Comments on: Burrows’ controversial shootout move legal, says ex-ref Fraser

By: elvispocomo

elvispocomo — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 06:51:21 +0000

@kitshky: thank you, someone got it. I am curious why the delay when we never really see that, but hardly anything so major as to call shenanigans.

The prior clock incident mentioned was a mistake, and the explanation clearly a horrible attempt at trying to sound confident and avoid criticism. They should have lost that game and as close as they were to missing the playoffs, it might have been enough to change them from SC champs, to 9th in the West.

By: ron05342

ron05342 — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 05:14:18 +0000

@kitshky: Actually, I don’t see how “the timekeepers in LA are hardly above repute” bootstraps up to “the refs would be trying to ice him out.” Maybe you can explain it to me.

I’m thinking that the “obvious crack” about the timekeeping is just about being a sore loser from last season.

By: comeonnowguys

comeonnowguys — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 04:54:07 +0000

Wouldn’t it ice the goalie more than the scorer? I’m not sure I see the benefit.

By: kitshky

kitshky — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:26:57 +0000

This has already been resolved a thousand times over with every spin-o-rama shootout goal…

The puck doesn’t have to technically be moving forward, the puck is deemed to be continuing forward unless either the forward offensive movement of the shooter has ceased or the defensive player is the one that physically stops forward motion.

By: kitshky

kitshky — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:23:29 +0000

@ron05342 I guess some posters still overreact to an obvious crack that is there simply to underscore the bigger point of his comment that had nothing to do with the timekeeping at the game….

By: macjacmccoy

macjacmccoy — Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:06:31 +0000

actually it wasnt legal. The puck didnt continuously go toward the goalie. Everything was fine during the spin and right after the spin but when he went for that last deke he pulled the puck back which should have stopped the attempt right then.

By: stakex

stakex — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:32:45 +0000

When watched from the first angle, its clear the puck actually does keeps moving… and I really don’t see anything wrong with the shot to be honest.

Look, it might not be fair for the goalie… but the shootout is suppose to be a spectacle. So why not allow guys to try funky things like this? It was a terrible attempt, and I have no idea why Quick didn’t simply poke check it away, but it might do the shootout some good to see more creativity.

By: elvispocomo

elvispocomo — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:32:29 +0000

And yet the clock still had to ‘reclibrate the coulombs’ as Halford mentioned in the game I was referring to that ensured the Kings won.

By: pandorasdadca

pandorasdadca — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 22:01:33 +0000

He missed anyway! Move on. The puck stopped and he bobbled it.

By: salmon90

salmon90 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:51:28 +0000

Can you get any lazier? At least put some effort into your Canuck bashing. If it’s referring to our subpar shootout performers then yes you have a point. Please expand.

By: buddysguys

buddysguys — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:09:27 +0000

looks like the puck stopped to me.

By: sw19womble

sw19womble — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:44:36 +0000

Typical Canucks

By: ron05342

ron05342 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:34:49 +0000

I guess some posters still didn’t get the memo: the timekeepers are employed by the NHL, not the teams.

By: joshuakorr

joshuakorr — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:29:23 +0000

The puck looks like it stopped when Burrows spun around, hard to tell for sure from the angle showed.

By: Mike Halford

Mike Halford — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:21:06 +0000

I heard they had to recalibrate the coulombs.

By: elvispocomo

elvispocomo — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:17:37 +0000

I’m more curious as to why there was such a long delay for Burrows to be able to shoot? Especially after LA had already hole once. Not that the refs would be trying to ice him out, like a timeout before a field goal attempt, but the timekeepers in LA are hardly above repute. It’s not like they needed to fix the time on the clock or anything.