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Craddling the Puck on You Stick.....legal?

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Bakunin said:
If it was a Gopher player, he wouldn't have been close enough to do that because he wouldn't be back-checking in the first ****ing place.
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Or, if it was a Gopher defenseman, he'd either wiff on an attempted body check or back himself right into the crease allowing Trupp to shoot at will.
 
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Wholeheartedly agree with the HE ref comment....stick checks are all hooking in HE....I agree with a simple body check doing the trick, but I'm very surprised that college hockey, or pro for that matter, doesn't have a rule saying that the puck has to be dribbled or handled via the stick and foot or some wording to not allow lacrosse on the ice.......
 
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The defenseman just skated with him down the ice...never put a check on him nor lifted the stick from underneath. He could have done either to shake the puck loose. I just think the defenseman was so surprised he didn't know what to do other than skate with him.

My opinion...carrying the puck on your stick gives you no advantage, hence no need for a rule.
 
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zoofer said:
I agree with a simple body check doing the trick, but I'm very surprised that college hockey, or pro for that matter, doesn't have a rule saying that the puck has to be dribbled or handled via the stick and foot or some wording to not allow lacrosse on the ice.......
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There was a similar anomaly in soccer a year or two ago, in which a player tried to 'dribble' the ball by running downfield while bouncing it on his head. It seemed to work for him, for a time....until a player on the other team stood in front of him and flattened him, just laid him out, and took the yellow card for it gladly. Needless to say, 'head dribbling' became markedly less popular right after that! That's what you call an 'unwritten rule': do not try to 'show up' your opponent!

(you have to spend so much time and energy keeping the puck balanced, or the ball bouncing right, that you cannot also concentrate quite as well on the players around you. Eventually someone will make you pay for it!)
 
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zoofer said:
If we all watched the ESPN NCAA bracket show,we saw the video of the North Dakota player skating up ice while craddling the puck, a la lacrosse....so this is legal? I know that Michigan scored a goal this way years back but it just seems that a rule such as dribbling in b-ball would've been installed to get rid of the practice....I would imagine any player concentrating on doing this would be wide open for getting creamed! Thoughts.....
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Was hopeing someone had posted a link to that video here.

Yep Trupp sometimes draws some attention to himself. Notice that in the 2OT win against Denver how all eyes are on Trupp on the final play of the game and how open Frattin was on the backside. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IYauGIXe1s
 
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willythekid said:
it should be illegal, I mean, it is impossible to knock the puck off of one's stick when he is performing such a maneuver. the audacity of a guy like Trupp to even try such a thing! he could have killed himself! if anyone tried such a dumb trick I would have thought him Canadian...;)
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But I thought it WAS illegal. There was a big controversy after the Michigan player scored a goal in the 1998 Frozen Four at the Fleet Center in Boston. I was SURE that after that they created a rule prohibiting this? Is this wrong??? Does anyone know for sure? :confused:
 
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chickod said:
But I thought it WAS illegal. There was a big controversy after the Michigan player scored a goal in the 1998 Frozen Four at the Fleet Center in Boston. I was SURE that after that they created a rule prohibiting this? Is this wrong??? Does anyone know for sure? :confused:
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Are you talking about the Mike Legg goal against Minnesota? If so, that wasn't in 1998, or in the Frozen Four.
 
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At least he got it right that it was a Michigan player who scored it.
 
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zoofer said:
Wholeheartedly agree with the HE ref comment....stick checks are all hooking in HE....I agree with a simple body check doing the trick, but I'm very surprised that college hockey, or pro for that matter, doesn't have a rule saying that the puck has to be dribbled or handled via the stick and foot or some wording to not allow lacrosse on the ice.......
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Here is what i'd do on D. gap control --> stick check. there is always incidental contact with the stick, otherwise Dmen would be sitting in the sin bin for the entire season. I would imagine the same is true of a guy trying to dangle in the air. Stick check, play body...profit.

besides, it takes time to flip a stick to the puck on the front or back of the heel. Either way, your killing your flow through the neutral zone if you stop and trying this move. its not practical enough to be something that common, and doesn't seem like it would be hard to defend at all. Way too much skill required, not enough payout that a regular dangle couldn't accomplish...
 
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SJHovey said:
Are you talking about the Mike Legg goal against Minnesota? If so, that wasn't in 1998, or in the Frozen Four.
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No...the goal where he scooped up the puck behind the net, balanced it on his stick and deposited it in a "wrap around" move from the side against BC in the 1998 finals (in the semis, Michigan beat UNH and BC beat Ohio State).
 
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chickod said:
OK - I was wrrrrrrr... but the reason I brought it up was, as I said before, I thought they had "banned" that type of play. There was a lot of talk about it at the time...did anything ever come of it?
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Yes. That's why Trupp wasn't penalized and the whistle wasn't blown.
 
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