[McG]

What’s funny here is that the blame is actually on Perry. The intent is clear; stop the goalie from making a save. Maybe the goalie is screened, maybe a deflection, maybe a rebound…but all in its to prevent the goalie from being successful. And it’s totally legit within the rules. Perry isn’t along the boards or behind the net because generally speaking, those don’t prevent the goalie being successful.

Was it intentional on being in the blue paint or accidental? It’s on Perry for asking the referees to make the call. He was counting on the home ice advantage, the Corey Perry effect, the northern lights, anything that would give the referees pause. And he was right actually with that gamble…the goal was given and without the challenge, it would have counted.

On review though, it’s called back. It must really grate the mouth breathers that they finally, finally were able to acquire noted crapweasel and oilers killer Perry (“but he’s okay now because he’s our crapweasel”) and they can’t get the calls that he was literally brought in for.

On the offside, I remember the Peter puck episode explaining the rules and the offside rule had a player sitting in a chair in front of the opponent’s net…reading a newspaper and basically swatting the puck in when it came to him. I feel that the oilers and the unwashed would like Mavi to be able to float around the offensive zone and never leave it.

I bet Mavi would love that too; he doesn’t seem to like the inconvenience of back checking. Come to think of it…is that digging in?