Both of Wednesday’s games featured controversial disallowed goals.
The Detroit Red Wings ultimately overcame Drew Miller‘s non-goal following a phantom penalty. Nashville Predators forward Craig Smith seemingly put his team up 1-0 against the red-hot Edmonton Oilers, yet that tally was waved off:
Here’s the explanation via the league’s Situation Room Blog:
At 1:35 of the first period in the Nashville Predators/Edmonton Oilers game, the Situation Room initiated a video review to further examine a play at the Edmonton net. Video review confirmed that the puck did not enter the Edmonton net on Craig Smith’s original shot and that the referee was in the process of blowing his whistle to stop play before the puck crossed the goal line. According to Rule 78.5, apparent goals shall be disallowed “when the Referee deems the play has been stopped, even if he had not physically had the opportunity to stop play by blowing his whistle.” Therefore the referee’s call on the ice stands – no goal Nashville.
The decision certainly drew its critics:
Either way, the contest remains 0-0 as of this moment as Ben Scrivens seems like he’s on the top of his game.
Update: The second period included an odd moment of its own, as play was whistled dead on a Ryan Nugent-Hopkins goal that wasn’t.
On the bright side, Smith ended up getting a goal tonight, after all.
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- valoisvipers - Oct 29, 2014 at 10:55 PM
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For a league that does want to increase scoring they should begin letting video review people have more power, enough unrestricted power to just get the right call made in accordance to the full picture.
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- Wineshard - Oct 29, 2014 at 11:03 PM
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That was the right call. I don’t even remotely like the Oilers, but c’mon the goalie had it under his glove already.
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- stakex - Oct 30, 2014 at 1:25 AM
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Obviously not, or it wouldn’t have ended up in the net….
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- endusersolutions2013 - Oct 29, 2014 at 11:06 PM
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Very quick whistle, and an inappropriate whistle. Scrivens was TRYING to smother it – AND BLEW IT!
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- hockeyflow33 - Oct 29, 2014 at 11:32 PM
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That rule has been in place for years. It seems like the media just likes to complain about things. The majority of the goals that have been waved off have been good calls.
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- stakex - Oct 30, 2014 at 1:34 AM
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The problem with this goal is that the whistle was so long after the puck actually went in. I understand that there is a delay between the time a ref feels the play is dead and the time when he blows the whistle. However the ref clearly had his whistle to his mouth the entire time, and still didn’t actually blow the play dead until a good 1.5-2 seconds after the puck was in the net. If he felt the play was dead sooner, he was certainly in position to blow the whistle sooner.
This is one of many rules that needs to be changed when it comes to goals and video review. The measuring stick should no longer be when the ref imagines he wanted to blow the play dead after the fact, but rather when the whistle actually blows.
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- avscup - Oct 30, 2014 at 9:47 AM
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Indeed! If a refs reaction time from when his brain says blow the whistle and when he actually blows the whistle is that slow, he should not be a ref!
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- paperkid96 - Oct 30, 2014 at 9:17 AM
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Any chance they will issue an explanation on the Drew Miller goal? Ha! That would be a great read.
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- hockeydon10 - Oct 30, 2014 at 11:31 AM
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Not only will they not address that incident, they’ve probably already complained to NBCSN for covering and criticizing so much.
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