Post by Arnold Slick on Sept 27, 2007 22:23:26 GMT -4
jimmy said:
penguins23 said:
What are you talking about? It seems to happen often against Moncton. Both expansion teams did it against us already. It's funny when they try to throw someone off the bench and get called for too many men, atleast the Volts coach wasn't THAT dumb. It's not the refs responsibility to make sure someone is in there, it's the coaches.
In a situation where the penalized player is not eligible to come out of the box when the PP ends (i.e. misconduct tacked on, double minor with only one offsetting the other way) it is the team's responsibility to put someone else in the box to serve the penalty and then rejoin the play ... a coach can elect to not have someone in the box right away, so as not to be deprived of another player on the bench (which is kind of dumb, since most teams have at least one guy who they are pretty sure is never going to see the ice on the PK) - they can then send a player over at a subsequent whistle to serve the remainder of the penalty ... sometimes they either forget, or gamble on a whistle that never comes, in which case they must continue shorthanded until a stoppage - if they send a player from the bench, it is a minor penalty ... I seem to recall Saint John making this mistake last year at least twice against us (possibly even in the same game?), and thinking Beaulieu was clueless because of it ...
I specifically remember Saint John doing it at least once in the 3rd period of that 10-2 game back in December of last year. As soon as the Sea Dog players skates hit the ice Hulshof's arm went up and the call was too many men. Just one of a ridiculous amount of penalties taken by the Sea Dogs in that game and period. I think we scored something like 7 PP goals in the 3rd, with Jerome Samson leading the way in his final home game.
