In his summary of the Michigan - Bowling Green game, Roger Spurgeon commented: >Warren Luhning skated into the Falcon zone backwards and carrying the >puck, passed to Matt Herr who got the puck behind Petrie and into the >net. My initial impression (and, it seemed, the impression of many >of the other 5015 people in the arena) was that the play was >offsides. It was later explained to me that a skater in possesion of >the puck can skate in backwards (thus entering the zone before the >puck) and still be onside. I've never heard of such an exception to the off-sides rule. I thought that rule was iron-clad -- the puck MUST precede any and all attacking players. Any comments from our hockey rules experts??? -------------------------------------------------- Dr. Stephen E. Roth [log in to unmask] Dean of Student Services Canisius College (716) 888-2522 Buffalo, New York 14208 FAX (716) 888-3190 -------------------------------------------------- HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.