I sympathize with the NHL, but my thumb is down for the NHL's continuing inability to write an understandable rule that covers a goal scored when a puck goes into the net off an attacking player's skate. I sympathize because what the NHL wants to do can't be done. It wants a rule that says some goals off skates should count, and others shouldn't. So the latest attempt requires “more demonstrable video evidence of a distinct kicking motion” to wipe out a goal or to uphold the call of “no goal.” This would be okay if we ever knew what the level of “demonstrable evidence” was previously. Then we could identify more of it when we see it in the coming season. There is a concern that a rule that allows all goals off skates would create wild attempts to kick at pucks in the crease. In fact, that is possible anywhere else on the ice, and isn't regarded as any sort of problem. The “kicked goal” rule is and always will be until it no longer exists.
-Dave Hodge of TSN.
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