> It is up to the officials to enforce the rules. If the referees
> didn't notice the extra man, blame them, not Walsh. On the
> radio up here Joe Carr said it was a brilliant move by Walsh
> because there was so little time left in the game it would not
> have mattered if a penalty was assessed. But, of course, I am
> biased because I was not there and I am from Maine.
 
        I am not from Maine and I also think it was a brillant move. There
is very little difference between intentionally sending out an extra man
and "intentionally" knocking the goal off its moorings, or "intentionally"
falling down on the puck during a face-off late in a game (I saw Dave
Poulin do that a few years back for the Bruins). All of the maneuvers are
against the rules, and all should be called, but until refs decide to call
them, in my opinion the tactics remain fair game. Walsh's ploy may have
been more blatant than other ways of erasing time and/or delaying the
game, but if it works...
 
        If I was a BU fan, my gripe would be the refs, not Walsh. How
could they miss the fifth man on the ice, considering they had *just*
called the penalty??
 
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7000 miles. 10 days. 26 states. 1 cop.                   Rob Callum
Des Moines to New York.                 [log in to unmask]
Sault Ste. Marie to New Orleans.
                   --11 June to 20 June 1993.