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November 28, 2005
Legal substitution
An interesting situation occurred near the end of tonight's Leafs-Panthers tilt. Joe Bowen claimed not to have read anything about it anywhere in the "various dispatches from the league," which is probably because it's in the rulebook:
Any team that is in violation of this Rule [icing] shall not be permitted to make any player substitutions prior to the ensuing face-off. However, a team in violation of this Rule shall be permitted to make a player substitution in order to replace a goaltender who had been substituted for an extra attacker.
Referees Devorski and Walsh didn't look too sure about it, I have to say, but they eventually made the right call. It's a mystery to me why the league would bother with such a proviso, but so is much of what the NHL does.
Posted by Chris Selley at November 28, 2005 09:33 PM
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