MANALAPAN, Fla. — Coaches are challenging goals one way or the other for goaltender interference at the highest rate in six seasons, playoff races across the NHL are tight and the chase for the Stanley Cup is a month away. There’s a lot of different things that go into it.” Through the first 1,048 games this season, coaches challenged either …
MANALAPAN, Fla. — Coaches are challenging goals one way or the other for goaltender interference at the highest rate in six seasons, playoff races across the NHL are tight and the chase for the Stanley Cup is a month away. Because of all that, video review — and particularly coach’s challenges for goalie interference — took center stage Monday to …
Minutes after his team was knocked out of the NHL playoffs in a game that included two disallowed goals because of goaltender interference, Jon Cooper was careful to say those calls weren’t the reason the Tampa Bay Lightning lost the series. At least one prominent colleague agreed with Cooper’s sentiment, and many of the coaches left in the playoffs acknowledge …
You know the refrain by now. Let’s start with the good news: The dreaded Rule 69.1, which governs pretty much everything that would get a goal called back, is only a few hundred words long. It still may not matter, because even screening a goalie isn’t allowed if you’re in his crease. When there’s a review and you see those …
