Siberian
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Can someone tell me why they did not stop the game after the puck hit Salo in the head? Wasn't the rule already implemented by that time?
Thanks for bringing back those wonderful memories.rushockey said:Can someone tell me why they did not stop the game after the puck hit Salo in the head? Wasn't the rule already implemented by that time?
rushockey said:Can someone tell me why they did not stop the game after the puck hit Salo in the head? Wasn't the rule already implemented by that time?
Macman said:It did hit Salo in the head, but the IIHF rulebook states that "should a hard shot hit the goalkeeper's face mask while play is in progress, the referee should stop play." The word "hard" is actually underlined in the rulebook, meaning anything less than that won't result in a stoppage. It's at the referee's discretion and the shot on Salo wasn't much more than a floater as I recall.
Siberian said:The shot was a hard slapshot, you can't have an argument that it was not hard shot, this was anything but a floater.
Macman said:They why wasn't there a dispute? The purpose of the rule is to stop the play if the goalie is stunned or hurt. The only thing bruised by that shot was Salo's ego.
Macman said:They why wasn't there a dispute? The purpose of the rule is to stop the play if the goalie is stunned or hurt. The only thing bruised by that shot was Salo's ego.
Siberian said:I do not understand too why nobody raised this question. I know Salo is very classy guy and perhaps he decided not to raise this but I can't understand why every swedish fan did not raise this issue, I just think everyone was too stunned by this.
Siberian said:I do not understand too why nobody raised this question. I know Salo is very classy guy and perhaps he decided not to raise this but I can't understand why every swedish fan did not raise this issue, I just think everyone was too stunned by this.
That's what I was thinking.SwisshockeyAcademy said:Do none of you believe that the intial play should be allowed to be seen to its end and then a whistle blown if the puck is lying around? If i walk in on a breakaway and i go high and graze the head but it still goes in should it not count? Its not as though the shot that hit Salo fell back out for a rebound, it kept on into the net. It would be idiotic if whistles were blown in such situations.
Macman explained the rule pretty well. A shot from 30 miles outside the blueline should not stop play.Vikke said:The play would've been stopped if the puck bounced off Salo and back into play. If the puck is on it's way into the net, play shouldn't be stopped.
Bingo! This is not only about a fluke goal here. The whole team played below their potential the entire game. Sweden deserved to be waken up by that floater.Seachd said:There's a much more important question to be asked here: Why the hell was it 3-3 to begin with?