Goaltender interference is a penalty and offensive in ice hockey whereby a player is found in the goal crease when a goalie is establishing their position in the same area. Ice hockey, often referred to simply as hockey, is a team Sport played on Ice.
Under the NHL rule book (# 78), this will result in a minor penalty to the offending player and goal being disallowed if the player a scored upon as a result of being in the goal crease. The National Hockey League ( NHL) is a professional Ice hockey league composed of 30 teams in North America