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Originally Posted by squiggs96
Which is exactly why you take the ref's discretion out of it. When a puck goes in off a skate you should be able to make a distinction on whether the player was kicking it or not, but even then it's a grey area. When a puck is shot out of play, every single time the player's stick is being used to shoot the puck and the puck is going towards the glass. It would be completely unfair to all parties to make the refs decide whether the player was shooting the puck at the glass or two inches above the top of the glass. Unless the player reacts like Gio did last night, which wouldn't happen if it was a discretionary call, there would be a needless argument every single time the puck went over the glass.
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It's no different than saying it's completely unfair to let the refs decide whether a puck was kicked in deliberately and that every puck that goes off of a skate should be disallowed.
Like I said last night, before the rule when a puck was deliberately cleared over the glass it was pretty obvious.