Jim Love writes: > I always assumed (I know, the old a** of u and me bit :-) >that hockey officials, as in baseball, were considered part of the playing >surface, Or, as they say in cricket, "The umpire is not a boundary!" I was going to guess that there's some rule about having a faceoff if an official's interference gives a clear advantage to one team (and a goal would certainly count), but I'm sure I've seen clearing attempts kept in by the linesman without play being stopped. John Whelan, Cornell '91 <[log in to unmask]> <http://www.cc.utah.edu/~jtw16960/jshock.html> Cornell Men's Ice Hockey: Back-to-back ECAC and Ivy League Champions HOCKEY-L is for discussion of college ice hockey; send information to [log in to unmask], The College Hockey Information List.