Play on: 4.20 Situation J

[michaeldwilson]

Reads: "Defensive team with possession outside the crease area and offensive team steps into the crease or interferes with the goalkeeper who is in his crease. RULING: Flag down, technical foul."

I thought, though, that the play on situation is used for such crease violations. I just don't see the reasoning why this would be a time-serving penality instead of a play on.

Mike

[Snake~eyes]

Reads: "Defensive team with possession outside the crease area and offensive team steps into the crease or interferes with the goalkeeper who is in his crease. RULING: Flag down, technical foul."

I thought, though, that the play on situation is used for such crease violations. I just don't see the reasoning why this would be a time-serving penality instead of a play on.

Mike
Crease violations while the ball is in posession of the defense outside of the crease is a flag down.

[michaeldwilson]

I see the rule now, Snake. Thanks.

Mike

[CoachRob]

It's an exception to the crease violation play-on rules. The reasoning is that when an attacker cuts through the crease when a defender has possession OUTSIDE the crease (and presumably is starting a clear), the attacker is only doing it to get a shortcut to the defender so he can check him or otherwise disrupt the clear. This is a technical violation, thus the flag down. It takes an alert trail official to see it, but I can understand the reasoning. No shortcuts in lax I guess.

[LaxRef]

My understanding is that such a crease violation used to be a whistle, so the attack would run into the crease and jump up and down to kill the fast break. Making it a penalty strongly discourages this tactic. :chuckle: