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Originally Posted by Property Manager DB
Puck was definitely an inch or two off the ice.
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lol. If you think that's an inch or two, I don't know what to tell you.
More importantly though...
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Originally Posted by HartAttack
What I saw was the puck flat (or close to) sliding along the ice until it hits Andersen's pad. At that point the puck deflects off his pad, up into the air. The freeze frames we are seeing are after it hits the pad. The puck was in.
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Exactly this. The shot from behind Bennett shows conclusively that the puck is on the ice. If you watch the video of it hitting the pad and then freeze-framing, it clearly hits the pad and is coming back out at the moment of the freeze-frame. It is AFTER hitting the pad that the puck is up in the air.
And it isn't anywhere near an inch in the air, even at that.
Edit: to those of you that claim that you can see an inch of his pad under the puck, that is the toe of the pad, IN FRONT of the puck. It is also an illusion of the angle. There isn't an inch of pad under the puck.
Look at the shot from behind Bennett of the puck on the ice, then ask yourself how you think it is an inch off the ice at the moment that it hits the pad. After? Sure. But not at contact.