That’s a game-winning goal late in a hockey game and, to me, it’s just unacceptable.” Palmieri did make brief contact with Blue Jackets goalie Elvis Merzlikins before settling way out of the ...

That has opened the door to all sorts of interpretation. NHL senior director of hockey ops Kay Whitmore, a retired goalie like Roy, called it “a convoluted rule.” Through the first 1,048 ...