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Originally Posted by VANFLAMESFAN
That was a different kind of play. Different ruling.
Forsberg 100% closed hand on the puck. But that’s a penalty. Not a ‘missed stoppage’. You can’t review a missed penalty. You can’t overturn a goal because of a missed penalty.
So when the review happened for a missed stoppage. They see Forsberg using his glove to put the puck over the net, but Weegar then played the puck to the Nashville player. That playing of the puck negated the hand touch.
There’s a distinction to be made between missed penalty and missed stoppage. Missed stoppage is high stick, puck in netting, glove pass. Not missed puck in closed glove because that’s a penalty.
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In that case, it was both, a missed closing the hand penalty, followed by a missed stoppage for a hand pass. The hand pass was not a direct result of closing the hand on the puck, it was a subsequent, independent action. If it was just the missed closing the hand penalty but he did not subsequently use his hand to direct the puck to give his team an advantage, the league would have been justified in saying that there was no missed stoppage. Speaking of which, technically, a missed penalty call before the offending team scores IS ALWAYS a missed stoppage, because if a penalty had been called, a stoppage would have occurred before the goal was scored.