[You Need a Thneed]

Originally Posted by Robbob

Have you seen a video where it is conclusive knee on knee. Only thing I have seen is from the potato camera from the far end of the rink. To me it look like Gio is moving laterally and the shin makes contact. The ref that called the penalty was right there and it wasn't kneeing.

As I said above, the collision appears to be just below the knee for both players.

And Kneeing is usually when a play sticks out his knee - which Giordano doesn’t do. Gio sticks out his leg, but his knee does not move relative to Koivu.