Jan Rutta playing Basketball during Overtime

[Mattb124]

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

He is a good player and really hard to knock off the puck, seems to receive very little press around the league.

 

[Pablo El Perro]

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.

It's obviously different. Just saying that interference itself has too many grey areas. If a player doesn't have the puck, he doesn't have the puck. It should be simple, but the exceptions make it not so.

 

[I am Bettman]

Did everybody just now figure out that picks are a part of hockey too? Most of these players are taught to set picks to open up space. Look for it in the next game you watch and it becomes pretty apparent.

 

[tarheelhockey]

Did everybody just now figure out that picks are a part of hockey too? Most of these players are taught to set picks to open up space. Look for it in the next game you watch and it becomes pretty apparent.

These picks in particular, all three of them, are blatant penalties. The rules against this are explicit and there’s no excuse for letting them go.

This is on the level of when guys used to just hook the puck carrier and water-ski, and the refs would just stare as if this was some sort of subtle trick.

 

[I am Bettman]

These picks in particular, all three of them, are blatant penalties. The rules against this are explicit and there’s no excuse for letting them go.

This is on the level of when guys used to just hook the puck carrier and water-ski, and the refs would just stare as if this was some sort of subtle trick.

Picks like this are just as common at 5 on 5 in my opinion. They just happen one or two plays in advance compared to three on three.

 

[VivaLasVegas]

He's throwing picks, which is common strategy in basketball, less so in hockey because it's interference...and I believe in basketball the last ones are called 'dirty picks'. But I haven't played basketball in over a decade and a half so, ymmv.

In basketball it is called a "moving pick" and is indeed a foul. You can set a legal pick only if stationary. And, yes, NBA officiating is arguably worse than the NHL.

 

[OrrNumber4]

Oof, I don't know. In the first one, he ultimately plays the puck. On the other two, he doesn't initiate contact at all.

 

[TheNumber4]

The NHL doesn’t even know it’s own rules, nor do the broadcasters, nor do the coaches, nor do the players, nor do the fans.

REFORM THE RULEBOOK.

 

[ccman68]

meh if you can’t beat the sharks this is what you deserve