Questionable call generates Penalty Shot, Game Misconduct

[FromEvaN]

Anticipation

[LobsterBabby]

This isn't questionable.

[CanAm85]

Not questionable at all. If the ref did not make the call, that would be questionable. How would he explain it? "Oh, I didn't see that happen right there were 20,000 people were staring..."

[bradh121]

RIP Pavol Demitra

[Scema12]

This should not be a penalty, the rule states that it is a penalty only if the stick is shot to distract or interfere with said player. You can see that the vancouver player either A sought the oppurtunity to shoot the puck at the stick or didn't see it. Regardless the stick was moving before the puck, making it no penalty.

[SuperNinjaWalrus]

thats a legit rule, why is it questionable?

[flameboy511]

HAHAHAHA i went to this game:D and i have no memory of this weird?

[valmiustila]

There's nothing qestionable.

[mattcarlucci]

Nothing questionable about that. As obvious an NHL call gets.

[Rick951]

The most amazing thing about this video was that Raycroft actually made the save.

[MyHuns]

@Rick951  exactly

[getallgunzhere]

i remember watching tis 2 years ago pavol demitra was saying in the intermission that he felt he was lucky and felt raycroft didnt read it well but anyways GO CANUCKS!!!!

[x30xSabresFan]

why are you complaining the goalie stoped it

[jackavsfan]

OWNED by Raycroft.

[plasterdbastard]

How is that a questionable call? You slapped the stick, it made contact with a pass. That's in the NHL rulebook.

I'm just happy the refs made a bleeding call. I'm sick of watching them jam their entire hands in their ass rather than make a call.

[shanimal47]

Not intentional, but the ref made the right call.

[jmiller006]

laperriere seems to think that intent has anything to do with it, when everyone knows it doesn't. accident or not, if you shoot a stick at a player with the puck or hit the puck mid-pass, it's a penalty. no arguing with it.

[bnumber8]

@jmiller006 What's the book say about a pass hitting a stick that was moved before the pass was made? How long does a moved stick stay a penalty risk? If you push the stick behind the net and a pass three touches later hits it, penalty?

[Th3ch0s3n0n3s]

@bnumber8 That would fall under the category of unintentional, but as jmiller said, (and he is right) intent has nothing to do with it. He shot a stick, and it interfered a pass. Simple as that. And as for your other ridiculous questions, if you don't know the answer to those, then I suggest you see your doctor. You may be mentally retarded.

[bnumber8]

@Th3ch0s3n0n3s With such elite use of numbers as letters, I don't think I can even respond

[Th3ch0s3n0n3s]

@bnumber8 So your excuse for not responding (which you did anyway, you retard) is my name? Not anything I said? I take that as you conceding that we are right and you are wrong, you realize the error in your previous statement, and are deflecting your embarrassment at being wrong by poking fun at my username. It's ok, I can handle your pathetic attempts to make fun of me.

[bnumber8]

@Th3ch0s3n0n3s I just usually like to keep pointless conflict out of my life these days. Nothing I say is going to convince some dumbass on youtube of anything so why should I put out the effort?

[Th3ch0s3n0n3s]

@bnumber8 Then why did you even bother saying anything? You make no sense. Both on this matter and the call on the ice.

[G19PX4]

After carefully watching this multiple times, there is no doubt the referees made the right call, no doubt about that one.

[vinchch]

@G19PX4 no doubt about u being such a fagget cumbag

[IKnowImAnAsshole]

If a defending player shots, bats, or throws a stic in the defending zone and it makes contact with an opposing player in possesion of the puck, or the puck its self, a penalty shot shall be awarded.

There you go, have a nice day

[IKnowImAnAsshole]

long story short, you cannot shoot a broken or dropped stick, if its broken you leave it where it is, if its dropped you can pick it up and HAND it to a team mate. thats about it.

[jackavsfan]

You are allowed to shoot the stick away with your stick, but like IKIAA said, if it hits a member of the other team who has the puck or if it hits the puck itself than it's a penalty shot. He was trying to move the stick so that it wouldn't cause a funny deflection when Van. shot, but he accidentally hit the puck.

[220891nb]

penalty, definately. Doesnt look like it was on purpose, just trying to get the stick out the way, but got in the way of the puck.

The same way as a player trying to get the puck, but their stick gets caught in other players legs for a tripping call.

[hankwilliams3rd]

He shot the stick, the stick happened to get in the way of a pass, penalty. The ref HAS to call that, intentional or not.

In the same manner an accidental high stick is called, this is too. I am a Canucks fan, but I had to admit, I do not believe this was intentional.

[sakic199]

Watch it again, thats questionable at best, he shot the stick BEFORE the pass was made, and AWAY from where the puck was at the time. If he had been trying to break up the play don't you think he would have swept the stick towards the Canuck player?

Doesn't matter anyways cause Colorado blows balls this year...

[muffinkevin]

That's definitely questionable.....He shot the stick in that direction before the puck was shot there.

[XSupaDudeX]

I agree with Tanker. That is not Questionable.

[tanker8888]

hows that a questionable call you retard. The ref has to call that, its an automatic call when a player shoots a broken stick at the puck while the other team is in possesion.