Panthers’ Bennett Scores After Shoving Bruins’ Coyle into Goalie
May 12, 2024: A game-tying goal from Florida Panthers forward Sam Bennett survived a coach’s challenge for goaltender interference after he shoved Boston’s Charlie Coyle into Bruins goaltender Jeremy Swayman.
“If a defending player has been pushed, shoved, or fouled by an attacking player so as to cause the defending player to come into contact with his own goalkeeper, such contact shall be deemed contact initiated by the attacking player for purposes of this rule, and if necessary a penalty assessed to the attacking player and if a goal is scored it would be disallowed.”
More on the play – and the rule – at Scouting the Refs: https://scoutingtherefs.com/2024/05/45238/panthers-bennett-scores-after-shoving-bruins-coyle-into-goalie/
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So we know NHL wants Florida in finals so who do they want in the western conference
Maybe – and it's a big maybe – the goal was allowed because at the time Coyle was pushed, the puck was already going through his legs. Replay may have figured he wasn't going to be able to make a play and Swayman wasn't going to recover in time 🤷🏿♂️
Again, it's a big maybe but that's the only thing I'm seeing.
This is bs
NOT a goal. Changed the whole series. Once again… why do we have replay if they don't correctly use it??
Just so everyone know Colin Cambell who is director of Ops for the NHL was in attendance and his son former bruin Gregory Cambell is assistantGM for the panthers just sayin
a good goal because it's fixed and the refs want florida to win in the new nhl.
Lol and Jon Cooper wasn't lying.
Who are the jokers in Toronto that view the replays .these guys should be suspended until they get their eyes checked. Regardless if its a push or shove. It still caused the Boston goal tender not to get himself back into position to actually attempt to make a save.must be DEI hires.shame on NHL..im a ranger fan so i have no bias to either of these 2 teams.just a fan. The NHL has to do a better job with on ice officials.that was a easy call.even for the casial fan.
Let off some steam, Bennett! 😀
It’s only absurd because the calls against Tampa were so much softer and they were overturned but this isn’t!?????? Where is the consistency !?!?
Goal shouldn’t have stood but this idea that the NHL is rigging it for the Panthers instead of setting up a BOSTON VS NEW YORK SEMIFINALS is absurd
This league is such a fucking joke lol
Good goal and 2 minute minor for Coyle embellishing
Boston didn’t get a shot on net the rest of the way. Eventually Florida would have won.
NHL and the referees should be embarrassed by this performance and review
Everybody hating on hockey, hating on the officials. That was a very very difficult call to make in real time. Everything was so fast and there’s so many guys in front of the net, and there was a scrimmage for the puck. The referees missed a call, there’s no doubt about it. It cannot be reversed on replay. A penalty cannot be called because of something that happened on a replay so without a crosschecking penalty that goal had to be allowed.
Textbook goalie interference. Shoved his own player into him.
Everybody’s going back-and-forth on this I don’t understand what is so difficult to understand. It happens in real time. Therefore, it was a very, very very difficult thing to pick up. Very few people were able to pick it up. If no goal is scored nobody would even be talking about it. It happens so quickly. Did you hear anybody in the arena or hear any of the players crying after the goal? It was called a goal. The only thing the refs could’ve done was rule it a no goal on the ice. And then they can play it by ear at that point as far as if they want to assess Sam Bennett, a penalty or not. However, it was deemed a goal. Once it’s called a goal this rule that people are putting out there completely gets thrown out and it has nothing to do with what happens next. The play gets challenged that has its own rule. It states that no player should be penalized based on a missed call. Once the referees saw on the replay that Sam Bennett made a cross check, there is nothing they can do about it. They can’t rule it a no goal. Because the only reason why that would not be a goal was because of Sam Bennetts cross check. If your own player goes into you
And a goal is scored you can rule it a no goal. After they rule it a no goal, they can decide if they wanna penalize Sam Bennett or not. But it was ruled a goal. Once it was ruled a goal, the NHL rulebook as far as initiation of contact by an offensive player into a defensive olayer gets thrown out. You cannot rule goalie interference. You’re not allowed to say Sam Bennett cross checked him therefore, it’s a no goal. I didn’t make the rules. It was clearly a penalty you can’t view the replay, see a penalty that caused a goal to happen. Rule it a no goal because of a penalty. If it was the other way around, and it was ruled a no goal on the ice. They don’t necessarily have to give Sam Bennett two minutes for crosschecking. Very very very very most likely they would, though. If it was ruled a no goal, Florida would’ve challenged. In Florida would’ve lost a challenge. However, they wouldn’t be unable to penalize Sam Bennett. But it happened the other way around. They called it a goal. They cannot take away the goal because of a penalty that happened that they missed on a replay.
Does B's stand for boston babies? Last year Flordia took your season, this year bostons manhood
something is not right with that decision
Clear cut interference
I seriously doubt Bennett even touched coyel let alone cross checked him hard. Coyel embellished it completely..
Unbelievable that this counted and is the difference in the game and series
His tap on the back didn't even move him. Coyle was going to end up there with that tap or not. It was Swayman who kicked out his leg for Coyle to trip over. Coyle was already in the crease.
Good goal.
It’s a little push. Probably should have been called, but everyone gets bad calls from time to time.
So what should the Bruins do about this and the Marchand punch? Jump Bennett in his first 3 shifts in the next game. What could be easier?
coyle was already in the crease ppl. he skated there between swayman and bennet by himself. so whether or not bennet checked him had no impact on swayman being able to stop that puck. he would not have been able to get there period. take your fan glasses off and try to look at the play objectively for your own sanity.
Florida owns Boston 🤣🤣🤣🤣
To be honest sway was already in a splits like position. I really don't think he could recover for that save anyways. I do think it still would have been a goal. To me it's a much tougher call than people are making it out to be. It's not a clear cut goalie interference cause they do take into consideration if the goalie would have been able to make that save if not for the guy getting bumped into him. Regardless Bennett is a menace to the Bruins. Should have had a 1 game suspension for that shot to Marchand but I guess you could call it poetic justice
Rangers fan here… No excuse for not making the call here. Clear as day.