At the time the puck was coming under the goaltender, no SCSCU player had
"possession" it deflected off of Blackburn.  So, how does the rule apply
then?


HOCKEY!!!! -- GO GOPHERS!!!
kam
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: - Hockey-L - The College Hockey Discussion List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Benjamin J. Flickinger
> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:32 PM
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> Subject: Re: rules question
>
>
> --- kam wrote:
> I agree, Mark.  The SCSU player was not "standing" in the crease when the
> goal went in.  He was moving through that corner of it.  He was not
> interferring with the play.  I say it was a goal.
> --- end of quote ---
>
> The NCAA does not use the new NHL rule which allows for discretion of the
> referee regarding interference. You yourself say he was "moving
> through that
> corner of it." That seems to pretty much qualify him as "skating
> through the
> goal crease while the attacking team has possession of the puck."
>
> Therefore, no goal is the correct call.