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Question about College Hockey Rules?
I’m currently watching the Holy Cross at Denver University game. There was a play that was under review for at least 10 minutes. I’m guessing they are using the WCHA rules, since it’s in Denver.
What happened was a DU player went to shoot the puck in the offensive zone, just trying to get the puck in deep. The puck hit the linesman and the Holy Cross goalie was out of the net, not expecting the deflection, and the puck slid past the diving goalie and into the net.
They took forever reviewing the play. Apparently, it makes a difference if the goalie had touched the puck at all before it went into the net. That’s all they were looking at. It ended up being called a no goal.
I always thought that anything off the linesman or refs was still in play. So why did it matter if the goalie touched it or not? And why was it disallowed?
He was on the ice, just inside the zone. He was trying to avoid it but couldn’t. Definitely not sitting
They made the correct call of no goal based on your description. The location of the official is not relevant to the situation.
Rule 6-18-c-13 of the NCAA rulebook addresses this exact situation.
“A goal shall not be allowed… #13 If the puck hits an official and goes directly into the net.”
I am not sure why there was such a long delay, it’s a pretty black and white situation at most levels of hockey. According to the situation manual in the rule book, a goal will be disallowed if the puck deflects off of an official and off of another player prior to entering the net. My interpretation of that is if the goaltender attempts to make a save that has deflected off of an official and gets a piece of the puck in the process, the goal should still be waved off. I assume they were not trying to determine whether it actually hit the official or not, he should have been able to confirm that.
The same rule applies to USA Hockey and the NHL as well.
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