I think the call was, and why it took so long to rule, was to figure if the puck hitting Coleman's hand, gave the Flames an advantage ("gain an advantage" as noted in the rulebook above) that they wouldn't have had if it didn't hit his glove.
Would the Flames have retained possession if it didn't hit his glove, and the play continued as is, basically...so they had to go forward with the replay to see what happened after it hit his glove.
The puck didn't move that much so it's probably a very borderline call to figure out if the ongoing play was affected or not by the puck hitting the glove. But then it turns into a war roomjudgement call and the Flames, especially vs the Leafs, aren't winning any ref or war room judgement calls.
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