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About This Page: This is a discussion on NHL Talk within the LetsGoKings.com forums, at Los Angeles Kings Hockey Fan Forum. Press released just sent out by the NHL:
-- MEDIA ADVISORY --
INTERPRETATION OF RULE 75 – UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT
NEW YORK/TORONTO (April 14, 2008) -- National Hockey League Senior
Executive Vice President and
INTERPRETATION OF RULE 75 – UNSPORTSMANLIKE CONDUCT
NEW YORK/TORONTO (April 14, 2008) -- National Hockey League Senior
Executive Vice President and Director of Hockey Operations Colin Campbell
today issued the following advisory on the interpretation of Rule 75 -
Unsportsmanlike Conduct: "An unsportsmanlike conduct minor penalty (Rule
75) will be interpreted and applied, effective immediately, to a situation
when an offensive player positions himself facing the opposition goaltender
and engages in actions such as waving his arms or stick in front of the
goaltender's face, for the purpose of improperly interfering with and/or
distracting the goaltender as opposed to positioning himself to try to make
a play."
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I was thinking along the same lines. It should be interpreted by the referee if it is unsportsmanlike or not. If the puck isn't there and the forward is taking himself out of the play by facing the goaltender and waving his arms/stick directly trying to blind the goalie should be a penalty. If it weren't then I would give two players really huge gloves and send them out to drop their sticks and just wave their arms in the face of the goaltender and the other three players snipe the corners while the goalie is blinded... It would be ridiculous.
While I just shook my head and laughed when it happened ("that's Avery being Avery"), I got to thinking that any time a player ignores the game (passing, skating into position, shooting) simply to interfere with another player should be Unsportsmanlike Conduct. So I am actually OK with this clarification.
4) Vs. leaving the audio open so we could listen to Mike Rupp call Paul Mara a “#$% #$%” and a “little #: Seriously, why doesn’t every non-network hockey telecast do this? Do they really think toddlers are watching? We’re all adults here: let us listen to other adults swearing at each other in the heat of the moment. As much as I love the NHL, I’d divorce my wife and marry the NHL if they hung ninety microphones over the ice so we could hear every desperate blasphemy and vulgarity that escapes these guys’ lips when they get into it. They always let us see them beat the snot out of each other; why can’t we always listen to them call each other % suckers, too? I don’t wanna have to strain to hear it or read lips, either; I want that in 5.1 stereo sound. THX, even. The audience is listening… and we wanna hear some nasty cuss words hurled around like we’re listening to “Eddie Murphy: Raw.”
Some of you people really need to get a grip over this whole thing. I didn't agree with it when I first saw it, but some of you are taking it too far simply because it's Avery. You can say you're not, but we all know you'd be lying.
For clarification, he should have been penalized for it, and it shouldn't be tolerated.
PuckMonkey
The Avery Rule 
What Gary Roberts said 
