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Originally Posted by topfiverecords
They need to get rid of the hand pass all together. 99.9% of the times it happens, the puck is coming towards a player mid air and they aren't even passing, they're redirecting it.
Why can a player on a powerplay, stand at the blueline and use his hand to knock a clearing attempt down to keep it in the zone, to gain advantage, but if another player on the same team gets the puck due to a hundred arbitrary variables, it's too much advantage and we have to stop the play?
Or at least modify it so that you still can't be on a two on one, flip the puck up in the air and swat it over to the other player. Or when laying on the ice in the crease, swipe the puck with your hand to a teammate.
The really obvious ones, where you either already had control of the puck, or you hand passed a dead puck can stay. Swatting at a clearing attempt to keep it in the zone isn't a pass. If it hit Coleman's stick instead of his pinky tip, would that constitute a pass?
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I agree with this, although that becomes difficult to police because it then comes down to judgement as to whether something was intentional or not and based on the number of calls I have seen over the last several years where I was almost certain something would be called a certain way only to see the refs call it differently, I have a hard time believing we wouldn't continue to run into issues where the refs make a brutal decision that ruins the rest of the game.
I almost think that hand passes should be allowed in all circumstances as long as you don't close your hand on the puck.
I also have a similar feeling towards goals that are kicked in. I don't see how using your foot to score a goal actually takes away from the game. It takes huge skill for players who are playing against the best in the world and skating at 30+km/h (in some cases) to be coordinated enough to use their feet to direct a puck towards and into the net so I don't really see how it takes away from the game and in my opinion I think should be good goals. Reviews of such plays end up taking 10+ minutes because it's such a fine line between whether something was intentional or not and end up sucking the life out of the game.