Maybe don't allow goals one and two to happen if you don't want to take your chances on the possibility of a backbreaking call. The refs didn't score those.
The icing on the cake was Ron and the panel fawning over Connor telling Draisatil 'let's go'. What a great human being, what a humanitarian.... And then they cut to sportsnet where host whatever his name is says 'you've gotta love what you saw there from connor mcdavid, the oilers captain'. Makes me sick. After that choke job it's still the mcdavid show. Guess what, THEY LOST....
I'm at work and missed all three regulation goals by Anaheim and then of course the OT goal. Was there legit goalie interference on the third goal? I haven't seen a replay yet.
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I'm at work and missed all three regulation goals by Anaheim and then of course the OT goal. Was there legit goalie interference on the third goal? I haven't seen a replay yet.
It was pretty iffy. Looked to me like an 'accidentally on purpose' play. But it's Kesler, so I'm guessing he knew what he was doing. But he was pushed in by Nurse, and had his hands on his stick, it wasn't like he took his hand off and grabbed Talbot's pad. It was pretty dicey, imo, but pretty tough to call it back.
It was pretty iffy. Looked to me like an 'accidentally on purpose' play. But it's Kesler, so I'm guessing he knew what he was doing. But he was pushed in by Nurse, and had his hands on his stick, it wasn't like he took his hand off and grabbed Talbot's pad. It was pretty dicey, imo, but pretty tough to call it back.
I think it's really hard to call goalie interference when A) Your defensemen pushed him there and B) Held him there. Should need to be pretty blatant at that point.
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As I mentioned above, watch Lucic. Maybe a bit low just gliding down at the dot but he's still ok. For some reason then, even though he can see Perry cutting towards the middle of the ice,he takes a left turn towards the blue line instead of going straight ahead towards the middle of the ice where he sees (late reaction time too) Perry headed. By the time he chugs his feet the other way to try and make up for his cluelessness, Perry has that enough extra space and momentum to make the nice move and go around Talbot.
I'm at work and missed all three regulation goals by Anaheim and then of course the OT goal. Was there legit goalie interference on the third goal? I haven't seen a replay yet.
All kinds if gray area.
Nurse shoves Kesler down into the crease, Kesler appears to sort of lay there, sorta on/off Talbots pads. Nurse somewhat holds Kesler there for part of the time, at least. With the way Kesler fell, and the way the play happened, Keslers stick ends up under Talbots pads, so he's held back from getting up, unless he drops his stick. Meanwhile, Kesler is hanging on to his stick, and his arm is between Talbots leg and the top portion of the pads. Kesler trying to get up is essentially is pulling Talbots pads away from where Talbot want them. In my estimation the whole thing is unintentional. The whole thing is maybe about 4 seconds.
There probably isn't a specific rule to tell whether the call should be interference or not. I think Anaheim would and should be furious had the goal been waved off, just as Edmonton was furious that the goal was allowed.
From Anaheim's perspective:
Kesler was shoved into the crease, and into Talbot
Nurse was partially on top of Kesler preventing him from getting up
Kesler couldn't get up because his stick was stuck.
From Edmonton's perspective:
Kesler gets knocked into the crease, but seemingly doesn't try to get back out of the way when he has an opportunity.
Kesler is basically indirectly pulling on Talbots pad. If he was actually pulling on his pad directly, this is no doubt goalie interference.
It was a total Cave-man play by Nurse. There were two Oilers pushing Ducks on top of Talbot and then wacking at them while they were laying there. That's 100% on them.
I think it's really hard to call goalie interference when A) Your defensemen pushed him there and B) Held him there. Should need to be pretty blatant at that point.
Yeah, I'd agree with that. As usual, the review has to be really obvious to overturn the call on the ice. That wasn't absolutely obvious, although as a Flames fan I'd be ticked.
What I do find interesting is that no one, not the coaches or the commentators, seems to understand how the goalie interference review works (let alone what the standard is). Shannon said it's the referee alone who made the call who decides. Kypreos and the panel implied the play gets looked at in Toronto (and suggested several guys review the play and make the determination).
Kessler was pushed into Talbot by the mental midget Nurse. He was trying to get up when Nurse continued to push him in, and he was holding his own stick, that Talbot was kneeling on.
It was a good goal, just like the goals in the last game we're good goals.
Edmonton fans are babies, and it is hilarious all the whining they are doing.
Boo hoo hoo losers.
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