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Colorado Avalanche (C1) vs. Edmonton Oilers (P2)
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bustaheims
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Avs in, I dunno, 6 I guess?
louisstamos
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I have no idea how that was considered onside...
Guilt Trip
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Makar put the picking the zone but never entered, or touched the puck inside the zone until Nuke cleared. Good call.louisstamos said:
Guilt Trip
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If TBay gets past NYR and if either of these teams play like they did tonight, they'll 3 peat easily.
Heroic Shrimp
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https://twitter.com/JesseGranger_/status/1531809982986891264
Kin
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I feel like that goal sort of neatly puts together the fundamental debate about sports officiating in a nutshell. Nobody is seriously arguing that what Makar did violated the notion of what the Offsides rule is supposed to prevent, just maybe that it was possibly mis-timed by a fraction of a second that gave his team no real advantage but may have violated a strict interpretation of the rule as written.
Which, like I said, seems like the issue with officiating in general. When it's called against our team, we want the Refs to use common sense and discretion and take situation into account. When it's called against the other guys we're all strict orginalists.
Which, like I said, seems like the issue with officiating in general. When it's called against our team, we want the Refs to use common sense and discretion and take situation into account. When it's called against the other guys we're all strict orginalists.
OldTimeHockey
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Nik said:
There's a difference between happening to not have the puck on your stick for a split second while the player leaves the zone (coincidentally), and standing at the blueline and not touching the puck while you observe your players leaving the zone.
Did the player leaving the zone have any consequence on the play? Well yes and no. Did that player contribute to the goal. No. Could the offside call have changed the course of the entire game? Most definitely.
To me, offsides are not a grey zone. Either you're offside or you're not. That player was offside no matter how many comparables Elliot Friedman shows to justify it.
OldTimeHockey
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Nik said:
I don't care much either. I'd rather Colorado wins the series, but really, I have nothing vested in it.
A call like that is going to have players lifting their stick every time they enter the zone just incase the player skating out hasn't cleared yet. That's silly.
Kin
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OldTimeHockey said:
I didn't mean I don't care in terms of not being personally invested in the series, I just meant if the post-game discussion is about whether or not a rule was technically violated as opposed to whether or not something fundamentally unfair happened then, to paraphrase Lil' Baby, you can miss me with that ish.
bustaheims
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OldTimeHockey said:
If that happens (or, possibly, to prevent that from happening), I suspect we'll see a more encompassing definition of what being in the possession of the puck entails.
Landeskog with what looked like a blindside hit on Yamomoto to the head, no call. Immediately afterwards, a chintzy call on Draisitl and then another call to put them down two - looked like MacKinnon's own stick hit him in the face, though, but I didn't get a good look at the replay.
Edit: There's the replay, elbow to the chops.
Edit: There's the replay, elbow to the chops.
Guilt Trip
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Slash to the hands isn't chintzy. It's called all the time. Didn't see the Landeskog hit.Derk said:
Oil are no match for Col so far. McD and Drai look rather ordinary.
