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Originally Posted by Yamer
Agree.
Anyone know the justification for instituting it?
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Same as the "using your hand on the faceoff" rule or the "clearing the puck over the glass" penalty.
The referees are too incompetent and/or stupid to call penalties correctly, so you either wind up with nothing called and excruciatingly boring games or everything called and games being reduced to diving contests. Realizing this, the league puts in a bunch of automatic-penalty rules for innocuous things that barely affect the game, so the games have more power plays and more goals without the referees having to do their jobs properly.