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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
I don't understand what you are arguing. If he recovered it really doesn't matter what happens seconds earlier and there's certainly no way Ryan is going to get a penalty for swiping at his stick. I've never seen a player get a penalty for jamming a goaltenders pad into the net when the puck is on the line. We don't need the NHL to get into over complication like the NFL did with what's a catch and not a catch. If a player runs into a goaltender it's a penalty but ticky tacky stuff like swiping at a stick should not be.
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I'm not arguing anything, I'm just curious where people stand on what they think goaltender interference is or should be. As you noted, we don't know what's going on in the heads of the officials, the coaches are throwing hail marys out, and fans bite their nails regardless of how it looks because no one seems to know what the rules are.
The way I'm reading it, it seems like Ryan swatting at Mrazek's stick matches a disallowed goal for interference and, yes, possibly a penalty. I'm not arguing that it should be a penalty, or even called back, but that's the way it's written IMO. It doesn't say anything about a goalie being able to "reset" being a negating factor. So what should the ref be calling? They've obviously worded these rules very carefully, why aren't the refs following them? If they don't think they should be rules, why aren't they being changed? (not just this, we all know the issues of slashing and cross-checking, etc...)
There are a lot of rules that apply to goaltenders than don't to other players. Whats the difference between this and the ol' hitting the knob of the goalies stick? Burrows used to do that all the time and we hated it.