Tavares lifted his stick partway – the line I always hear is that you are responsible for your stick at all times though, so I don’t know how that wouldn’t still apply here. It seems Pinto tries lifting it out of the way of Tavares stick after the stick lift. I get why the refs didn’t call it, but that is a serious missed call for McCabe in back to back games. I don’t know what he could do differently to earn those calls.
The ref obviously thought that it was either Tavares' stick that hit McCabe, or that Tavares caused Pinto's stick to ride up into Mccabe's face. It may not be the right call, but other than to see it in slow-mo, it's very diificult to see what actually transpired in realtime.
5 Comments
tavares lifted the stick into his face, good no call i think
Tavares lifted his stick partway – the line I always hear is that you are responsible for your stick at all times though, so I don’t know how that wouldn’t still apply here. It seems Pinto tries lifting it out of the way of Tavares stick after the stick lift. I get why the refs didn’t call it, but that is a serious missed call for McCabe in back to back games. I don’t know what he could do differently to earn those calls.
good no call, the ref even pointed and probably said "it was your own guy" when McCabe looked at him.
Well it was no call because Tavares lifted Pinto's stick into his own guys' face.
The ref obviously thought that it was either Tavares' stick that hit McCabe, or that Tavares caused Pinto's stick to ride up into Mccabe's face. It may not be the right call, but other than to see it in slow-mo, it's very diificult to see what actually transpired in realtime.