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Level:
High School Varsity. Teams: Pawling -v- Highland.
Date:
2/??/99. Location: Trinity Pawling Rink
Pawling defenseman at his offensive blue line. He high sticks a puck and lets it sit at his feet. His team mates leave the puck alone. No one from Pawling attempted to play the puck. Highland players realizing that they could get the face off in the Pawling zone do not play the puck. There is a stand off and no one on the ice plays the puck. What's the correct call?
Actual Call
Our intrepid official decided to wait about 10 seconds. When no one played the puck. He blew the whistle and faced the puck off in the offending teams end zone. Do you agree with the call? Well....here is the case book:
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Ice hockey
Officials of Northern Conn online casebook Rule 617
Situation 12
A player high sticks the puck which deflects to an opponent. The opponent makes no attempt to play the puck, hoping to get a face-off in the offending team's Defending Zone when the puck is first played by a member of the offending team.
What should the Referee do?
The Referee should stop play and the ensuing face-off shall take place at an end face-off spot in the Defending Zone of the offending team. Rule Reference 617(d).
The non-offending team has no obligation to play the puck in this instance,
because of the high stick infraction committed by the opposing team.
Level:
Mens Sr. Teams: Micheals -v- Foley's.
Date:
6/14/99. Location: Ice Time Sports, Newburgh
Situation: A player with an aluminum stick, has his blade come loose from the stick and fall out. Neither the blade nor the shaft breaks. The player immediately 'pulls up' and withdraws from the immediate play. He picks up the blade, slams it back into the shaft, and then rejoins the play.
No call. Both officials felt that the stick was not 'broken', he didn't participate in play, he restored the shaft and blade, and then rejoined the play. The officials felt that because he didn't participate while the stick was in 2 pieces that it didn't present a danger and therefore really didn't warrant a broken stick penalty.
Do you agree with the call? I couldn't find anything in the case book, so I sent an e-mail to Matt Leaf. With Matt's permission, here is his response to my note:
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Tony,
Although I would interpret the stick to be broken when the blade fell out of the shaft, I would also support your ruling (applied common sense) that a penalty was not warranted under the situation you describe. Even though the stick was momentarily broken, he did not participate in play with a broken stick and the spirit of the rule was not borken.
>From my perspective, GOOD CALL!
Matt Leaf
Director, Officiating Education Program
Level:
High School Varsity Teams: FDR -v- Highland
Date:
1/27/01. Location: Mid Hudson Civic Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
Situation: In an attempt to avoid rule 404 D (more than 15 penalties in 1 game) a coach decides to "quit" and orders his team off the ice.
Actual Call
The official called the captain over and explained that this would be viewed as refusing to start play & the subsequent consequences. The captain informed the coach, who promptly recalled his team back to the ice. The team was assessed a bench minor for Refusing to start play.
Do you agree with the call? Can a team "quit"? I couldn't find anything in the case book, so I sent an e-mail to Matt Leaf. Below is his response to my note:
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Matt's response:
"Looks like you handled it well. To answer your question, No! A team would not be able to leave the ice and quit without being assessed the proper penalties for refusing to start play.
Good luck the rest of the way.
Matt Leaf
Director, Officiating Education Program"
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