Brandon Hagel knocked the puck away from his body with a glove, and the Tampa Bay Lightning ended up keeping possession and scoring as a result. A review took the goal away as it was deemed to be a hand pass. Did they get it right?
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I guess Cooper just wanted to donate 25k to the emergency fund with his post game comments haha. I wasn't sure on the full wording and hadn't seen someone post it, thanks as always Tough Call!
Two things, it looks like the puck bounced off his arm before the his arm starts moving. And it looked to me like the other player had to make a change of direction to receive the puck, that doesn't sound so much like it was directed too the player
"In the opinion of on ice officials". On ice officials opinion was it wasnt a hand pass, until Toronto buzzed in. Tough way to take a goal away.
I think it hit him more than it was a hand pass and he would have played the puck if he wasn't hooked/held then it was played by another player. Stupid rule that they can invalidate a goal based on 1 piece of the puzzle but not include the infraction by the pens player
Honestly this is as bad as the “Dez caught it” call change. Bs man.
Everyone is crying about this even though these reviews happen all the time. Yeah it sucks it got wiped but the precedent is if a team gain's possession off the hand "pass" it's always blown dead or brought back.
The closest thing that I have seen from any angle is that the puck hit his right arm and he flailed towards the puck with his left arm as a reaction to protect himself but missed the puck. In your zoomed in replay, which I appreciate seeing, it shows the puck moving off of his right ARM away from his body and it appears that his left HAND never touched it.
There isn’t even a clear angle of it hitting his glove to overturn it and needs to open hand which again isn’t clear in the video