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Originally Posted by DoubleK
78.5 Disallowed Goals – Apparent goals shall be disallowed by the Referee and the appropriate announcement made by the Public Address Announcer for the following reasons:
(i) When the puck has been directed, batted or thrown into the net by an attacking player other than with a stick. When this occurs, if it is deemed to be done deliberately, then the decision shall be NO GOAL. A goal cannot be scored when the puck has been deliberately batted with any part of the attacking player’s body into the net.
(ii) When the puck has been kicked using a distinct kicking motion.
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Here lies the problem.
As evidenced by this thread, people have interpreted this to be a kick with backswing (which seems to be how it's usually enforced).
But the rule doesn't say that and there are many styles of kicks that don't need any backswing. This has somehow because an NHL definition of "kicking motion" that's not accurate at all.