>                                              and the first collegiate goal for
> sophomore Todd Westlund.  After Westlund's goal, the Gopher's 8th, the team
> cleared the bench to congratulate him.  When referee Bob Ames indicated that
> he was going to call a delay-of-game penalty, Woog tried to call a time out,
> but Ames just laughed. Woog later said he thought the penalty was worth it.
 
> Question:  could Ames have allowed that?  How do the rules work for time outs
> and delay penalties?
 
I wasn't there, but this sounds absurd. Sure, technically it may have
been a delay of game, but it sure doesn't sound like it was going to
affect the outcome at all -- which is what the rules are suppossed to
be all about. If I were a ref (which I'm not, so maybe with experience
I wouldn't say this, but...) I would have let/made Woog use a time out,
so the team would know that they can't do that after *every* goal...
 
	--david
 
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david parter				university of wisconsin -- madison
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