Too bad at the missed ROW, but if this team plays like it can--pack of wolves-y--then that's not something we need to be worried about. Still, it stinks to have such an emotional goal taken off the board for such a dumb reason.
And while it would help if Scheifele would ever make
any attempt to stay onside, it's such an awful rule that allows for irrelevant offside challenges. While everyone blames Matt Duchene for what happened--he'll be judged before the hockey gods one day--it wasn't really his fault, or even the fault of the linesman who whiffed on the call so badly. The real culprit was the GM or GMs who saw it, and instead of recognizing that it was an egregious, once every 20 years, outlier of a missed call, decided they needed blood. I don't know if it was Poile, but I'm just going to assume it was.
Anyhow, I hate hate hate the offside challenge and I always will. But at this point they're the only ones used because no one knows what goaltender interference is, and you'll get a penalty if the coin flip goes the wrong way.
Yes, I recognize that the Jets have drawn the short straw on that rule for a couple of seasons now, so I'm not entirely unbiased, but the linesmen do a rather good job of calling the lines, and there's no challenge for icing or tripping, or any number of things that can impact the game just as much as offside.
It's broken.
btw, not that it is a problem, just curious, how come Ehlers never gets to shoot penalties? He was pretty good in Halifax and for the NT.
In '17/'18 he had about 10 breakaways and I'm not sure he scored on more than one of them. Maurice actually put him out in a shootout as a redemption attempt in a game in which he failed to convert on (at least) one, which I recall he also didn't score on.
I certainly think he's got the skills to do it, just that his poise is a little behind some other players.
But they didn't win, so...
But they only lost to documented PED users, so...
