Jon Cooper leverages the expertise of the coaches who were here before to backtrackpossible missed callsBacktracked and shifted. The counterpart, Jared Bednar, was on the verge of his first NHL Championship and aimed to completely solve the problem and move on.
Still, the Stanley Cup Finals are in the limelight for all wrong reasons after Nazemkadri's overtime goal has made Avalanche 3-1 at its best, with uncertainty about the referee. Barking towards a full conclusion-seven series.
The goal was for Cooper and his Lightning to think that too many men were on the ice. No penalty is called, and Avalanche wins by knocking out a back-to-back defending champion.
"Does a single call make a difference in the series? No," Hall of Fame goalkeeper Grant Farr said in a telephone interview. "Colorado was a great team in overtime. There is no doubt. Do you want to not end up with such a play? Yeah. Because everyone is talking about play, not about good hockey games. I hope it's great, clean and simple. "
Kadori was involved in the play in question — after playing his first game in the final after injuring his right thumb — teammate Nathan McKinnon was about 40 feet off the bench. In the state, I jumped on the ice for a line change. When Kadri scored, McKinnon was still skating on the ice and the participating players were not even expected to touch the puck in that situation.
"Dear players, we are looking for every inch to take advantage and jump into play when we know that change is coming," said Ryan McDonagh of Lightning Defense on Thursday. Told. "It's impossible to say what the right decision is there. It's so fast, and it probably happens millions of times more than we think."
Authorities had room to judge too many men on the ice, and Tampa Bay was technically seven, but the players to replace each other were much closer to the home bench.
"You are changing on the spot, everything happens," Bednar said. "That's it because I'm counting 7-6 at some point. That's how the game is played. I don't see it as a break or non-break. What I really do with it I don't see it. "
In a statement sent to the Associated Press after Colorado won 3-2, the league's hockey administration saw it as a call for judgment. ..
"In discussing the goals of victory, each of the four officials advised that they didn't see too many men in the ice situation during play," the statement read. "This phone is not subject to video reviews by hockey ops or ice authorities."
