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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Yeah I don't think it's bias, it's just incompetence.
The issue is that this type of thing makes sports less fun for fans. And improvements in things like reply technology are shining more of a spotlight on it.
It is true that the better team won the series. But it is irrelevant to this discussion. At a critical moment in the series the wrong call was made.
The most damning evidence is the large number of goals people can find where the goal was similar or even more of a kick, and it counted.
That's what the NHL should have to explain. How can those count and this one not?
You want officials to have minimum influence on an outcome. Last night they had a massive one. And that's failure on the NHL's part.
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While I was shocked that the goal was overturned, anytime you have to go to NHL replay I feel fans should be conditioned to know that any and every outcome is possible. While the rulebook exists, it seems that interpretation of rules can vary from game to game, person to person especially with rules like this where kicking motion is something that's subjective. I feel the only way to eliminate controversies like this is to simply allow any and all goals off skates as it's the grey area rules that ruin the experience for fans that just want to see games called fairly. Thousands of Flames fans are asking themselves why that goal was overturned when the league has allowed more egregious kicking motions to stand as goals and that's a bad thing for the NHL.