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I had a pretty experience with this rule earlier this year.
It was the end of a tie game and we went into a shootout. The other team's final shooter comes up to try to save his team (my team was ahead 1-0 in the shootout). After a few dramatic circles around center ice, he readies himself a few strides behind the puck and takes off. In his haste, he bobbles the puck a bit, loses it, skates by it, which, in turn, allows the puck to make a full stop on the blue line. He stops abruptly, grabs the puck and hurries down the ice and fires a mean wrister in the, more or less, vacant net. I laughed and told both refs it was no goal. They agreed.
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