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KK Hockey: Explaining The Brad May Non-Goal
Mother Pucker Hockey: Detroit’s No Goal Call
From The Rink: "In this particular case, what would happen is we (in the League's video replay room in Toronto)...
| http://www.nhl.com/ice/news.htm?id=506731 - I think the NHL's intent is to blow! 11/20/2009 |
| The NHL (poorly) explains the no goal call in last night's Detroit game - http://bit.ly/2pwzJO 11/19/2009 |
| Just having a rule called "intent to blow" tells you there's a serious conceptual problem with the rulebook. http://tinyurl.com/y8u5otb 11/19/2009 |
Explaining The Brad May Non-Goal
KK Hockey —
... a call made on the ice and it’s a non-reviewable call. It’s a whistle blown by the referee and it was blown or the intent to blow it was before the puck crossed the goal line.”
Murphy agreed that the puck did go into the net, but having not spoken to LaRue yet he could only assume that the referee lost sight of the puck when it hit goalie Alex Auld’s pad and that’s where the intent to blow the whistle comes into play.
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Detroit’s No Goal Call
Mother Pucker Hockey —
... I just read the article over at nhl.com where NHL Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations Mike Murphy explains why Brad May’s goal in last nights Wings/Stars game was not reviewed. ...
"In this particular case, what would happen is we (in the League's video replay room in Toronto)...
From The Rink —
... — NHL Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations Mike Murphy
NHL: Wings' no-goal 'clearly' not right; will address procedures
Puck Daddy —
Mike Murphy(notes), the NHL's Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations, appeared on the NHL Live! radio program today to explain referee how the League let stand Dennis LaRue's epically awful call that robbed the Detroit Red Wings of a goal last night. From NHL.com write Dan Rose's transcript of the interview: "In this particular case what happened is we (in the League's video replay room in Toronto) see the puck in the net and call the video goal judge and say, 'Blow the horn and get the referee ...
NHL: Wings' no-goal not right call; will address procedures
Puck Daddy —
Mike Murphy(notes), the NHL's Senior Vice President of Hockey Operations, appeared on the NHL Live! radio program today to explain referee how the League let stand Dennis LaRue's epically awful call that robbed the Detroit Red Wings of a goal last night. From NHL.com write Dan Rose's transcript of the interview: "In this particular case what happened is we (in the League's video replay room in Toronto) see the puck in the net and call the video goal judge and say, 'Blow the horn and get the referee ...
How to Explain the Inexplicable: You Can't. So Fix It.
The Triple Deke —
... NHL.com ... "The way we've always handled it and the way we will continue to handle it until we have a procedure change is the referees call on the ice stands. He sees the shot and he sees the save and doesn't see the puck in the net and kills the play or blows the whistle," Murphy said. "It's not when you hear the whistle blow, it's when he intends to blow the whistle. There is a little bit of a gray area there between when he intends and when the whistle sounds. "In this case Dennis LaRue was clear with what he saw and clear with what he ...
Wings 1, Stars 3, Dennis LaRue 1: Post Game Snipes/Ranting...
Snipe Snipe, Dangle Dangle —
... only did he intend to blow his whistle, he had, in fact, already done so. Never mind that there was clear evidence that this was a fantasy. Never mind that every standard of reason and logic said that it should have been a goal. Never mind that whatever shreds of credibility that the NHL’s officiating system had been clinging to were blown away along with the goal. The league (admittedly to my surprise) issued a statement addressing the controversy that was amusingly labeled as an “ explanation .” It managed to pretend to apologize for “apparently” blowing the call while at the ...
Empty Netter Assists - 11-20-09
Empty Netters —
... -The NHL sort of explained the "intent to blow" rule that cost Detroit's a Brad May a goal Wednesday against the Stars. ...







