And in the interest of not burying the lede, Birthday Bert came up huge.
Your game in 10:
1. It is a fair time to jump on a soapbox about this rule because both teams were equally hurt by it/benefitted from it (the Leafs in the first minute of the game, and the Avalanche late in the third): I could really do without delay-of-game penalties for pucks over the glass. It should be treated like icing — i.e. a defensive-zone draw for the offending team with no option to change.
We might see players hesitate a little less about going hard and high off the glass to get pucks out without the puck-over-glass rule, but we wouldn’t suddenly see a rash of players intentionally flipping it over the glass instead of down the ice with those rules in place.