Wayne T. Smith said
 
Linesman perhaps *can* call penalties, but they don't.  Talk to one
at the next chance you have.  They might point something out to the
referee at the next stoppage of play, but they won't call anything
besides too many men on the ice ... they want to work next weekend and
next year.  The CCHA has "empowered" linesmen to do more.  I'd be
interested to hear how this works, in practice.
 
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In the CCHA, I have seen a linesman make a penalty call on two
occasions. The first was in Bowling Green. A michigan player (Knuble?)
was feeling a little roughed up when he decided that if the ref wasn't
going to call a penaltyhe was going to take matters into his own hands.
He took a BG players facemask (into his own hands :-)) and pulled him to
the ground. The ref did not see this, nor any of the people around me,
but I did and so did the linesman. Knuble? got a very deserved penelty
on the play. BTW, it was sort of weird seeing the linesman skate down
the ice with his hand sticking out in front of him (if it was straight
up in the air it would be the signal for icing.) It took us a while
before we realized what was going on.
 
 
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