Don’t bring this up in r/hockey. They are having a meltdown over the call over there.
It’s a tough call. There was clearly contact with the stick, it was clearly incidental (not intentional) and almost certainly didn’t affect the result of the play. I think it was probably the correct decision, and I think the frustration expressed is due to the inconsistency of how it’s called, not necessarily the particulars of this situation.
I can’t remember which game but I know last season we got burned by a bad GI call. It was then I realized I will never know what’s goalie interference and what isn’t.
I mean if Eberle being one pixel inside the blue paint and brushing Hofer’s stick on a save where Hofer had no eyes on the puck and is not playing his stick is called goaltender interference, then a lot of good goals are going to need to be called back across the league.
This was so obviously the correct call and if it had been the other way around on Grubauer I would have had zero expectation of the goal being called back. Any supposed controversy about this is just straightforward cope. I appreciate that the Blues are having a rough season but that doesn’t mean this ruling was wrong. If anything it reinforced there being some consequentialist logic to goalie interference.
At this point I’m thoroughly convinced they flip a coin to decide GI. I’m psyched it fell our way tonight 🦑🥅
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Don’t bring this up in r/hockey. They are having a meltdown over the call over there.
It’s a tough call. There was clearly contact with the stick, it was clearly incidental (not intentional) and almost certainly didn’t affect the result of the play. I think it was probably the correct decision, and I think the frustration expressed is due to the inconsistency of how it’s called, not necessarily the particulars of this situation.
I can’t remember which game but I know last season we got burned by a bad GI call. It was then I realized I will never know what’s goalie interference and what isn’t.
I mean if Eberle being one pixel inside the blue paint and brushing Hofer’s stick on a save where Hofer had no eyes on the puck and is not playing his stick is called goaltender interference, then a lot of good goals are going to need to be called back across the league.
This was so obviously the correct call and if it had been the other way around on Grubauer I would have had zero expectation of the goal being called back. Any supposed controversy about this is just straightforward cope. I appreciate that the Blues are having a rough season but that doesn’t mean this ruling was wrong. If anything it reinforced there being some consequentialist logic to goalie interference.
At this point I’m thoroughly convinced they flip a coin to decide GI. I’m psyched it fell our way tonight 🦑🥅