On Oct 28, 12:47, Bill Schneller wrote:
>During Friday night's Providence-Miami game, Friar netminder Mark Kane was
>called for a ten minute misconduct and then made to serve it himself. I
>spoke with several people afterward and all had the same response as myself
>- I've never seen that before. Is this a recent rule change?
 
Probably the reason no one's ever seen it is that goalies (this side of Ron
Hextall, anyway) hardly ever get misconducts called on them.  But if this is a
rule change, it's not a recent one.  Back in 1990, Clarkson fans received
probably their first introduction to fan-favorite ref Harry Ammian when he hit
goalie John Fletcher with a misconduct when Fletcher argued for a crease
violation call after a goal was scored.  Fletcher had to serve the misconduct
himself, and his backup proceeded to lose the game.  I would guess the only
reason I remember this so well (Cornell was not the opponent) was that it was
the only time I had heard of this situation until now.
 
I don't have a copy of the rule book, but I think there is a section in there
about allowing penalty-box substitutions when a goalie is called for a minor or
major, but not for a misconduct.
 
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Bill Fenwick
Cornell '86 and '95                                             DJF  5/27/94
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