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Originally Posted by Sidney Crosby's Hat
Here's a question. If Dan Ellis had thrown his stick at the puck to knock it away from the net, would Brodeur have been awarded a penalty shot on Ellis? I'm pretty sure the answer is yes.
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A penalty shot is awarded when someone throws their stick. But the team that is awarded the penalty shot gets to pick any player they want to take the shot that was on the ice at thet time of the infraction. So the Devils would get to pick one of their 5 skaters to take the penalty shot
An interesting thing is that if the ref was going to award the Canes a penalty shot on the delayed penalty and then Ellis throws his stick, what would happen to the Devils penalty shot if the Canes scored on theirs? I would assume the Canes get to shoot first because the Devils infraction occured first. I know if the Canes dont score then the Devils will take their shot but what would happen if the Canes scored? There can't be two goals scored on one stoppage of play so I think the Devils would just get a power play (unsportsmanlike conduct to Ellis) then. Which wouldn't be too bad since they'd be on a two man advantage.
If that happened, it would be fun to hear in on the refs discussion