Steal the goalie's stick?

[wildcardcis]

In a rather rowdy game, with action at the OTHER end of the ice, two players skate up to the goalie, grab his stick and pull it away from him, and skate the stick over to their bench and pass it off the ice. The officials apparently don't see this happen (as the action was at the other end) but the goalie is now yelling to the refs that the other team stole his stick (and the officials see that, for whatever reason, the goalie no longer has a stick). The opposing team now skates down the ice and scores a goal on the stickless goalie. The officials count the goal. (BTW at this point the scored-on team skates off the ice and forfeits the game. The stick is never recovered and the players take up a collection to buy the goalie a new stick.)

What SHOULD have happened here? Thanks.

[RefWEB]

Originally posted by wildcardcis
In a rather rowdy game, with action at the OTHER end of the ice, two players skate up to the goalie, grab his stick and pull it away from him, and skate the stick over to their bench and pass it off the ice. The officials apparently don't see this happen (as the action was at the other end) but the goalie is now yelling to the refs that the other team stole his stick (and the officials see that, for whatever reason, the goalie no longer has a stick). The opposing team now skates down the ice and scores a goal on the stickless goalie. The officials count the goal. (BTW at this point the scored-on team skates off the ice and forfeits the game. The stick is never recovered and the players take up a collection to buy the goalie a new stick.)

What SHOULD have happened here? Thanks.

If nobody saw the stick being taken away, then there can be no call.

If the referee saw someone take the stick, a minor for intereference is the best you can do.

If a linesman saw it, under Canadian rules, there's nothing that can be done (linesmen can't call minors...unless the ref wants to stretch the rulebook and go to a misconduct).

Best case scenario, one ref calls interference, and no goal is scored.

[DKCanada]

What bush league are you referring to? lol

[wildcardcis]

Junior High Level. Bush league is right! (Wonder what the officials thought had happened to the goalie's stick?)

--Frank

[jicecone]

This is beyond comprehension. How does this happen in a rink and no official notices. How? Unless you had the most incompetent officials in the world, how does this happen? What is missing from this story?

Jr High?

For this to happen the other team would only have had 3 players in the action end. You gonna tell me NO official would have noticed two of the players going the other way?

What is the whole story???????????????????????

[wildcardcis]

The story is correct as it is. The officials didn't see it. There were two players "behind" at one end as the action moved away down the ice. They grabbed the stick, pulled it away, skated it (quickly) over to their bench and tossed it to their bench, then joined the action at the other end. The whole thing only took a few seconds and I suppose most people were following the action at the other end of the ice, where the puck was. As I say, the goalie was screaming that they had stolen his stick, as were the fans.

When the action returned to that end, the goalie had no stick. There was really no other possible explanation for why he had no stick other than the one he said ... that the other team had taken it! What could have happened to it? The goalie threw it over the wall? The goalie's team took it over to their bench?

Anyway, the offended team decided not to play any more in that environment.