Paul McCann: Don't blame the war room, but they did blow it

I’m certainly no Preds fan.... That was just nonsense. If that’s goalie interference, then everything is...

Cheer up guys ! This is the same situation room that Herr Buttman mandated will call the off-sides next year !!

Pretty soon everything NHL will be orchestrated from the Situation Room.

Bad bad call. But it shouldn’t effect any standings at least. Hopefully they fix this bs before playoffs.

agreed 100% horrible call.

I would rather live or die by the call on the ice than by some "hack" in a hole in Toronto!

THE WAR ROOM MUST GO !!!!!

As much as I like the preds, that's the right call. Luongo was pushed by Arvidsson and that caused the puck to go loose. If Arvidsson doesn't push Luongo, the plays is dead... You clearly see Arvidsson put all his weight to push Luongo.

As much as I like the preds, that's the right call. Luongo was pushed by Arvidsson and that caused the puck to go loose. If Arvidsson doesn't push Luongo, the plays is dead... You clearly see Arvidsson put all his weight to push Luongo.
- Douchetacular

Yep, just like the no call on Crosby's temper tantrum water bottle throwing incident, right? NOT. The contact was caused by his own player, which was incidental AT BEST!

Was a bad call, but quotes from Bettman are irrelevant. He doesn't decide what the rules are, the competition committee does.

As much as I like the preds, that's the right call. Luongo was pushed by Arvidsson and that caused the puck to go loose. If Arvidsson doesn't push Luongo, the plays is dead... You clearly see Arvidsson put all his weight to push Luongo.
- Douchetacular

You need to go read the rule.
If a defender pushes the offensive player into the goalie then there is no enterfearence.
Arvidson was pushed by there guy.

Clear as day he pushes the netminder with his stick. You are so utterly biased it is ridiculous. I can only imagine if this went the other way, same score, same situation but it was the Panthers. Your write up would be NHL gets it right. You are the same guy who doesn't see anything wrong with Subban's forearm shiver because he doesn't know how to get into position to actually make a legit check. Disgraceful.

You need to go read the rule.
If a defender pushes the offensive player into the goalie then there is no enterfearence.
Arvidson was pushed by there guy.
- up-n-ya

He used his stick to push the goalie period. If he got pushed later it would not matter. You can see before any other contact he moves Luongo pushing him with his stick.

Yep, just like the no call on Crosby's temper tantrum water bottle throwing incident, right? NOT.
- expectations

The "Crosby temper tantrum water bottle throwing incident" has absolutely nothing to do with what is being discussed here. And YES, Crosby should have been penalyzed on that play...

You need to go read the rule.
If a defender pushes the offensive player into the goalie then there is no enterfearence.
Arvidson was pushed by there guy.
- up-n-ya

He was pushed by their guy? It was his stick jabbing into Lu's glove that turned him, that was caused by him being pushed by the Dman? The puck wouldn't have reappeared without Lu being spun, it would've stayed under the pads until the whistle blew or the time expired. If he put stick on puck and worked it free that would be different, but the puck wasn't under the glove it was under his pads. I know there have been a wide variance to goalie interference calls this year, and the league needs consistency in making the calls. Some things that are far more blatant than last night have been let go, it's a crap shoot as to what they will rule. But, that's the third time this year in a Panther game that I recall a goal being disallowed because of putting a stick on the goalie and using it to push him around, so there has been some consistency in that regard. I think the other poster is right, your perception of good/bad call is solely based on how it affects your team. And just what the hell is enterfearence?

I thought they got the call right. Bottom line is, I've seen faster whistles on visible loose pucks. Whistle should have blown negating the entire play all together.

You know I guess the NBCSN guys are part of the liberal media that wants the Preds to win everything, b/c all their announcers were scratching their heads while watching the replay... BAD BAD CALL.

The "Crosby temper tantrum water bottle throwing incident" has absolutely nothing to do with what is being discussed here. And YES, Crosby should have been penalyzed on that play...
- Douchetacular

you have to admit that temper tantrum was a total female dog move...

