Stick gets up by his arm, so his feet get thrown out behind him? Absolutely brutal no-call on such an obvious dive.
I know it’s tough but they really gotta get better at calling the dive.
If you get the stick in that spot it’s a penalty every time. But no dive call on that is pretty brutal.
Hard to tell from the clip but was kucherov just diving to try and poke the puck to a teammate and away from the Montreal players not diving to draw a call? To me it at least starts that way although if j the ending looks a little more theatrical but maybe that’s just the slow motion leading to me thinking that.
For sure a dive but Guhle also has one hand on his stick and it wraps around his waist. Ref should’ve taken both players
I mean was it a bit of a dive… sure, was it also a hook/holding yes. When your stick gets up and around the midsection or chest and interferes with a players forward progress, that’s hooking. Cry all you want but that’s a penalty. Both players should have gone though as it was also seemingly embellishment.
If he doesn’t go down the ref doesn’t call it. So yeah it’s a dive, but also it’s a penalty anytime a defender gets his stick in there.
Players feel like they have to sell a call to get the call. So if refs start calling diving then they need to also call penalties where players don’t fall, which they don’t really do.
If you get high sticked in the visor and don’t react ref will miss it 99% of the time, hence head snaps back now for anything remotely close.
Theres more embellishment than hooking on this play
Reffing this series has been fucking awful. What happened to playoff hockey
The funniest part is that after that happened the hey shower Kucherov shaking his sore wrist from his dramatic dive…hahaha karma
Kucherov is embarrassing to watch. He was diving all game long.
Diving for the puck? In what way does that help exactly
Still a penalty. Could argue for a dive but don’t put your stick there and kuch can’t make that “play”
Bahahahahaha. That might be the weakest penalty I’ve seen
He’ll never make it to Hollywood but the NHL refs seem to like his acting
Didn’t know Kuch was moonlighting as a dolphin
Holy diver.
Kucherov not allowed to get penalties, as seen here and when he slashed the stick out of Andersons hands i think.. absolutely ridiculous reffing.
I bet he doesn’t get much calls for the series
It’s no Triple Lindy, but I’ll allow it.
Ok, I didn’t watch the game to see the officiating overall to have any commentary on that, but as a neutral observer of these two teams, here is the sequence of events I see on this one:
1. Kucherov reaches, leans forwards, and attempts to push with his right leg.
2. Blade on blade contact occurs, causing Kucherov to lose the inside edge of his right skate, which he is pushing off with.
3. Kucherov’s right foot shoots backwards with all the power he was intending to put into the ice, shifting his center of gravity behind his left skate.
4. The shifted center of gravity takes enough weight off the front of Kucherov’s left skate for him to lose the bite he has on his left skate’s outside edge, primarily in the front where the weight was shifted away from.
5. Losing that left foot’s outside edge causes the toe of his skate to point to the right, in the opposite direction he is turning.
6. Kucherov has no edges under him going in the same direction of his momentum, all while he is already off balance from reaching, and the result is that Kucherov goes down.
TLDR: Watch the skates. How it played out, this contact is all incidental at best and shouldn’t have been a penalty for either player.
Cooper: We can’t take stupid penalties.
Refs: OK, roger that.
Coochierov earning the family crest
Should have been a no call. In slow-mo you might think Kuch embellished due to the little tap, but he was diving for the puck he gave up being careless in the first place.
He definitely dove but I don’t think it was to sell the hook. He was trying to poke at the puck and dove forward. Still a stupid call.
He even tried to grab the Canadien player’s skate as he fell… Florida “hockey”…
I am not buying what you’re selling, no thank you.
I was told Leaf fans were whiners and that officiating is not preferable to Florida teams so keep crying!
In this game alone Kucherov got away with nailing Anderson from behind when the puck was nowhere near him, blatantly slashed the stick out of Anderson’s hands while they were on a powerplay, and actually wound up to take a slapshot at the linesman when he didn’t like an offside call (this one was especially crazy – he should have been given a 10 minute misconduct. It was a legitimate threat and had nothing to do with the play).
And then there’s this play. Say whatever you want about their skate blades touching, if you watched the entire game you’d have better context to make an informed decision. End of the day Tampa will do anything to gain an *edge*. They’ve been diving a fair bit throughout both games and are clinging on desperately despite being outclassed, outcoached, and outmatched.
Mark my words: the only way they have a chance in this series is on the backs of the officials.
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Diving
That’s some Gary Bettman hockey right there.
