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Not The Way You Want To Lose A Game
by Paul on 11/05/09 at 07:47 AM ET
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from Razor With An Edge,
The new World’s Worst Way to Lose a Hockey Game is to outshoot the opponent 40-22, surrender the lead in the final minute, have a phantom delay of game penalty called on your defenseman in overtime and then allow the game winner on the ensuing 4 on 3 powerplay.
What a steaming, feces-encrusted way to decide a hockey game.
Sure refs are human and they make mistakes, but seriously!? If you watch the replay one of the two refs was just 5 or 6 feet away from Grossman when he allegedly shot the puck out of play from behind his own blueline. If the guy is so incompetent that he can’t make a proper judgment on a play like that - a call that could potentially decide the game – then he probably should be in a different vocation.
Do remember a delay of game can be called from anywhere on the ice, not just from the defensive zone. In this instance, I think the refs just missed the call, since I don’t think Grossman deliberately shot the puck out of play.
added 11:15am, Video of the OT goal by the Flames followed by the delay of game call can be watched below…
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It was absolutely a missed call. I’d support replay in instances like that. I doubt the guys calling the penalty were doing it under the impression the he intentionally put it out of play, so they must have been calling it thinking it was of the automatic variety based on where the puck was.
I know the rulebook does not clearly state whether it matters if the player or the puck is in the defensive zone, but every other similar rule in the book is taken from where the puck is, so it would stand to reason that since the puck was in the neutral zone, it was a bad call.
Plays like this and with goalies handling the puck in the no-no-zone outside the trapezoid should be reviewable. It doesn’t take but thirty seconds to get that call right. Nobody in Dallas’ organization will say that cost them the extra point in OT since they had plenty of opportunities to win it and failed, but that’s a badly missed call that did affect the outcome.
Posted by J.J. from Kansas on 11/05/09 at 09:17 AM ET
Added video of the play and OT goal if you are following by email notification.
Posted by Paul from Motown Area on 11/05/09 at 11:17 AM ET
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Well said!
Posted by w2j2 on 11/05/09 at 08:49 AM ET