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Originally Posted by Calgary14
I may have missed this - why did Tkachuk get a penalty for knocking the puck out of the air when he was on the bench and it was already going out of play?
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Because you can't play the puck from the bench and it was technically still in play while it was in the air, even if it wasn't over the plane of the ice.
We're just lucky it wasn't a 5 on 3 to both Backlund and Tkachuk.