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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
OK, but then you get together and say that puck was frozen and wave it off, under intent to blow. Or if on ice officials can't or shouldn't make that call, there surely has to be a mechanism where the 'right' call is made.
Because the 'right' call on the play is no goal
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Sure, maybe. There's no rule that says you cannot push a player, any player, have them contact the puck and have the puck go in. A play like that happens all the time when a forward will drive a defender to the net, push him to the net, and have a puck deflect off of his leg. It's a goal. Perhaps the back ref clearly saw the puck by the goalies skate and didn't call it dead waiting for it to be covered by a glove or the defenseman. The D man gets there to late for that though. It sure didn't take much to jar the puck loose.
The right call, to me, was a dead puck but the refs never made a motion to call that. It was catch 22 once they made the first gaffe.