Mikhail Sergachev thought he’d tied the game for the Lightning late in the second but the goal was immediately waved off by the official who claimed Anthony Cirelli interfered with goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky. This is what I’d have done.
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I have no idea what goaltender interference is and …. I have no damn idea about this one. But the rule need to be clarified in the off-season.
If you enter the crease before the puck, you take on all the risk of it being waved off.
This was the right call. Hell, my team lost a few goals with less contact in the regular season than this one, so I would have been pissed if it counted.
Really like this style of video where you give yourself 2 minutes and walk through it 👍
The call on the ice is arguably wrong. I don't think any of that contact made a difference. But, I suppose you're right, it has to be definitive to overturn the call on the ice, so that's a tough one
Anyway just wanted to say, love this series and the way you do it! I wish the NHL would do it like this. Bonus points if they released the reviews so we could actually understand the goalie interference rule nobody in the world knows
The NHL video rulebook makes it pretty clear that this is no goal. The contact is made inside the blue paint and it wasn’t due to the D pushing the offending player into the goalie.
The rulebook does have a provision that allows the incidental contact provided the goalie has a chance to reset themselves.
The puck goes in almost immediately after the contact is made. So the assumption will always be that it did make a difference.
When he went in the paint, he lost a lot of goodwill towards an overturn, I’m cool with light goalie contact outside of the paint(-beer league goalie), but the blue is his home…
Wrong call on every aspect
I’d say it’s more the impediment of the stick.
The stick fetches up on the leg of the player not allowing the goalie to make a full unhindered attempt to stop the puck forcing him to drop his stick in the end.
It was the contact on the stick that ruled it no goal, not the skate on skate.
There was zero contact