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. end quoted material 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. Scott Spooner [log in to unmask] "If a technology is distinguishable from magic, it is insufficiently advanced" HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.