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Unread 11-01-2004, 18:32
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Re: Goaltending- the next big controversy

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Originally Posted by Anthony Kesich
goaltending is for on the way down. If you wanted, put an 8 or 9 foot arm on the bot, a big sheet of aluminum, and just raise it up over the human players, give em another 2-3feet to shoot over and impair ther vision. And it is all legal because the ball is still on its way up and the hand would still be in the arena. But, as Dean said, that would kinda be pulling a lawyerism and "interpreting" the rules to exploit the freedoms given to you.

-Kesich
Not at all. The rules explicitly say that goaltending is only when the ball is on it's way down. If they didn't want any interference, they would have said that.

I didn't see anything in the rule book about not being able to block the ball corral.

Not acting lawyerly is going to come back and bite FIRST in the butt, mark my words.

--Petey
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