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Originally Posted by stemit14
I'm confused by the ref just changing his mind on the too many men call after he talked to sedin. I was at the game and the whole crowd saw it... It was definitely too many men and the ref caught it. Literally the whistle blew and you could count 7 Canucks on the ice at that moment.
I know it can be considered not to be too many men if the other team shoots the puck at them while changing and it hits them in the leg but that wasn't the case here... The Canuck had possession of the puck on his stick just a few feet away from the group of 5 other guys. I know the refs were bad tonight but that is just unreal.
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No it was the right call to overturn it.
The 1 defenceman was changing, so the new player was on the ice at the same time as the man going off. However it was a forward that touched the puck, Linden Vey, not either of the defencemen involving in the line change.
Here's the rule:
When a player is retiring from the ice surface and is within the five foot (5’) limit of his players’ bench, and his substitute is on the ice, then the retiring player shall be considered off the ice for the purpose of Rule 70 – Leaving Bench.
If in the course of making a substitution, either the player entering the game or the player retiring from the ice surface plays the puck with his stick, skates or hands or who checks or makes any physical contact with an opposing player while either the player entering the game or the retiring player is actually on the ice, then the infraction of “too many men on the ice” will be called.
So of the 2 players that were changing, neither was involved in the play. It just looked like it at first glance.