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Originally Posted by browna
Cowardly officiating is my guess.
Pospisil barley touched him and Kadri then got shoved into him.
The faceoff ended up in the Devils zone too.
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When I used to ref basketball (I coached when I taught school so sometimes we got drafted into doing that kind of thing) an older ref said "If you see something that looks wrong you blow the whistle and then figure out the infraction". I think that's what happened. They saw the goalie's head snap back from Pospisil, they saw Kadri fall into the goalie.
In most cases that actually works because you don't want a play continuing when there's been a foul. But here it didn't. Espeically since nothing that happens after the puck gets kicked through to Pospisil changes anything - it's not like Vanacek is anywhere near able to get back to the goal without Kadri around.
Although TBF, while Kadri did get tripped into Vanacek, I imagine like, say, Tkachuk, he didn't really mind.