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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The difficulty is that while Landeskog is clearly off side when the puck enters, if he touches the blue line, then he's deemed to have tagged up. So long as nobody else entered the zone before he did so (and it seems nobody had), the play should have been on side.
Now, one of the theories about the off-side rule is that it does say a player who intends to leave the ice rather than tag up is off side until he steps completely off the playing surface. There is, however, no indication that this caveat negates the usual requirement to tag up. If it does, then the call was correct. But we don't know, and that's not the explanation the league used. The explanation they gave was that Landeskog failed to tag-up, and there is no way on earth the video review could definitively make that claim.
I'm glad the Avs lost, but that was the wrong call.
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If he tagged up with a toe but then moved the toe back in before the puck crosses, he's offside again, and I think that's what they were saying. So the pic with the inset showing the puck already across isn't the right one. You need the pic from right when the puck enters.
I still think the fact there were 6 guys on the ice, though not a proper basis for overturning a call, may have influenced their decision making.