Leo Carlsson 🚫 Interference 🚫 Major Against Evan Rodrigues

Good job of that. Go has both Anaheim power play goals tonight. Ducks have struck on each of their last two man advantages. Carlson wins the face off. Lome finds Terry. He gains the line, turns the defense around, drops it off, and now a penalty coming up to Anaheim. Rodriguez is down. He got high stick. I I think it was the the shoulder of Leo Carlson that caught Rodriguez. He’s in some distress. Here’s Rodriguez and it’s Leo just trying to cut inside. And you see Rodriguez is bent over. Carlson’s trying to get inside position. Makes contact with the hen. It’s not intentional. Well, the Florida Panthers are missing a lot of key pieces. We talked obviously about the absence of Matthew Kachchuck and Sasha Barov, Jonah Gajivic, Dmitri Kulakov, and Tomas Nosk are also out of their lineup. And Rodriguez is going straight to the locker room here. [Applause] While it will be a penalty against Carlson, this is bad news for Florida as well. The nice call is a fiveminute major penalty. The play will be reviewed. Okay. Well, the f this gives them an opportunity, Brian. Right. They call it a fiveminute penalty against Carlson. And that allows them to take a look on the iPad and see if there was intent involved. There was not intent involved. Carlson was just trying to get position. In fact, when when you look at it again from that angle, Rodriguez actually cuts back into the contact. He doesn’t see Leo Carlson. Leo Carlson sees him and is just trying to get inside of him, but there was no intent to make contact with the head and deliver that blow to Rodriguez. So, Kyle Raymond and Chris Schlinker take a look at the iPad. Leo for the time being sits in the penalty box. Now, the other thing that can happen here is this can be reduced to a two-minute minor. It can also be no penalty at all. So, options abound for the Zebras here. And this is critical. Just 51 seconds into the third period and 8 seconds into a wouldbe Anaheim power play. Paul Maurice takes a look at it as well. And so will we once more. Well, here’s one more look at it. And you see that even the reaction of Leo Carlson afterwards to me would indicate that there was not any intent on his part. Well, this is obviously a huge decision in the hockey game here. Whether it turns it into fouron-our hockey or whether it’s a fiveminute power play for the Florida Panthers, those are two very big differences in conference with the situation room in Toronto. You can see is Kyle Raymond. He’ll take the headset off and we’ll hear the announcement. You’re right though, John. This is a critical critical decision made by the referees here and there. The linesman has come over. Yeah, this this remains ongoing and it’ll be Chris Schlanker or Kyle Raymond, one of them. It’ll be Chris Lanker to deliver the news. After video review, the call on the ice is confirmed. We have a 5minute major penalty for interference and the game is probably the last thing I was expecting. I think it’s the last thing that Leo Carlson was expecting as well of the options available to the officials. I was not thinking that’s it for Leo Carlson that that would be a major P. This is a guy who has never had more than 16 penalty minutes in a season. He’s only got one minor penalty all year. And boy, I don’t know about that. And obviously we’ll turn it into a fouron four for the next minute 52 and then a Florida power play of nearly 3 minutes beyond that. But yeah, you know, it renders the Ducks without Leo Carlson for the final 1909. I I would say this, John. The fact that Rodriguez cuts back against the grain, back towards center ice. I mean, he’s got to bear some responsibility for the contact as well. I mean, he tucks that shoulder in and cuts back into the middle. I don’t like this call at all. Leo’s the puck was there. I mean, here it is at full speed. I I mean there’s just no way that Leo Carlson, he’s trying to get inside. He’s not trying to injure Evan Rodriguez. That is not a fiveminute major penalty.

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32 comments

  7. I don't blame the refs for the on-ice call at speed.

    I blame the NHL for allowing for enough time for Colon Campbell to make a call to Toronto and remind them that it's the Dept of Panther Safety.

  10. That was a TERRIBLE call should have been 2 minutes or none it’s not as though the player aimed his shoulder at the players head , I thought the WNBA refs were bad.

  13. Wow…whoever made that call has to be fined or something….This is the softest game misconduct ever! Nothing intentional in Carlsson's action.

  18. LMFAO. That's incredible. Incidental contact and Rodrigues turns at the last second into the contact while hunched over…The call, in real time, done correctly. The officials called it a major because it needed further review. I have no issues with that. The fact that the league office looked at it and upheld it is a failure that would result in termination if any of us failed that hard at our jobs.

  22. If you want to win back to back Cups in the NHL you need to be elite in all areas of the game, play gritty, have phenomenal netminding and benefit from favourable reffing in every game you play.

  26. Carlson was twisted and as he made contact with Rodriguez he sprung back into an alligned position, the only problem was the movement went through where Rodriguez had his head.

  31. What a wild horse crap call, and flopopotamous….i dont even this Leo saw him there he was just tryna skate to his spot. Kids just a moose.

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