At 2:42 PM -0500 11/4/96, Kevin Coty wrote: > I was watching the game on Prime and they had a mic on the officials. > While Piotrowski (sp?) was explaining the call to the captains I heard him > say that a major and game misconduct for checking from behind was a rule > change for this year. Sort of...according to the revised rule 6-20, "Hitting from behind into the side boards, end boards or goal cage is a flagrant violation and the offending player shall be assessed a major and game misconduct penalty. A disqualification penalty also may be assessed." The referee may otherwise assess a minor or major at his own discretion. BTW, the change in the rule from last year only involves a few words. Last year, it was, "...and the offending player shall be assessed a major or a disqualification penalty." The discretionary minor/major was in place last year. > BTW, I thought the mic on the officals was a great idea. How long have > they been doing this? It's nice to hear the explination ( or is some cases > justification) of a questionable call or for that matter, any > call/non-call. Agreed...I've noticed it for a number of years now during CCHA games on PASS or Prime. It certainly adds something to the broadcast. --- --- Mike Machnik [log in to unmask] *HMM* 11/13/93 ***** (Part-Time) Color Voice of Merrimack Hockey WCAP 980 AM ***** ***** Unofficial Merrimack Hockey home page located at: ***** ***** http://www.tiac.net/users/machnik/MChockey/MChockey.html ***** >>> U.S. College Hockey Online http://www.uscollegehockey.com/ <<< HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.