I had a situation like this in my very first game.
I noticed a girl had a "cast" of some sort on her finger. I asked if I could inspect it. When I looked at it I noticed it was made of hard plastic. I informed the coach that she could not play with it. Out of nowhere, a Mom from the stands comes storming down and I'm thinking to myself: "Oh boy, here we go... what I wonderful way to start off the season." The Mom brings it to the coach's attention that she should just wrap it with padding. The coach says: "Ok, we'll just wrap it." "Coach, that doesn't work either." She can't play with it at all, padded or not.
Mom told her that it was "ok" to not play with it as they were seeing the Doc the next day - whatever. Everything died down from there and we continued....
Ahhh, what a way to start the season.
