ECFF,
I’m going to drift into dangerous territory here ---- relying on my memory from 31 years ago rather than anything fact-based or backed up by a video clip. Although I wrote “Gilmour clearly pounced on” and it looked that way in real time to the point where they gave an assist in the arena and I followed up with “a clerical assist might have cost him”.......there’s something way in the deep recesses telling me that either Gilmour admitted he never touched the puck after the game (he rode Ellett off the puck and Patterson picked it up and shot it on his own) or we just noticed it when we checked afterwards out of curiosity (and the scorer did the same thing).
Very much like the video in post #167 of this thread where it appears Hawerchuk scored and the announcer goes on about it, but in reality Andrew McBain shoots the puck.
I just checked and the collector here who has over 50 full-game video of this season unfortunately doesn’t have this game on his list, so we might never find out. If I had to guess though, Gilmour probably didn’t get cheated on this one, not to say that never happened in other cases, especially in the pre-10 camera angles of every play days.
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