BOCA RATON, Fla. — Cory Schneider might be the one goalie this season who hasn’t gotten caught up in a goalie interference debate. He should consider himself lucky because it’s been a bit of an epidemic.



Perhaps the first indication goalie interference was going to be this season’s hot-button issue came in October when Washington’s Jay Beagle skated in front of Martin Jones and made JUST enough contact with the Sharks goalie to make Peter DeBoer’s challenge a successful one.



That one caught people’s attention.



“I remember saying, ‘If that’s the standard, so be it. But it’d better be the standard,'” said one NHL source of that reversal. “Now, we’re all over the map.”



The debate has been picking up steam ever since. In all, there have been 170 challenges by coaches for goalie interference, according to the NHL’s hockey operations department. Those running...