There was a pretty interesting situation in Wednesday night's Canucks-Rangers game that I received a few emails about. Here's a good take from Mike at Rangerland.net:

Everyone watching the game, including Gord Miller and Pierre McGuire on TSN, Kenny and Dave on the radio, and all of our board members watching on MSG thought that it was definitely a goal.  Bill McCreary and the Toronto crew respectfully disagreed.

As you can see in the clip, in the ensuing play before the the next stoppage Rozsival took yet another penalty, a cross-check.  The big question is whether the penalty would have counted if the goal had. Around here, we seemed to think that that Rozi’s penalty would have been wiped off the board, but Miller and McGuire said that it would have been kept on the scoresheet either way.  The idea being that a player shouldn’t just be able to crack someone in the skull on the chance that the call will be overturned later on.

Here's the relevant section from the NHL rulebook, Rule 78.6:

Any penalties signaled during the period of time between the apparent goal and the next stoppage of play shall be assessed in the normal manner, except when a minor penalty is to be assessed to the team scored upon, and is therefore nullified by the scoring of the goal.

Anyone have a good handle on this rule? It would appear, according to the explanation from the TSN folks, that since the Rangers were already shorthanded, if the goal counted, it would get a player already in the box out and put Rozsival in.