Comments on: About that controversial OT faceoff penalty from the Minnesota-Nashville game…

By: lostpuppysyndrome

lostpuppysyndrome — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:42:09 +0000

*to be deliberate. Typo. The curse of the blazing fingers.

By: lostpuppysyndrome

lostpuppysyndrome — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 14:41:33 +0000

Kind of, but it’s one of those instances where slow-motion exaggerates an incident. It’s like those hits where at regular speed, there’s no way a player could have avoided kneeing a guy or hitting him in the head. The same applies here, and the faceoff moved way too quickly for that too be deliberate.

By: e3zy

e3zy — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 05:11:39 +0000

Don’t shoot me or anything, but it seems legit based on his left hand. His hand slows down and then speeds up to indicate that it was not momentum from the faceoff movement, and that he knew what he was doing.

By: scionofflame

scionofflame — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 03:10:52 +0000

Considering the fact that you could argue this penalty cost us the game…I think it should be discussed.

Gaustad had his gloves FIRMLY on the stick. They never left while he was trying to win it. He was pulling back on it and if there was glove contact, I don’t think it was intentional. Besides, what does he do? Raise his stick to bat the bouncing puck out of the air and risk cracking Granlund in the face for a high stick? Not likely.

He can’t get another swipe at it anyways because it bounces away from him. Minnesota won the faceoff. So why not just leave it at that?

The drop was bad. The ruling was stupid. But the game is done, so we get to carry on and leave with a point. Them’s the breaks.

By: mpops86

mpops86 — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:26:58 +0000

Beagle was guilty of using his hand all season last year.

How about Marchand, who was called for a penalty for using his hand about 4 feet from the dot?

By: lordfletcher

lordfletcher — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 02:25:29 +0000

I should have used softer rather than “soft”.

By: stakex

stakex — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 00:06:14 +0000

The problem here is that refs aren’t really suppose to take “spirit and intent” into account when making a call… they are suppose to call it as its writen in the rule book. In this case, the rules do not clarify if accidental contact (if it was accidental, sure doesn’t look like it was) is to be ignored by the refs. If thats how its suppose to be, thats how its should be writen.

With that said this is simply an idiotic rule, and changing it after so many years of playing without it makes no sense at all.

By: einjzmolf

einjzmolf — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:25:19 +0000

Okay, now this is getting pathetic. Just because the NFL got rid of their lingerie league officials doesn’t mean the NHL should’ve given them jobs. I’ve seen way too many terrible calls already this season, some of them leading to an altered result to a game (such as this one). The NHL needs to refine these new rules and refine the official’s brains they’re trying to stuff them in, because clearly it’s not getting through to them.

By: mayortito

mayortito — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:19:40 +0000

looks like the linesman was practicing for a game of quarters.

By: hockeyflow33

hockeyflow33 — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 23:17:06 +0000

Maybe in mite games with 12 year old refs they drop the puck but high level linesman do indeed throw the puck on the ice. Ideally, it should land flat and stay but that doesn’t happen everytime.

By: lordfletcher

lordfletcher — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 22:22:32 +0000

I wasn’t able to see the game but caught the highlights… Couldn’t agree more about the linesman, what a horrid drop. I can’t comprehend why he chucked the puck at the ice instead of a nice, flat soft drop… and on top of all that, it was a terrible call that ended up costing the Preds at a fair chance for the last point.

As a Wild fan, i’ll take what I can get but a crap call and overall job by the zebra!!!!

By: misterchainbluelightning

misterchainbluelightning — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 21:58:50 +0000

Dear stupid NHL linesman, drop the F’ing puck don’t whip it at the ice seeing how high you can bounce it.