Oh without a doubt...
Did you see the officials wiff on a too-many-men by G'Town? Had 8 defenders for like 15 seconds and then just ran a guy off and they completely missed it.
Sadly, no. Didn't watch that game (yet). 8 Defenders with the goalie included?
Was a crazy weekend. Kid played twice on Sat and then I was supposed to have a game... and the rest of the weekend was getting the basement ready for the framers to show up. Games were on the entire time I was home but really only _watched_ UMD and the Denver game. Watched the 4th of the Cuse game and that was enough for me to be happy.
Hope to get in all the games this weekend though.
So, ruling question for you:
Goalie comes out of crease and lays out A1.
Called for 2-min unnecessary roughness and gets locked in.
Backup goalie goes in the game to take over during the man down (no warm up given btw... but that's another story).
If, during non-dead ball situation, original goalie goes on field and goalie is carrying his stick, do you call it if they are not involved in a play?
Thankfully, it never happened but was close. I called down from the booth to the goalie on his knee and told him to get his stick on the field during a dead ball situation... but that never happened and it was a clean exchange of goalies on a dead ball. Even if they had run on the other stick, I'm not convinced that would have been legal either as it would have required the kids to switch sticks... but I'm not aware of a rule for that when neither player has the ball. I'd take my chances with switching sticks over running to goalie sticks onto the defensive end of the field.
But, I did coach a game a couple of weeks ago where our kids switched sticks with ball in one of the sticks as a trick play -- much to our chagrin -- and the official didn't know the rule for it. The other bench went crazy... and rightfully so. LOL.