{"id":541258,"date":"2026-04-05T01:19:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541258\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:19:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:19:35","slug":"why-adam-foote-should-be-furious-over-the-victor-mancini-non-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/541258\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Adam Foote should be furious over the Victor Mancini non-call"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Photo credit: Bob Frid-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Victor Mancini got caught in a dangerous non-call Saturday, and Adam Foote had every reason to hate what unfolded against Utah.<\/p>\n

The play is hard to dress up any other way.<\/p>\n

Liam O’Brien went in for the check on Mancini in the corner, then swung his stick down while falling, and no penalty was called.<\/p>\n

That’s the kind of sequence that leaves a bench boiling.<\/p>\n

It gets worse when you remember where it happened.<\/p>\n

This wasn’t a scramble at center ice with bodies everywhere. The play was along the wall, right in an area where an official should have had a clean look at the slash.<\/p>\n

Vancouver can live with a missed offside or a close icing. A dangerous stick play on a young defenceman is a different story, especially when two referees are on the ice and both let it go.<\/p>\n

Adam Foote had a right to be furious<\/p>\n

Foote’s group has taken enough on the chin this season without watching something like that slide by. Vancouver entered Saturday at 22-45-8, while Utah came in at 39-30-6.<\/p>\n

When the whistle disappears on a dangerous play, it changes the temperature of the whole night.<\/p>\n

And that old line still fits: officials say they don’t want to influence the game, but passing on a penalty influences it too.<\/p>\n

That’s the part fans never let go, and they shouldn’t. A non-call is still a decision, and this one handed the game a different standard in a moment that demanded one.<\/p>\n

The biggest issue isn’t outrage on social media. It’s what could have happened if Mancini had been hurt on the play.<\/p>\n

That’s where these sequences stop being \u201cpart of the game\u201d and start looking reckless. You can survive a bad bounce. You shouldn’t have to survive a missed dangerous stick play right in front of the stripes.<\/p>\n

For Vancouver, this should have been an automatic call. For the officials, it was a brutal miss.<\/p>\n

Previously on Vancouver Hockey Daily<\/p>\n

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Why Adam Foote should be furious over the Victor Mancini non-call<\/p>\n

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