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Originally Posted by GirlySports
I think we may be over-analyzing this. Why did the refs call it charging and not give a match penalty for intent to injure. I think this is where DOPS will have to go.
21.1 Match Penalty - A match penalty involves the suspension of a player for the balance of the game and the offender shall be ordered to the dressing room immediately. A match penalty shall be imposed on any player who deliberately attempts to injure or who deliberately injures an opponent in any manner
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I'm not sure the refs decision on match penalty or not matters much on a 2 goal game with 56 seconds left. They saw it full speed and probably didn't bother reviewing it, knowing the league would...
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The best thing to do to prevent a goal in that scenario would be to keep skating right into the post while trying to lift Evans' stick and bumping him at the same time as the net, dislodging it. The ref might judge that he dislodged it intentionally to prevent an inevitable goal, and award the goal, but that would have been worth a shot.
We were just talking about the charging rule. I just quoted it earlier on this page. I assume the reason you missed that is that you cannot, in fact, read. Which is unfortunate for you, but given that you made this post, not surprising. Get bent.
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I'm not sure how much difference an extra stride would have made since he was already at full speed. Speed skaters don't stride to the finish line, they stop stride short and stretch their leg. Same principle here would've been actually reaching with his stick.
As Evans brings the puck back across the goal line Scheifele's feet are already at the edge of the crease. He could have played the puck.
The NHL rulebook doesn't account for every single scenario. Charging may even be intentionally ambiguous for situations like this.