wasn't he in the crease?

[NickBritt]

My teammate told me that his 7th grade coach taught him this...

the ball was bouncing around near the crease.
the goalie clamped the ball with his stick INSIDE THE CREASE
before the goalie could rake the ball up into his stick
my teammate went to the edge of the crease and got down
on one knee.. he reached out with his right hand and his stick
and slide his stick under the goals stick (a little behind the ball so
that the goalie could not rake the ball without hitting his shaft.
he knew touches in the goalie the whole time and since hes on
one knee he can't be hit my the defence...

when he did this everyone stood still and we had no idea what
was going on.. we looked at the refs and they said it was
legal.. we sat there for about 10 seconds until a defencemen
came up and hit my teammate and recieved a penalty for hitting
a playing on the ground... i thikn it was unnessary roughness?

why was this legal because i thought you couldn't have his arm in
the air space of the crease.. if i did a bad job of explaining (which i
problly did) i'll post pictures

[RichWutLax]

yeah i couldnt understand what you were trying to say ... go back over and read it and see if you can figure out what youre trying to say

[3rdPersonPlural]

Everything 'goalie' is sacrosanct within the cylinder of the crease.

If your buddy reached into this envelope and touched the goalie (or his stick) it's interference, and the ref would have called it.

he knew touches in the goalie the whole time and since hes on
one knee he can't be hit my the defence...

But he must have contacted the goalie's stick. That's verboten. Play on!!!

[LaxRef]

Everything 'goalie' is sacrosanct within the cylinder of the crease.

If your buddy reached into this envelope and touched the goalie (or his stick) it's interference, and the ref would have called it.



But he must have contacted the goalie's stick. That's verboten. Play on!!!

I think what he's saying is that the attackman put his stick so it wasn't touching the goalie's stick, but so he'd hit the attackman's stick if he tried to rake it. If the goalie initiates contact with an attackman's stick in the crease, it is not interference. But the goalie should just rake the ball anyway, since eventually there's going to be contact not initiated by the goalie. In addition, any defenseman can probably just go check the kid's stick out of there.

The thing that smells funny to me is that for the kid to set this up, the goaliie would almost have to have clamped the ball so long as to get a withholding call.

[3rdPersonPlural]

. he reached out with his right hand and his stick
and slide his stick under the goals stick (a little behind the ball so
that the goalie could not rake the ball without hitting his shaft.
he knew (Never?) touches in the goalie the whole time and since hes on
one knee he can't be hit my the defence...


I wonder what the goalie was thinking with somebody prodding around his stick and not touching it.

Implausible, I tell you!!

[NickBritt]

ha he does it quick so as long has he doesn't touch the stick he can have his arm in the airspace?

[LaxRef]

ha he does it quick so as long has he doesn't touch the stick he can have his arm in the airspace?

You can have your arm in the airspace of the crease and your stick touching the crease, but you can't touch the GK or his crosse inside the crease. You also can't touch the goal or the net as part of a shot.

[laxfan25]

If the attackman put his stick in such a way that the goalie couldn't rake without hitting his stick, I would call goalkeeper interference. My feeling is that the AR about the goalkeeper initiating contact refers to a situation where an attackman is reaching for a ball in the crease and the goalie comes down with a check on his stick. In this instance the attackman is interfering with the goalie's normal play of the ball, and should be penalized (just giving the ball to the D at GLE).