leftwinger37
Registered User
My buddy told me about a weird call in his B league championship game:
With under two minutes left in the game and his team up by one, my buddy's teammate was digging the puck out of the corner, took a crosscheck to the back, and fell on the puck. From what I understand, the player was making an effort to get up, but was also protecting his face because the other team was poking at him with their sticks, trying to free up the puck. In a matter of about five to ten seconds of this struggle for the puck, he was whistled for a delay of game penalty.
Now, the puck was under him mind you; no closed hand on the puck. Immediately, there was protest due to the game situation (under two minutes left in a championship game). The general feeling was that the play should have blown dead and the faceoff should have been out of the zone. Apparently the ref was not real confident in the call and didn't want to talk about it or explain it. To add insult to injury, the other team scored on the ensuing power play and scored a flukey goal in OT to win the championship.
To my buddy's credit, he didn't blame the ref for the loss since a defensive breakdown led to the GWG, but his issue was more along the lines of "do you really have to make that call in that situation?" I can't say that I disagree with him.
With under two minutes left in the game and his team up by one, my buddy's teammate was digging the puck out of the corner, took a crosscheck to the back, and fell on the puck. From what I understand, the player was making an effort to get up, but was also protecting his face because the other team was poking at him with their sticks, trying to free up the puck. In a matter of about five to ten seconds of this struggle for the puck, he was whistled for a delay of game penalty.
Now, the puck was under him mind you; no closed hand on the puck. Immediately, there was protest due to the game situation (under two minutes left in a championship game). The general feeling was that the play should have blown dead and the faceoff should have been out of the zone. Apparently the ref was not real confident in the call and didn't want to talk about it or explain it. To add insult to injury, the other team scored on the ensuing power play and scored a flukey goal in OT to win the championship.
To my buddy's credit, he didn't blame the ref for the loss since a defensive breakdown led to the GWG, but his issue was more along the lines of "do you really have to make that call in that situation?" I can't say that I disagree with him.