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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
Refs told Gallant on the ice the call was a crosscheck to the face.
They called a crosscheck to the face.
They botched the call. End of story.
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It doesn't matter if he hit the face or not. Not even a little bit.
It's really quite simple:
1) Was there a crosscheck? Yes. Very, very obviously.
2) Did a player get injured because of the crosscheck? Yes. It was a bit coincidental, but without the crosscheck the injury doesn't happen.
Did the ref think it was a crosscheck to the face that somehow directly caused the injury? Possibly. But it's still the correct call IMO, and at the very least a defendable call.
Your point about a crosscheck to the face at worst means the refs only got it right by accident (and even that is stretching it a bit), which I don't think is the interesting part of what really was a pretty epic comeback.
It doesn't matter if the refs saw it exactly right, as long as they saw the key parts. Which are the crosscheck and the injury.