Hmmm… nothing about Luongo initiating contact, nothing about the puck being loose between the goaltender’s pads, nothing about Keith Yandle pushing Arvidsson into the goalie… according to our friends in the situation room in Toronto… it was the magic poking stick that caused a 5 degree turn in the goaltender. (Sarcasm /off)
- Paul McCann

When nothing is said about one or more things, that ought to be a clue that they don't matter. Luongo "initiating contact" is a non-factor because Luongo contacted him with the blocker a second earlier, not with his glove at the point that's in dispute. Luongo put his glove down and Arvidsson made contact with it, not the other way around. As for the puck being loose, that's beside the point because that doesn't permit a player to push the goaltender. As for the last point, Yandle didn't push Arvidsson into the goalie. He pushed him away from the goalie and because Arvidsson's stick was in the glove, that may've helped rotate Luongo, but that's Arvidsson's fault for having his stick there.

Honestly, where is the outrage over the missed hooking/high sticking call that knocked Dadanov to his knees before Sceviour scored?

The Panthers outplayed the Preds for 56 minutes at least. Don't talk yourself into thinking a call/non-call with 0.6 seconds left is the sole determining factor of the game and your place in the standings. Keep the goal, there still would have been an overtime. Plus, the whistle should have blown when the puck disappeared from sight under Luongo.

Not like the call against the Panthers a couple of days ago where they awarded Ottawa penalty shot with 10 seconds to go on what was at best a good stick play on the puck and at worst a 2-min tripping penalty. That may have cost the Panthers the playoffs.

The "Crosby temper tantrum water bottle throwing incident" has absolutely nothing to do with what is being discussed here. And YES, Crosby should have been penalyzed on that play...
- Douchetacular

Just saying Wrong Call both instances.

That was not a blown call. The Situation Room got it right.

The puck is under Luongo between his pads/skates. He is twisted by the Preds stick pushing his glove/left pad, and that movement causes the puck to come out loose.

You can't push a goalie with the puck into the net to score, you can't push a goalie to cause a loose puck and then score. 2nd happened in this situation.

I get it, it was at the end of the game and was a big goal to tie up the game with no time left. But it's not a good goal.

I'm sure that the NHL doing a Road to the Playoffs show that is featuring the Panthers had nothing to do with anything.

If that is a bad goal, half the goals scored in this league are bad goals. Hornqvist wouldn't have a goal in his entire career.

It was a ridiculous call and there is way to much room for error on goalie interference calls. Sissons got screwed last year in the Finals as well. This rule is going to screw some team out of the Cup

Lmao @ hearing a Preds fan sent a dead catfish to the league offices in Toronto.

Mr McCann writes, "Viktor Arvidsson pokes free a loose puck from between Luongo’s pads and Filip Forsberg taps home the winner with .6 seconds left."
Paul, if Arvidsson had actually got his stick on the puck and poked it free you'd have a legitimate beef. But, he never came anywhere near the puck, as it was under Luongo's pads and Arvidsson was jamming at his glove. The puck only came free as a result of Luongo being spun from Arvidsson pushing him. Without that push, Luongo wouldn't have spun, his feet would've stayed together and the puck would've stayed under him for the remaining .04 second or until ref blew whistle. The correct call was made!
As for your assertion that Yandle pushed him in, no he didn't. Yandle was pushing him from right to left, across the top of the crease and not into Luongo. The only effect this might've had was causing Arvidsson to miss poking under the pads (where the puck was), instead poking at his glove causing him to spin him off of the now covered puck. It's never been allowed to knock or push a goalie off of a covered puck. And your saying Luongo initiated contact is just a flat out hallucination. Perhaps you should've tried a seventh draft.
I can't help but wonder what your blog said after the first meeting this season between these two teams. That was the game where a Preds goal was allowed even though it could never clearly be seen over the goal line. It was the difference in a one goal game. Were you outraged over that questionable decision made by the NHL? I imagine it probably wasn't mentioned. I guess the many Preds fans throwing conspiracy theories around and sending dead fish to Toronto have forgotten about that call, too.