The NCAA passed a welcome new rule making placing a hand on an opponent's face mask only a minor penalty; we saw the previous ridiculous rule resulting in a 5 minute major last year in the NCAAs when Walsh face washed a BU kid.
I hope they return discretion to the ref. There are times when it's a major when they reach in and yank it.
In general automatic penalties are stoopid.
Quote from: TrotskyI hope they return discretion to the ref. There are times when it's a major when they reach in and yank it.
In general automatic penalties are stoopid.
Yanking or twisting the face mask is still a 5 minute major, as it should be.
They pretty much discussed at the convention that it should never have been called as a penalty during our game.
Quote from: scoop85The NCAA passed a welcome new rule making placing a hand on an opponent's face mask only a minor penalty; we saw the previous ridiculous rule resulting in a 5 minute major last year in the NCAAs when Walsh face washed a BU kid.
The same thing happened to Kovich even a few months before at Princeton and that resulted in a goal against. Strange to have it called twice in a season
Quote from: upprdeckThey pretty much discussed at the convention that it should never have been called as a penalty during our game.
The System
(TM) works.
Quote from: IcebergQuote from: scoop85The NCAA passed a welcome new rule making placing a hand on an opponent's face mask only a minor penalty; we saw the previous ridiculous rule resulting in a 5 minute major last year in the NCAAs when Walsh face washed a BU kid.
The same thing happened to Kovich even a few months before at Princeton and that resulted in a goal against. Strange to have it called twice in a season
If I remember, the Princeton announcers commented on how they'd seen that call a lot this season.
Quote from: DafatoneQuote from: IcebergQuote from: scoop85The NCAA passed a welcome new rule making placing a hand on an opponent's face mask only a minor penalty; we saw the previous ridiculous rule resulting in a 5 minute major last year in the NCAAs when Walsh face washed a BU kid.
The same thing happened to Kovich even a few months before at Princeton and that resulted in a goal against. Strange to have it called twice in a season
If I remember, the Princeton announcers commented on how they'd seen that call a lot this season.
IIRC they said "we have seen that a lot this year after never seeing it before at all."
Quote from: scoop85The NCAA passed a welcome new rule making placing a hand on an opponent's face mask only a minor penalty; we saw the previous ridiculous rule resulting in a 5 minute major last year in the NCAAs when Walsh face washed a BU kid.
::cheer::
Stupid rule to autocall to begin with. Discretion is needed when you're getting jumped on the ice.