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Originally Posted by Captain_Obvious
No, he wasn't. To call that a shove couldn't be more of a stretch. Gagner started out by leaning in to Scuderi.
Kerry Fraser broke it down nicely:
What you should see is that Scuderi approached Gagner from more of a side angle, with contact made to the hip area in an effort to move the Oilers forward laterally and away from his goalkeeper. The immediate pushback reaction from Gagner was to drive forward toward Quick as demonstrated with his upper-body posture bent at the waist in a forward motion, along with a half stride ahead into the crease. Gagner's reaction to the contact by Scuderi does not constitute making a reasonable effort to avoid such contact (with Quick) as highlighted in the rule above. http://www.tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=414481
With the dramatic last second goal by Yakapov I really fail to see why some of you are just unable to accept the right call was made on the ice for the disallowed goal. |
To be honest I wasn't that upset about the call. Lots of calls have been made like that. What we're really talking about is the 'Celly' ...stupid term. Anyways like I said the kid got excited. It's refreshing to see them having fun instead of establishing revenue sharing. There's a story in the Edmonton Sun today about how much this kid loves the game. He lives at the rink. They have to make him leave. I'm proud of him.
As far as the garbage on the ice I agree that was low class.