Stanley Cup Playoffs

Another double OT with the Jets and Preds. A big "whew" for the Nashville fans.
Only the third loss for Winnepeg in the last eighteen games. On to Canada 'eh.

 

I had the feeling that if Nashville lost that game last night, they were done. It's still going to be one hell of a battle for them. I had not watched the Jets play once during the regular season so I really didn't know much about them. They are the real deal and just never quit. And they are without as doubt the biggest, most physical team going. Fun to watch for sure.

 

Question:

Don't know who saw the Bruins/Bolts game but Rask shit a skate blade fending off a seige and before the next onslaught tried to get a ref 's attention to the problem. How is a "goalie" of all players supposed to get subbed for in the middle of shit happening? A regular skater can for sure but switching goalies with equipment failure is no easy function. Rules say goalie is no exception. Just kinda strange.

 

This is no rule that the refs have to stop play for an equipment malfunction, other than for a safety issue, i.e goalie mask.

 

I guess I don't know what a goal is anymore.

 

I can understand what the boys in Toronto were probably looking at. The neophyte says, "I see white between the puck and the goal line". A hard core hockey person would say, "that ain't white, it's snow on the edge of the puck".

(note: the fact that the Pens are my least favorite team in the NHL in no way influenced the above statement)

 

Agreed. Making it inconclusive so as not to overturn the original call on the ice of "no goal".

 

look to the left of the vertical red strip, and it was clearly in! Laces out, Dan!

 

Just as Murray wasn't interfered with right before a goal was scored, or Dumolin didn't take a cheap shot elbow straight to the head with the referee looking right at him?

 

Pens-Capitals game yesterday. League doesn't want Pens to 3-peat

 

I can't disagree with you on either of those statements.

 

i've been playing hockey for 22 years, including college puck. That's a goal.


But, I'm also a pens fan so that may influence my stand on the subject.

 

I played for 40 years, including 18 years as a USA Hockey Level 3 coach of AA and High School.


NO GOAL

 

I am not a Pens fan at all, but I would call that a goal. I just watched the replay. That sucks, but it happens. That picture doesn't it show it well but slow down the replay. It crossed the line at some point. But I get that because it couldn't be clearly seen is why it was no goal.

 

OK, I've been busting balls here earlier so I'll confess...

I was replacing the clutch perch on my FZ during the game so I was in and out of the shop every couple of minutes. I heard some loud noise from the game so I ran in to see what had happened. They were showing the replay for the first time and I said to myself, "shit, that's a goal for sure' while thinking here goes Washington on their steady decent once again just like every other year. I was shocked when I came back about 5 minutes later to see that no goal was awarded.

But hell if I'm going to say something positive about the Penguins

 

I like to think I said something Negative about the Refs and officials in Toronto. Please do not take that as a positive statement about the Pens..