NLL announces rule changes for 2007 season

[Sonny]

http://www.collegelax.us/news.php?action=fullnews&id=945

[OAKS]

In addition to addressing player safety, the league also passed rule changes involving goal scoring and penalty shots. Players will now be able to score a goal on a shot taken from behind the net. A player scoring on a shot from behind the net must remain outside of the crease area when the shot is taken, and the shot must not make contact with the goaltender or the goaltender’s stick (think of the shot as a ‘swish’ or ‘nothing but net’ in basketball terms).

A good improvement, but I still think that if a player's good enough to bank a shot off a goalie's back or helmet or something that (or has the cajones to try it if he's not that good), then the goal should count. Is it for the saftey of the goalie to not allow it? They regularly take harder shots than those they'd see in close and those marshmallow pads just seem to suck up anything.

[Jolly Roger]

I think most of the padding is in the front. The backs of their arms and legs would be vulnerable from behind. The helmets are less protective from behind as well.