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Exactly what constitutes a goal? On Sports Center, they were celebrating a save where the goalie gloved the puck while it was in the air and well within the confines of the net, so obviously there is not a magical, invisible, perpendicular line as in football. Thanks for the help.

There is a line on the ice. If the puck crosses that line completely, it's a goal.

So, this should have been a goal?

I'd think so.

If it crossed the line, either in the air or on the ice, yes.

If the puck is in the goalies glove and it's behind the line that is a goal.

With irrefutable video evidence. There is a camera in the goal and one directly overhead. If the puck can clearly be seen over the line it is a good goal.

From your description, it should have been a goal. I've refereed hockey for over thirty years, many of those in the professional hockey world. It's a tough, thankless job.

What game?

Not as much anymore but for the longest time the Bruins and the Canadians had one of the biggest rivalries in sports.
Well it was well known that Wayne Cashman would go out to the local bars after a game and being the heavy drinker that he was,
there was allways trouble and fights, he would get hauled into the station and wait for someone to come get him. On this night a guy shows up
at the station and yells large peporoni for Wayne Cashman he used his one phone call to order a pizza LOL aperantly he did that often.

Dean

Light the lamp!

Sounds like the zebras missed one.

You can catch the puck behind the goal line and look really cool, but it's still a goal, because the puck crossed the line.

Yawn, wake me up when there is a fight.

Break the plane of the goal, its in the hole.

Technically yes but it all falls on the refs.

Daughter bounced one off the post and into the net this morning. Ref called it dead. He had to reach into the net to get the puck. No whistle before the play. Even the other team thought it was a score.

2nd time this year it happened to her

Past the line is a goal, watch a game earlier this year when a player flipped the puck from behind the net and the puck went into the back of the goalie's jersey and the goalie backed into the net not knowing where the puck was, goal.

Absolutely.

Look up, "The Call", First base umpire simply blew the call in the 85 series.

Officials are human.

If the puck went into the glove, the glove closed on the puck, one could no longer ‘see’ the puck in the glove, and this happened at or in front of the goal line; and then part of the glove continued into the net beyond the line, but not ALL of the glove, then, it cannot be determined that the puck inside the glove crossed the line, and whatever call was made on the ice in real-time (no goal, presumably) would stand.

If I remember correctly also, it is NOT like football where ‘the plane’ merely needs to be broken. It’s the reverse - the majority or entirety of the puck must cross the plane.