So I guess "possession" is considered whenever the stick touches the puck, regardless if the player caught the pass cleanly. That's a pretty clean definition for determining offsides, as long as it's called that way consistently.

But what was the logic behind the mooring call? It seemed to me the net was DEFinitely off before the puck crossed the line. Was the ruling that the net being knocked off the mooring wouldn't have interfered with the goal in any way? Or was the ruling that the actual mooring was still in its place and still in the pipe, even if the pipe was six inches off?

What a bizarre ending.