Oof
9.5 /9.6 /9.6 /9.7 /9.8
Stick gets up by his arm, so his feet get thrown out behind him? Absolutely brutal no-call on such an obvious dive.
I know it’s tough but they really gotta get better at calling the dive.
If you get the stick in that spot it’s a penalty every time. But no dive call on that is pretty brutal.
Hard to tell from the clip but was kucherov just diving to try and poke the puck to a teammate and away from the Montreal players not diving to draw a call? To me it at least starts that way although if j the ending looks a little more theatrical but maybe that’s just the slow motion leading to me thinking that.
For sure a dive but Guhle also has one hand on his stick and it wraps around his waist. Ref should’ve taken both players
I mean was it a bit of a dive… sure, was it also a hook/holding yes. When your stick gets up and around the midsection or chest and interferes with a players forward progress, that’s hooking. Cry all you want but that’s a penalty. Both players should have gone though as it was also seemingly embellishment.
If he doesn’t go down the ref doesn’t call it. So yeah it’s a dive, but also it’s a penalty anytime a defender gets his stick in there.
Players feel like they have to sell a call to get the call. So if refs start calling diving then they need to also call penalties where players don’t fall, which they don’t really do.
If you get high sticked in the visor and don’t react ref will miss it 99% of the time, hence head snaps back now for anything remotely close.
Theres more embellishment than hooking on this play
Reffing this series has been fucking awful. What happened to playoff hockey
The funniest part is that after that happened the hey shower Kucherov shaking his sore wrist from his dramatic dive…hahaha karma
Kucherov is embarrassing to watch. He was diving all game long.
Diving for the puck? In what way does that help exactly
Still a penalty. Could argue for a dive but don’t put your stick there and kuch can’t make that “play”
Bahahahahaha. That might be the weakest penalty I’ve seen
He’ll never make it to Hollywood but the NHL refs seem to like his acting
Didn’t know Kuch was moonlighting as a dolphin
Holy diver.
Kucherov not allowed to get penalties, as seen here and when he slashed the stick out of Andersons hands i think.. absolutely ridiculous reffing.
I bet he doesn’t get much calls for the series
It’s no Triple Lindy, but I’ll allow it.
Ok, I didn’t watch the game to see the officiating overall to have any commentary on that, but as a neutral observer of these two teams, here is the sequence of events I see on this one:
1. Kucherov reaches, leans forwards, and attempts to push with his right leg.
2. Blade on blade contact occurs, causing Kucherov to lose the inside edge of his right skate, which he is pushing off with.
3. Kucherov’s right foot shoots backwards with all the power he was intending to put into the ice, shifting his center of gravity behind his left skate.
4. The shifted center of gravity takes enough weight off the front of Kucherov’s left skate for him to lose the bite he has on his left skate’s outside edge, primarily in the front where the weight was shifted away from.
5. Losing that left foot’s outside edge causes the toe of his skate to point to the right, in the opposite direction he is turning.
6. Kucherov has no edges under him going in the same direction of his momentum, all while he is already off balance from reaching, and the result is that Kucherov goes down.
TLDR: Watch the skates. How it played out, this contact is all incidental at best and shouldn’t have been a penalty for either player.
Cooper: We can’t take stupid penalties.
Refs: OK, roger that.
Coochierov earning the family crest
Should have been a no call. In slow-mo you might think Kuch embellished due to the little tap, but he was diving for the puck he gave up being careless in the first place.
He definitely dove but I don’t think it was to sell the hook. He was trying to poke at the puck and dove forward. Still a stupid call.
He even tried to grab the Canadien player’s skate as he fell… Florida “hockey”…
I am not buying what you’re selling, no thank you.
I was told Leaf fans were whiners and that officiating is not preferable to Florida teams so keep crying!
In this game alone Kucherov got away with nailing Anderson from behind when the puck was nowhere near him, blatantly slashed the stick out of Anderson’s hands while they were on a powerplay, and actually wound up to take a slapshot at the linesman when he didn’t like an offside call (this one was especially crazy – he should have been given a 10 minute misconduct. It was a legitimate threat and had nothing to do with the play).
And then there’s this play. Say whatever you want about their skate blades touching, if you watched the entire game you’d have better context to make an informed decision. End of the day Tampa will do anything to gain an *edge*. They’ve been diving a fair bit throughout both games and are clinging on desperately despite being outclassed, outcoached, and outmatched.
Mark my words: the only way they have a chance in this series is on the backs of the officials.
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