This weekend's games at Lynah left a couple of rules questions in my mind,
and I'm hoping someone here can answer them for me.  Or rather, I'm sure
someone here can answer them for me.
 
One:  At one point, the ref had his hand up for a delayed call on Cornell's
opponent (geez, I can't even remember which game it was), but Cornell
pulled their goalie and scored a goal before the penalty could be called
(i.e. before a member of the opposition regained control).  The penalty was
not assessed.  Since the goal did not occur *during* the course of a
penalty being served, shouldn't the new penalty it be assessed?  In other
words, Cornell's opponent was not shorthanded, which I thought was the
requirement for a goal to end a penalty.  Why did this particular goal
negate this particular penalty?
 
Two:  This question is somewhat more subjective, and it stems from the
vicious crosscheck that Vinne Auger took in front of referee Dawes on
Saturday night.  Ignoring for the moment the qualitative judgment of
Dawes's refereeing skills (and ignoring the popular assertion that he
cohabits with ovines on a semi-regular basis, and has a tendency towards
sadistic forms of marital discipline), I wondered exactly what constitutes
a crosscheck.  Now, intentionally *not* ignoring qualitative judgments, I'd
like to know if *anyone* who was at the RPI game thought that Dawes's
non-call was correct, particularly RPI fans.
 
Three:  Is the center hole in the Big Red Shootout (tm) - the one which
wins you a car - genuinely large enough to allow a puck in motion to pass
through?  My friends and I don't think so, and we're just dying to see
Cornell and the car dealership get thoroughly embarrassed someday when a
fan shoots a puck right down the middle, and it jams.  8-{)}  Either that,
or the people who run the Shootout should demonstrate prior to each
Shootout that it is large enough.  That'd satisfy us.
 
Jeffrey Anbinder
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