Actually, this is getting complicated, because
several people siting intimate knowledge of the
rulebook have had VERY different answers.
These are those discussed by the Cornell
answers last night.
 
Scenario:
 
   Cornell is already a man down when they are
   whistled for a delayed penalty during play, and
   Colgate scores before a stoppage.
 
  3 questions:
 
   1)  Who's in the penalty box after the play?
 
The guy who committed the penalty causing the
delayed call. And this is in fact the way it was
called last night.
 
This is simply a case of "the guy who caused the
shorthanded situation come out of the box."
 
   2)  Who would have been, if this had occured last
   season?
 
No one.  A goal on a delayed penalty used to wipe
out both the delayed penalty and the one that
caused the shorthanded situation.
 
There is much disagreement over when this rule
was changed, but likely within the last couple of
years.  So perhaps it's if it had occured two years
ago.
 
   3)  Who would have been, if this had occured 10
   years ago?
 
The announcers thought that it was, in fact, the
originally penalized player, on the theory (see
Chris Craig for a well-thought-out defense) that a
goal simply wipes out a delayed call.
 
At some point in the dim recesses of history, a
goal did not wipe out a penalty, and so both
guys would have been in.
 
So there you have it: four theoretical possibilities,
and each has, at some point, been NCAA law.
How's THAT for rule consistency?
 
 
Two related questions which, I think, should
inform the discussion:
 
1.  If Colgate were to be penalized during the
delay, would the penalties be treated exactly like
coincidentals (i.e., would the teams still skate
5-on-5)?
 
2.  Is a goal scored on a delayed penalty recorded
as a powerplay goal?  Does the player receive 2
minutes in the record books?
 
 
Greg