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Looking At OT Penalties
by Paul on 05/06/08 at 06:57 AM ET
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from Dan Daly of the Washington Times,
Caps owner Ted Leonsis, still binding his wounds after the loss to Philadelphia, isn’t entirely supportive of the NHL’s new penal code. “I think in OT of [the] playoffs there should only be penalties that impede a goal being scored. No ticky-tack calls,” old school Ted said in an e-mail yesterday.
He’s hardly the only one who holds that opinion. Indeed, the officials themselves seem torn between The Way Hockey Used To Be and The Way The Board Of Governors Wants It To Be. In the Dallas-San Jose finale, for instance, they went more than an entire game — 70 minutes, 52 seconds, to be exact — without sending anybody to the box. Then they called hooking against the Stars’ Nicklas Grossman in the third OT and tripping against Campbell in the fourth. San Jose couldn’t cash in on its power play, but Dallas (or rather, Brenden Morrow) did.
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Wrong wrong wrong wrong wrong!
The whole point of the post-lockout rules is to prevent the interference with players away from the puck that characterized the rise of defensive hockey in the 90’s.
Anytime you ask the refs to start determining when and when not to make calls, you open a Pandora’s Box.
Posted by The Forechecker from Nashville on 05/06/08 at 06:56 AM ET