Speaking as someone who follows ECAC hockey closest (and therefore can't say
much about the other conferences), we have a hard enough time finding enough
quality, consistent referees with the current system.  Where are competent
second referee's going to come from?

-Todd
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joe LaCour" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: NCAA rules committee


> Don't blame the NCAA here, Nathan.  The good folks over at USA Hockey had
> this one up for discussion at last year's rules meeting.  It's based on a
> pilot program from the Mass Select (Tier I) league.  Fortunately, it was
not
> approved.
>
> Joe LaCour
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Hampton, Nathan E." <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 12:38 AM
> Subject: Re: NCAA rules committee
>
>
> > That sounds like an NCAA discussion. Some team is being rewarded for a
> > penalty by being able to ice it. I can agree with them completely if it
> > was 5 on 5 skaters, but given that you have reduced the number of
skaters
> > by 20% (5 to 4) would it be made up and surpassed by the ability to ice
> > the puck (which was a knee jerk rule to begin with way back when). To
take
> > the point of the discussion as if things were equal and then say there
was
> > a "REWARD" is pathetic ignorance only the NCAA could conjure up.
> >
> > Nathan Hampton
> > ________________________________________
> > From: - Hockey-L - The College Hockey Discussion List
> > [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Lewin [[log in to unmask]]
> > Sent: Friday, June 06, 2008 10:28 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: NCAA rules committee
> >
> > If I remember correctly, the main point of the discussion was that the
> > team
> > that committed the penalty was actually being somewhat rewarded by
having
> > the option of icing the puck without restriction.
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:58 PM, Joe Makowiec <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> At 6-6-2008 06:03 PM, Mark Lewin wrote:
> >>
> >>> There had been talk about prohibiting a penalized team from freely
icing
> >>> the puck but nothing in the CHN report addresses that issue so I guess
> >>> it
> >>> wasn't discussed.
> >>>
> >>
> >> If memory serves, this was a WHA rule.  Or maybe you had to get it past
> >> the
> >> blue line before you could ice it if you were on a man-down.
> >>
> >> Joe
> >> --
> >> Joe Makowiec can be reached at:
> >> http://makowiec.org/contact/?Joe
> >> http://makowiec.org/
> >>