What bothers me about it is that it's the most consistently correctly called penalty out of anything in the rule book. It's such an innocuous one too.
Maybe modify it so that there has to be x number of opposing team players in the zone to count, or make it a penalty if it's in the last x minutes of a period/game, or reduce the actual penalty to a one minute penalty. On the severity scale it doesn't even relate to a missed elbow to the head.
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