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Originally Posted by edn88
A lot of people have made the comparison between icing and puck over the glass, and I think a fair point, which made me ask the question, does the NHL have another motive with not putting the puck out of play?
The only answer I could come up with was, maybe they are trying to avoid litigation in cases where a puck goes over the glass and hits a spectator? The netting only stops pucks going behind the net, but the little girl in Columbus was killed by a puck going over the glass in between the areas where there is a net.
I'm stretching a bit here...
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The girl in Columbus is the reason there are nets behind the glass. The puck went over the end glass and hit her, not on the sides