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Originally Posted by GioforPM
The rule says "initiate contact, indidental or otherwise". It's still goalie interference if you can show you started contact which impedes the goalie. It also can be "regular" interference on the player you push.
In this case I thinkit's arguable that Swayman could never have saved the goal. It's also arguable that the ref should have blown the play dead because Bennett interfered when he shoved a defender away and that guy could have made a play.
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Thanks.
I think the NHL's problem is defining what is goalie interference and what is not. This is important because it determines what is reviewable or not. To turn a non-call into a regular 2 minute call is not reviewable.
So Bennett shoving the the defender to get the puck, does it matter that the defender falls into the goalie? Does the result turn it into a different penalty thus making it reviewable?
Is a defender disadvantaged if he holds his ground enough not to fall into the goalie? If so, I would flop onto my goalie every time.