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A high stick is called when your stick touches the puck above the crossbar of the net. It is not a penalty, but it stops play and if you do it in the other teams zone it results in a face off outside of the zone.

They shouldn't have called this a goal because his stick was above the crossbar holding the puck before the goal crossed the goal line.

It's a slick move, but either their high stick rules are different or they just let it go.

>> ^visionep:
A high stick is called when your stick touches the puck above the crossbar of the net. It is not a penalty, but it stops play and if you do it in the other teams zone it results in a face off outside of the zone.
They shouldn't have called this a goal because his stick was above the crossbar holding the puck before the goal crossed the goal line.
It's a slick move, but either their high stick rules are different or they just let it go.


He never touched the puck when it was above the crossbar.

I'm guessing you are russian

Besides, I think he let go of the puck before his stick went above the crossbar. That's why the puck went in...
>> ^visionep:

A high stick is called when your stick touches the puck above the crossbar of the net. It is not a penalty, but it stops play and if you do it in the other teams zone it results in a face off outside of the zone.
They shouldn't have called this a goal because his stick was above the crossbar holding the puck before the goal crossed the goal line.
It's a slick move, but either their high stick rules are different or they just let it go.

There are two aspects of the rulebook that I think might apply here; from the official NHL rulebook:

80.1 High-sticking the Puck

"Cradling the puck on the blade of the stick (like lacrosse) above the normal height of the shoulders shall be prohibited and a stoppage of play shall result."

80.3 Disallowed Goal

"When an attacking player causes the puck to enter the opponent’s goal by contacting the puck above the height of the crossbar, either directly or deflected off any player or official, the goal shall not be allowed. The determining factor is where the puck makes contact with the stick. If the puck makes contact with the stick below the level of the crossbar and enters the goal, this goal shall be allowed."

The puck made contact not with the shaft, but with the blade, at the time of release; and judging by the slo-mo replay, the blade was below the height of the net, only the shaft was above the height of the net. This means that the ref's made the right call, awesome goal.

This is IIHF though, not the NHL.

Typically, if someone keeps the stick below the crossbar, it's okay.

Its not that unbelievable have seen this typ of goal scored a few times in in high league matches.

also I would have thought with practice this is actually an easer goal to score than a 1 on 1 with a clever deek.

Normally an attacker would not get an opertunity to make this sort of shot due to defense on them or the keeper thinking they might pull ether this or a wrap around low shot. seems to me the skill in this goal is correctly deciding the right moment to try it rather than the action and the move itself.


sure doesn't happen that often and is far better than the standard pass across the slot to attacker knocks it in Goal , but i would say its less extraordinarily or unbelievable than some classic 1 on 1 goals or goals where a player takes the puck around multiple people before hand.

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