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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
His front foot was on the bench. His back foot was off the ice. At that point, he's on the bench (and thus, not off side)
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I think his foot was still barely touching the ice when the puck crossed, and really it shouldn't matter at that point because as long as his body can possibly interfere with the play (which it could have at that point) then he should be considered offside.
This is the official wording
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If, during a delayed off-side, an attacking player in the attacking zone elects to proceed to his players’ bench (which extends into the attacking zone) to be replaced by a teammate, he shall be considered to have cleared the zone when both skates are off the ice and the Linesperson judges him to have left the playing surface.
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To me he's still in the play and I wouldn't say he's left the playing surface.
And if it's not offside it's clearly too many men, because there is no way the guys on the ice are as involved in the play as they are in that picture if the guy coming on didn't jump on way before that guy left the ice.