Jan Rutta playing Basketball during Overtime

[CanadienShark]

It’s incredible how some minds function, huh?

“No, spell it out to me! You already did? What, am I supposed to go through these in chronological order or somethin? Don’t be snarky with me, I’m just asking questions!”

Really dude? This is a hockey forum, not basketball. Forgive me for not understanding some bizarre basketball reference. Show a little class, won't you?

 

[Muffin]

Everyone runs picks in 3 on 3, just normally not as blatant as this...

 

[coolboarder]

It should be a penalty for pick, it is not even a legal move in hockey.

 

[Ezekial]

I get not calling the first one but the second and third were crazy obvious.

 

[luiginb]

Lost in Rutta's being a pest is Barabanov's amazing puck control on the play

 

[MadLuke]

easily avoidable body contact

Could just be wording, but a hockey player never have to do any effort to avoid body contact with any skater no ?

"legal" basketball pick would almost all be legal in hockey as well, in the sense of establishing clearly your ice before the non puck carrier enter into you and not the other way around.

 

[Team_Spirit]

Big dub for the home squad

Game management baby

 

[Glen Sathers Cigar]

I get not calling the first one but the second and third were crazy obvious.

Yeah, that's the crazy part. It's one thing to let one go but for it happen 3 times on the same shift and possession and the 3rd leading right to what looks like a A+ scoring chance, I couldn't believe in real time the ref wasn't calling it.

It was so blatant and to happen three times in a row on the same shift was just absurd to watch go uncalled.

I know all teams try and clog lanes in OT and get in defenders' way but I feel like when they're that blatant you see penalties called 90% of the time at least.

 

[Kcoyote3]

Just goes to show any team should be able to beat the Sharks. They’re playing a different sport.

 

[Stewie Griffin]

Look at those picks and that pass...it could be yours at the deadline for a 4th round pick.

 

[AslanRH]

I am one who thinks there are really bad interference calls that should have been let go in the "pick" category. The ones where a player is standing still on the blue line and the defending player runs into him during an entry attempt I think are usually garbage calls, but these Rutta picks were blatant and atrocious.

 

[Phrasing]

Meh, sometimes you get calls, sometimes you don’t. Nothing new.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

I mean this is textbook interference right? right?

It also is everytime a defenseman stands up to impede a player who dumped the puck a couple seconds earlier. But the refs don't tend to call that. Well, unless you're Aaron Ekblad.

 

[fasterthanlight]

Those picks are the reason why we won't get good picks

 

[GG96]

It also is everytime a defenseman stands up to impede a player who dumped the puck a couple seconds earlier. But the refs don't tend to call that. Well, unless you're Aaron Ekblad.

And it should be called. They are also not the same play. Picking a defenseman who never had the puck against checking a player who just dumped it in are far different

 

[FunkySeeFunkyDo]

Playing Rutta in OT is a bold strategy.

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Really dude? This is a hockey forum, not basketball. Forgive me for not understanding some bizarre basketball reference. Show a little class, won't you?

..right, that’s where reading comprehension and chronology come in. Sorry bro, not gonna feel bad about pointing out how you’re responsible for your own confusion. You clicked the thread, didn’t read, and I’m apparently lacking class for sayin you could try harder before whining.

 

[CanadienShark]

..right, that’s where reading comprehension and chronology come in. Sorry bro, not gonna feel bad about pointing out how you’re responsible for your own confusion. You clicked the thread, didn’t read, and I’m apparently lacking class for sayin you could try harder before whining.

Fun talk. Feel free to go away.

 

[TheBeard]

I see Rangers fans have reached the Buffalo
bills fans level of coping.

 

[ZDH]

They was kinda settin' these fruity picks, man,

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[DeltaSwede]

It also is everytime a defenseman stands up to impede a player who dumped the puck a couple seconds earlier. But the refs don't tend to call that. Well, unless you're Aaron Ekblad.

I know what you mean but I think you would agree that this is a little different than that. There's more subtilty (and less impeding) than whatever this was.

 

[LarKing]

I swear, they used to call interference so much more. Now it's like you can basically interfere with anyone to a not about to get a clear breakaway to a crazy extent.

 

[Kerberos]

Meanwhile, the Oilers get called for interference when players run into our stationary guys at the blueline on PPs.

 

[The Gr8 Dane]

What a pick!

 

[Chainshot]

Some teams are really good at moving pics. Some teams aren't. *shrug*

If that had been Tampa or Boston or even the Rangers themselves doing that, it wouldn't have been any level of surprise. AND that the officiating is crap in allowing it to happen because it does happen so often now bleeds over into being bad for a team that is "supposed" to get the calls. NHL officiating inconsistency is one of the worst parts of their product. Game management, competitive team biases, the lack of calling the rules as written... makes it hard to watch or take seriously. It has and always will be a Mickey Mouse product that is a garage league.