New target for video review?
Twice in this young NHL season, we’ve seen goals scored after the puck bounced back into play off the netting.
The first occurred in a 3-2 Ottawa Senators overtime win over the New York Islanders on October 8.
The puck hit the netting behind the Islanders goal. Both teams seemed to pause, expecting a whistle that never came.
And Ottawa rookie Peter Regin scored 11 seconds later.
A week later at the Bell Centre in Montreal, the puck bounced off the netting, dropped behind the net where Andrei Kostitsyn, Tomas Plekanec in a seven-second sequence in the third period that tied the game at two. Montreal eventually lost to Colorado 3-2 in regulation time. found it and then fed
Now pucks going off netting is not subject to video review, but a surprisingly high number of general managers believe they should be.
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