ECQF Game 5: Florida Panthers @ Toronto Maple Leafs | 7PM ET | TNT, CBC, SN, TVAS

[DearDiary]

Are goalies not allowed to get up after the whistle? How long should they be forced to be frozen in place?

 

[DistantThunderRep]

Sportnet has the replay with sound on full and there's no whistle heard whatsoever. Sucks that it didn't count though.

Intent to blow is actually a thing in the NHL rulebook according to shenaningans a few years ago

 

[Auston Marlander]

The angle outside the blue line didn't do anything to show the puck crossed the line, and the rules are very clear that you can't 1+1 that type of thing to guess where the puck fully is even if it seems like common sense.

There was no angle to overturn the call.

You are missing my point, that I have mentioned several times. There is no single angle to show it was over. So it's no goal.

There are 2 angles that show it was over, 1 showing which part of the pad it was under and another showing that part of the pad was over the line. But unfortunately for the Leafs you can't call it a good goal like that, you need one angle showing the puck clearly over the line, not deductive reasoning showing proving it's over.

 

[hatterson]

The ref didn't blow the whistle because Rielly was celebrating. He blew the whistle because the puck was under Bob's pad and thus covered.

The actual question was if the puck went over the line while under the pad right near the start of the play as Bob is sliding over to the post. Intent to blow the whistle doesn't matter at all because the relevant piece of the play was when it was still a live puck.

 

[EdJovanovski]

Sportsnet are like 50% of the reason I hate the Leafs. FFS, how do I get the American feed?

 

[Contenderorpretender]

You can't just cheer a goal into existence lol.

Tampa literally did it in the last series

 

[Just Rude]

My baseball team went 86 years without winning a championship. I feel ya leafs fans. Especially when you consider there will be teams in Houston, Atlanta, Quebec and if I had it my way....Hartford in the next 10 years. Odds will be even tougher.....

I’m no Sox fan but man was I ever in ‘04. That comeback was f***ing epic and that Damon grand slam. Never forget it.

 

[BB79]

My baseball team went 86 years without winning a championship. I feel ya leafs fans. Especially when you consider there will be teams in Houston, Atlanta, Quebec and if I had it my way....Hartford in the next 10 years. Odds will be even tougher.....

I'd love to see Hartford get the Whale back too,but I doubt it'll ever happen. Well, A LOT needs to happen, and it's such a small market...but we have the Coyotes soap opera out west so you never know

 

[AcerComputer]

That was not the call. The play was dead before the puck went in. And the only reason the puck went in was because the ref blew the whistle causing Bobrovsky to pull his leg back as he got up

Whistle never blew. But the puck was under the pad the whole time, it trickling in after he shakes it loose, proves it was in, just like when the goalie catches the puck behind the line.

 

[Felidae]

Wow someone on the panel defending the call. Unsurprisingly it's hrudey the goaltender.

 

[Sheppy]

Hrudey is 100% correct there.

I didn’t think I’d ever say that…

 

[Ducer]

conspiracy there was no whistle.

 

[Svencouver]

Watching it live, I'm surprised the whistle is the point of contention. I thought it went under Bob's stake and over the line to begin with

 

[kwichang]

I never thought the controversial call would be about a WHISTLE. . . goalie interference, offsides, crappy penalties maybe but never a whistle

 

[Oilslick941611]

It's coming. 100 percent. The Leafs have taken over.

For sure, Panthers are on their heels.

 

[Gil Gunderson]

Didn’t the Leafs benefit from a Tampa goal being called off due to quick whistle in the first round?

 

[robertocarlos]

Continuation rule? What is this, Dodgeball?

 

[Channelcat]

Yeah honestly if he doesn't celly then they likely keep play going a bit longer there.

Great point. And likely it is a goal in that case.

 

[DearDiary]

Whistle never blew. But the puck was under the pad the whole time, it trickling in after he shakes it loose, proves it was in, just like when the goalie catches the puck behind the line.

Whistle 100% blew. It's not even debatable, they showed the play with clear sound on TNT

 

[NeelyWasAWarrior]

I’m no Sox fan but man was I ever in ‘04. That comeback was f***ing epic and that Damon grand slam. Never forget it.

Legendary season that's for sure!

 

[TheBeard]

You can see it stuck under the pad. You can also see its well above skate level where its stuck. You can see the skate fully over the line, but not much more than that. Again, how can you see how if there is white ice between the puck and the line? If anything when Bobrovsky lifts the pad and the puck slides into the net, you can see it wasn't over the line prior to him lifting it. What you can't see is if Bob moved his pad forward before that moment when we can finally see the puck.

This is 100% accurate but you won’t get many leaf fans to see it this way.

 

[Divine]

Didn’t the Leafs benefit from a Tampa goal being called off due to quick whistle in the first round?

Tampa actually got a goal on continuation last series

 

[Despote]

Bobrovsky: stands up after hearing the whistle and pushes the puck he was protecting before that in
Leafs fans: RIGGED LEAGUE DON'T YOU SEE THIS ANGLE SHOWS IT WAS IN HOW IS THAT NOT A GOAL REFS HATE TORONTO OMFG!!!!!

 

[Matty Sundin]

Ron McLean is cooked

 

[Clint Eastwood]

No goal was the right call.