At 11:33 PM -0500 1/19/97, Deron Treadwell wrote:
> At 11:24 PM 1/19/97 EST, Wayne Smith wrote:
> >>ME - Alfie Michaud (59:58)            8 -  4 - 6 -- 18
> >
> >Is this the official time?  I was under the impression that a
> >goaltender pulled in favor of an additional skater was treated
> >(statisticly) as if he was still on the ice.
>
> I'm not sure.  When a goalie is pulled on a delay penalty call, it doesn't
> count, but the play was stopped with two seconds left in the second period,
> I believe, and Maine pulled him for the extra attacker.
>
> How is the latter different then doing that late in the game?
 
At Merrimack, we do not subtract the time that the goalie is pulled for an
extra attacker on a delayed penalty, but we do subtract it when he is
pulled in the final seconds of a period or when a team is behind late in a
game.
 
This is also the way I have seen most schools do it.  However, the argument
for subtracting it on a delayed penalty makes sense.  It's just that no one
I know does it that way.
 
But if somehow the defense scores into the empty net during the delayed
penalty (this has happened a couple of times over the years), the goalie
does not receive a minus nor should the goal be charged against him.  That
is a point in favor of not counting the time he was out.  I guess what it
comes down to is, it is extra work that no one seems willing to do. :-)
 
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