So the rule is not about carrying vs passing the puck over the line, it’s about “controlling the puck” and Movarare had controlled the puck prior to his skates crossing the blue line. When the super slow-mo showed the tiny tick off the defenseman’s stick, I thought the linesmen had determined that THAT had created a loss of control and therefore put the play offside. But when Foxy read what the league, or officials, based their call on??? That was complete BS. Kings getting jobbed hard right now.
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Yeah. The official call was that it was passed across the line. Not brought in with possession.
He was across the blue line but he never carried the puck over the line. The puck was behind the blue line when he passed it, so he was not in control of the puck when it crossed the line as it crossed on the pass. I didn’t think it was a controversial decision unfortunately.
In my view, if control is the only determining factor based on the rules, him making a clean pass is evidence of control. Had there been a delayed penalty against us, you can bet that it would have been blown down 100% for controlling the puck. What is considered control in one case should apply to all cases or they are just making things up.
Any argument over possession is just absurd. Newton’s first law makes that pretty clear but maybe they don’t teach physics in Toronto.