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See, the bruins have lost so many like this - sometimes dozens of seconds earlier - that this absolutely shouldn’t count.
 

cshea

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Stupid rule, but credit to Bruce. He was decisive on the challenge. That’s how it should be. He didn’t fart around and stall for 4 minutes, he has that thing challenged immediately.
 

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Getting tripped there may have actually helped him. Vasilevski was expecting him to come in hot and was already pretty far back in his crease, getting slowed down gave him a chance to wait V out.
 

McDrew

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Doesn’t matter.
IIRC, there's an interpretation that you can't skate in backwards unless you are "in control". I believe the call there could have been that he was not in control. I'm waiting on more details though.
 

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Stupid rule, but credit to Bruce. He was decisive on the challenge. That’s how it should be. He didn’t fart around and stall for 4 minutes, he has that thing challenged immediately.
I’d like to see this rule stand with regard to the level of scrutiny used to determine whether the goal scoring team was offsides, but make it so that offsides is not reviewable after the puck has been in the zone for X seconds, where X is about 5 maybe.
 

McDrew

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I totally missed Bruce's explanation of the offsides there. Anyone get it?

Edit: or was that about playing one's off-side wing?
 

cshea

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IIRC, there's an interpretation that you can't skate in backwards unless you are "in control". I believe the call there could have been that he was not in control. I'm waiting on more details though.
It depends on the interpretation of control. In my opinion he was in control of the puck, so he can go in before the puck. Of course, control is a judgement call.
 

McDrew

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It depends on the interpretation of control. In my opinion he was in control of the puck, so he can go in before the puck. Of course, control is a judgement call.
I'm not qualified to make that judgement. But I think we're on the same page. You saw that as control, and I'm currently unsure whether the ref did or did not. It also could have been one of the other skaters.