Quote:
Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
No, but it can be deemed a major based on the severity of the contact. (Rule 59.3).
But the stick didn’t cause the injury. The unfortunate off balance fall to the ice after being crosschecked backwards and having Statsny push him over causes the injury.
|
The force of the stick causes the fall which causes the injury. It's semantics, and there is no consensus that it was the right or wrong call. You can keep stating that it is nothing but a tiny little push, but obviously not everyone agrees with that, and I see it as a really bad decision by Eakin, and a really bad result for Pavelski. The cross check is not within the rules of the game, and if this major penalty was called during the regular season there would have been virtually no talk about it. The talk is due to Vegas using this extended PK to royally crap the bed in such a tremendous way that no one has ever even seen before.