When to bow whistle

keepmeoutofit · Post by **keepmeoutofit** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 10:23 am

Watched a scrimmage last weekend and something happened that i'd never seen before.
there was a shot on goal. the goalie blocked it with her body. the puck hit her in the upper chest. she kept it from falling to the ice with her blocker. the puck was balanced on her blocker for quite while with no whistle. a player moved to toward the goalie the goalie moved, the puck fell to the ice and there was a score.
i didnt time it but most of the players were getting ready for a face off by the time it dropped. some said they should have blown the whistle some said the ref wont blow until he cant see the puck? anyone have a call?

hockeydad · Post by **hockeydad** » Mon Nov 23, 2009 11:57 am

If the puck was not covered, there is no whistle...

Players should play until the whistle.

But as you said, this is a scrimmage, so it doesn't really matter. I'm sure the players would have been going until the whistle if this was a game.

nickmon3 · Post by **nickmon3** » Sat Nov 28, 2009 9:06 pm

Goalie has to have the puck covered.

keepmeoutofit · Post by **keepmeoutofit** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:31 am

thanks to you both. this isnt the type of thing i'll see again anytime soon.

keepmeoutofit · Post by **keepmeoutofit** » Mon Nov 30, 2009 10:31 am

thanks to you both. this isnt the type of thing i'll see again anytime soon.

DHMN · Post by **DHMN** » Tue Dec 01, 2009 2:05 pm

This season is still really young.. but in the games I've seen so far.. there are a lot of early whistles on plays near the net where the puck is loose but not visible to the referee who's not changing their position to find it.. and rarely a whistle even after 10 seconds of stalemate in the corners. They always say they don't want to blow the whistle on the stuff in the corners but as the season goes on they tend to blow it more.

allhoc11 · Post by **allhoc11** » Sun Dec 06, 2009 8:28 am

DHMN wrote:This season is still really young.. but in the games I've seen so far.. there are a lot of early whistles on plays near the net where the puck is loose but not visible to the referee who's not changing their position to find it.. and rarely a whistle even after 10 seconds of stalemate in the corners. They always say they don't want to blow the whistle on the stuff in the corners but as the season goes on they tend to blow it more.

I've noticed at the girls HS level that most refs don't move from the corner when a shot is on net. If you watch boys HS, college, or Pro games the ref will come right up to the back of the net and look for the puck. I haven't seen that consistently in the girls game. It seems like an easy thing to do, not sure why it doesn't happen more.