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SoMnFan -> RE: General NHL (3/13/2011 2:39:30 PM)
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Campbell, it should be pointed out, made one of his first acts the abolition of the ridiculous “toe-in-the-crease” rule, under which it was an offence for an attacking player to have a sliver of a skate blade inside the blue paint, regardless of whether the goalie was within six feet of it. It was after the brouhaha in Buffalo, where Dallas’s Brett Hull won the 1999 Stanley Cup with an overtime goal when his skate was clearly inside Dominik Hasek’s no-toe zone. The league declared it a good goal, and tens of thousands of Buffalonians are still sour about it.
“That wasn’t hockey, the way the rule was,” said Campbell. “You could have a goalie hugging the near post and the puck comes across and a guy at the back post puts it in, and it’s no good because he’s got a skate inside the crease?
“So we worked a whole day to fix the rule. And the whole premise is, the goalie has the right to make a play on the puck without being interfered with, inside or outside the crease. And the referee gets to make the call, at his discretion.”
Clear as mud, Matt?
In other words, its no longer automatically wiped out if a part of a player is in the crease (good change, imo)
But putting calls of that sort at the discretion of the on-ice ref is always dangerous.
Clearly a case where the Dallas/Buffalo non-call changed the rule book from that point on.
They are like any other sport, who create gray areas where they can hide their officials behind blown decisions.
To me, at this point, it looks like if you (without "help" from others, like a push in the back into a goalie from the opponent) ...do not make blatant contact with the goalie at the time the puck goes in, its ok.
So we're right back where we started from.
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