It's convoluted but ultimately simple. You can't blow play dead because if team A thinks they scored but didn't (the officials are not sure), and team B goes on to score the Cup winning goal, then they may have been denied a championship because of a bad call/play blown dead. In other words if the play is reviewed (team A) and the puck did not go in the net, then team B wins.
That's why you let the play go until a whistle blows the play dead as per usual. If a goal was scored but missed on the ice then everything after that has to be nullified if the review shows goal.
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