As the Montreal Canadiens and Martin St. Louis came into Tampa Bay, we saw plenty of action from big goals, to huge hit from Anderson to Cernak and one of the weirdest goals I can honestly say, I have never seen anything like! After a shot on goal, the whistle never went and while almost everyone in the building thought the play was dead, it was still live and the Canadiens took advantage scoring an insane goal! In a New Years Eve showdown, this game was a fun one and I cover it all in todays NHL hockey video!
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It's a certainly a controversial one but what are your thoughts?
nice goal lol
I might be wrong but, isn't the ref supposed to blow the whistle if he loses sight of the puck?
This is exactly why the NHL is a joke. Refs are shit.
See the ref moving is hand, kinda hiding it. Where is his big mouth. Good at it every other time. Come on man.
4:02 Toronto Mayor Rob Ford is alive 😮
Hey! Let's hope this gets DJs banned from hockey arenas! Useless bast…..
I had something similar happen in youth hockey. We heard a whistle blow, and we stopped playing, but the opposing player didn't and scored.
I dont mind the goal but the subtle hand guesture to keep playing was sketch even the other linesman thought it was dead they moved up the ice strange
The NHL is now 1000% compromised now that legalized gambling is wide-spread. It's OBVIOUS after the rash of comically ridiculous calls in ALL major sports right now that the fix is in. The NHL is corrupt to the core so save your money, suckers. They can call and do ANYTHING they want to now to make sure the bookies are making their lines.
for some reason many pro athletes forget lessons drilled into them in peewees. play to the whistle is among the most common in all sports.
whoa dude that was a shoulder, to chest killer blow, clean hit but nasty, not shoulder to shoulder like you mentioned, back in my day charging was only if the hitter took a couple strides before contact, he was gliding before contact, much before contact…tho the rule may have been/obviously has been, updated??? would make Don Cherry's Rock 'em Sock 'em tho eh–hehehe still I understand it looked nasty enough, guy caught with his head down tho so it's on him-and he was put down–Damn! I get now watching that empty netter, no Tampa player anywhere near the net, alot of heated discussion about it, but yeah no one around to pressure, no reason to stop play, the spark that lit Tampa's A$$ tho, so grain of Montreal steak spice and all… ;p Happy New Year man!
i was listening to this and it was crazyyyyyy
Yes. You always play to the whistle. However, you can also argue that the ref delayed that whistle longer than usual. And then the blatant signal to the goalie and defenseman to continue play is highly suspicious. Someone check his betting history…
This sorta happened to Ottawa last year, to Mads Søgaard. Except it wasn’t a 200 foot goal.
Mads covered the puck, everyone stopped playing, he lifted his hand, thinking the whistle had gone. But the whistle never went. Even though he covered it for a good 3-5 mississippis while opposing players were on him.
So the other team whacked the loose puck into the net. And it was deemed a good goal. The whistle had indeed never been blown.
Have you ever heard of “intent to blow the whistle”?
It’s a dumb rule because it has overturned goals before. And this play is EXACTLY why it’s a dumb rule. Guys are taught to play until they hear the whistle and if a ref has the damn thing in his mouth for 5 seconds WHERE/WHEN was the intent???
The rule needs to be changed and the fact that this goal stood (rightfully so in my opinion) is the exact reason why.
The role of officials is to keep the game fair, we see that the linesman is skating to retrieve the puck for the faceoff, instead of that finger sign the ref should have screamed not dead or give the penalty. As it is, Montembeault kept the puck like 4 seconds, the ref gave him a personal sign while Tampa players, some Habs players, a linesman stopped acting as it was a live play. Refs need to stop acting as the main characters and just fully do their job.
You gotta keep your head in the game….
I’ve been watching hockey for at 5 decades and I’ve never seen a goal like that.
The shady thing is the ref that didn't blow the whistle motions to play on only to the the Montreal players with a down low hand motion, almost like he didn't want to alert to the Lightning that the play was live.
kinda weird that a play isn't blown dead when the whistle in the ref's mouth but could be blown dead when the whistle is nowhere near the ref's mouth
Love the Bolts, but the refs didn't whistle and the goalie by rules of the game has the chance to either freeze it or play it, so you can get mad at the call, but it's still the right call.
Maybe this is a sign that we should finally stop attaching a DJ to everything. Look what happened in the 90's. Limp Bizkit.
Don't put your whistle in your mouth and make believe you are stopping play. Then when the arena music starts you signal to the goalie to play the puck. Horrible officiating.