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Originally Posted by atapene ....erm. every sport i can think of allows all the participants the basic right to stand their ground. | Not this one. Example, on the wall, if the puck is flicked past you and you continue to lie there without moving you will be penalised for blocking the player who flicked and is attempting to reach the puck. |
That is a different case. You are describing Shephearding or Obstruction, which is essentially interfenece, playing the player not the puck. Both Soccer and Ice Hockey have rules against the same thing more or less. Liam is talking about something more akin to incedental handball in soccer. If someone kicks a ball at you point blank and it rockets off your arm it is not considered a hand ball right? Should be the same here right?
What we do have is the right to our little spot of pool space when we are attempting to play the puck, which is different from the issue at hand... er leg?
What we need to clarify is the fuzzy line where someone tries to flick past me, I ATTEMPT to play it with my stick. Hit hits my Fin... foul??? hits my leg... foul?? or my body... foul??? or my shoulder... foul? or my wrist... foul??? or my glove... foul???
Is this something that can be written down black and white or is it always and forever up to the call of the referee? If that is the case it falls back to Jordan's original issue that he is in the same situation in two or three different tournaments and gets three different rulings.
