Page 52 - Sports Illustrated for Kids Magazine (December 2019)
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UNUSUAL ASSIST
In a hockey game between the Wilmington
Wizards and the Morganville Mystics, a puck
rebounds off of Mystics goalie Bobby Delmore and
Illustrations by
Sean Tiffany flies straight up. Wizards forward Mattias Forsberg
knocks the puck out of the air with the blade of
his stick. It then deflects off his teammate
Brady Hill’s visor and into the net. Delmore
thinks it should not be a goal because
Forsberg’s stick was well above the
crossbar of the net when he made
contact with the puck. The
Wizards argue that it’s Hill’s
goal, so the position of
Forsberg’s stick
shouldn’t matter.
What’s the call?
KNOWING THE ANGLES
The Levittown Lightning are playing the Uniondale Panthers under
NCAA rules for women’s hockey. Lightning forward Amie Page is skating with
the puck behind her net, and is being guarded closely by Panthers defenseman
he places a marker and picks up one of the
Ginny Murnane. As Page skates toward the corner, Murnane positions herself
two balls and cleans it. Hanley complains
such that Page runs out of space near the boards. Eventually, Page and
that Albert should get a penalty stroke, as he
Murnane bump into each other in the corner, where Murnane proceeds to win
is cleaning a ball outside of the permissible
the puck in a board battle. The Lightning complain that Murnane illegally
times. What’s the call?
bodychecked Page. The Panthers think the play was legal and the contact was
ANSWERS ON PAGE 55 incidental. You’re the referee. Is there a penalty?
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