Should this goal have counted?

[Love]

First goal of the game yesterday between Canucks and Oilers.
https://youtu.be/X85O98jMTSA

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[2Pair]

Why wouldn't it count?

 

[Three On Zero]

It’s 100% a good goal, goalie never had it covered so it’s fair game

 

[boredmale]

Why wouldn't it count?

You can claim #6 interfered with the goalie(nobody pushed him into the goalie and the goalie was in the crease)

 

[2Pair]

You can claim #6 interfered with the goalie(nobody pushed him into the goalie and the goalie was in the crease)

that would be an awful argument

 

[North Cole]

Well if the ref sees it then yes, Koskinen's issue was that he was off the side. If he's at the back of the pile he has more of a case of being pushed in, but instead he just leaves his defense to fall on the puck in the crease and try not to put their hands on the puck.

At some point I would expect one of our guys to just grab the puck near the goal line and give up the penalty shot. Bieksa said it well enough, if the ref can mostly see the puck at intervals, it's pretty hard for him to blow the whistle with only Oiler players in the crease lying down, without also giving a penalty shot. The Goalie being off in Abbotsford helps too.

 

[boredmale]

that would be an awful argument

Upon 2nd look #9 also interfered with the goalie in the crease without being forced into the goalie.

 

[Three On Zero]

Upon 2nd look #9 also interfered with the goalie in the crease without being forced into the goalie.

The interference angle gets thrown out the window when the oilers had 3 players piled on top of their own goalie

 

[2Pair]

Upon 2nd look #9 also interfered with the goalie in the crease without being forced into the goalie.

You're allowed to be in the crease and to make incidental contact with the goalie provided that the puck is in the crease.

 

[Just Linda]

Looks like Archibald covered the puck with his hand. Good goal.

 

[dkd]

Good goal.

 

[Former Referee 68]

Oiler Fan saying Good goal

 

[WolfgangPuck]

If there was any question Oiler bench would have challenged that goal in the game

 

[grewalwings]

I didn't see any direct contact interfering with the goalie at first glance, have to go with it being a good goal unless if other angles suggest another story.

 

[RealisticLeaf55]

First goal of the game yesterday between Canucks and Oilers.

That's a good goal. Ref could see the puck the whole time. Oilers player kept trying to kneel on it rather than shove the puck into their goalie.

 

[WetcoastOrca]

Yes. I think the refs are often guilty of blowing the whistle too soon when the goalie clearly does not have control of the puck.

 

[Mez]

Ugliest goal of all time, but I dont see why it wouldn't count. On the overhead cam you can see the puck bounce around so the ref could still see it.

 

[ijuka]

That obviously is a good goal. I guess you'd have preferred it if the ref had mistakenly blown it dead instead since you assume he lost sight of the puck but I think that's backwards thinking.

 

[M2Beezy]

You can claim #6 interfered with the goalie(nobody pushed him into the goalie and the goalie was in the crease)

Brock Boeser

 

[Chabot84]

What the hell was that lol

 

[HTFN]

Well it's the I-Formation of goals but it got the payload across the line, good goal.

 

[treple13]

Such a strange goal. You got two Oilers playing goalie and preventing Koskinen from doing so. And the Vancouver players are just pushing the Oilers guys into the net, which is legal since they are not goalies

 

[North Cole]

Well it's the I-Formation of goals but it got the payload across the line, good goal.

Haha, the old Jumbo 23 personnel.

 

[Super Hans]

Hard to make a save when there's a Bear humping your leg.

 

[Anglesmith]

As others have pointed out, incidental contact with the goalie does not disallow a goal if it occurs while playing a puck in the crease.

It's a confusing distinction, but when a goalie has his pad pushed into the net with the puck, that is not considered incidental, but rather intentional. There isn't any of that here. Good goal.