Ovechkin scores 2 goals in 30 seconds but nope

[Hackett]

will say this though, ovechkin wouldnt have acted that way unless he really thought he hit it.

Or it was one of the greatest sell jobs of all time. He did not flinch for even a second.

It may have barely grazed off of his stick. Enough that Ovechkin felt it, but not enough to see the puck visibly change its trajectory.

Ref called it no goal, and I don't blame him. There was no conclusive evidence to overturn it, and the call was made accordingly.

 

[Knave]

I don't think it's much of a sell job either. You're not going to feel a fluttering puck touch (not hit or land on) your stick but since sticks when on the ice are always at an angle - he might have seen the puck + his stick and just assumed they hit each other.

 

[illpucks]

I don't think it's much of a sell job either. You're not going to feel a fluttering puck touch (not hit or land on) your stick but since sticks when on the ice are always at an angle - he might have seen the puck + his stick and just assumed they hit each other.

Players like Ovi and Crosby see the game in 1/1000 of seconds so they pick up things like this.

 

[Healthy DiPietro]

Even though Ovechkin probably knows that it didn't touch his stick you can't really blame him for trying to sell it. Who wouldn't?

 

[snipes]

It was the correct call. Rewatched the replays of it again, he clearly hands the puck into the net.

From all the angles, I saw no evidence it touched a stick.

 

[Hackett]

I don't think it's much of a sell job either. You're not going to feel a fluttering puck touch (not hit or land on) your stick but since sticks when on the ice are always at an angle - he might have seen the puck + his stick and just assumed they hit each other.

But that's still an assumption, which would mean that he would still have some doubt in his mind. He still didn't flinch for a second to reflect that doubt. That's a pretty good sell job to me.

 

[Sam Spade]

Can you imagine if this happened to Toews or Crosby? 100% would have counted. In the same situation, not a goal that makes a game 4 or 5 to nothing.

Good on the refs and the replay people for getting this right I guess.

 

[Novak Djokovic]

Can you imagine if this happened to Toews or Crosby? 100% would have counted.

Good on the refs and the replay people for getting this right I guess.

How do you know that?

 

[Shakey Rustie]

How do you know that?

Western propaganda obviously

 

[Sam Spade]

How do you know that?

The environment the game is being played in.

But nevermind I'm sure IF it would have been waved off initially the replay officials would confirm the call on the ice.

 

[ijuka]

Looking at it again, I do think it hit his stick as the puck begun spinning faster.

I also do think that Ovechkin wouldn't have done a sell job like that if he didn't think it hit. It was way too convincing.


That said, I can't really blame the refs. Needs to be 100% conclusive to overturn a call on ice.

 

[canadaishockey4*]

Can you imagine if this happened to Toews or Crosby? 100% would have counted. In the same situation, not a goal that makes a game 4 or 5 to nothing.

Good on the refs and the replay people for getting this right I guess.

Lmao people love having their own little conspiracy theories and tinfoil hats don't they.

 

[Crosbyfan]

It is really difficult, or at least not simple, to analyze a fluttering puck. I think the right call was made but at the same time give Ovie the benefit of the doubt if he felt he grazed it. If he honestly thought he felt contact he probably did.

 

[Sam Spade]

Lmao people love having their own little conspiracy theories and tinfoil hats don't they.

Canada is a juggernaut and they will win this tourney easily.

I am talking about a specific incident that would, in MY mind, certainly be influenced by things other than what actually happens on the ice.

No big deal.

 

[Auston Marlander]

It was a good goal, he bat it down to the ice, players do that all the time, its legal, and then tapped it in with the stick.

That's literally not what happened at all.

 

[JackHughes86]

russia played terrible

 

[Beau Knows]

Can you imagine if this happened to Toews or Crosby? 100% would have counted. In the same situation, not a goal that makes a game 4 or 5 to nothing.

Good on the refs and the replay people for getting this right I guess.

 

[El Travo]

People mad about Russia playing competent hockey for 30 seconds and not being rewarded for it. Ha.

Wasn't a good goal. I'm a huge OV fan, but he already tried to sell a call earlier in the game, so I'm not buying the "he wouldn't react like that!" narrative.

 

[Sam Spade]

People mad about Russia playing competent hockey for 30 seconds and not being rewarded for it. Ha.

Wasn't a good goal. I'm a huge OV fan, but he already tried to sell a call earlier in the game, so I'm not buying the "he wouldn't react like that!" narrative.

You know how people always laugh at the "if not for the goalie we would have won that game" narrative? Well if not for those last thirty seconds......

Also I'm not seeing any anger in this thread.

 

[Arthuros]

Meh. I feel like it's inconclusive enough that if the call on the ice was the other way around, it wouldn't have been turned over.

 

[Sam Spade]

Meh. I feel like it's inconclusive enough that if the call on the ice was the other way around, it wouldn't have been turned over.

Exactly how I feel.

 

[Divine]

Meh. I feel like it's inconclusive enough that if the call on the ice was the other way around, it wouldn't have been turned over.

Exactly how I feel.

I feel that if it was a goal on the ice, it would have been overturned. Nothing suggests he touched the puck. I can conclusively say he did not touch the puck. People trying to analyze the spin of a spinning puck in the air have no understanding of gravity, aerodynamics and velocity. If anything, if Ovechkin hit that pick, it would have lost spin, not gained it.

 

[PensPlz]

You can deflect the puck if it deflects off you. But you can't redirect the puck with anything but your stick.

Otherwise, you could just grab the puck and throw it into the net, but then it's an entirely different sport. The US goal was correctly called off yesterday for the same reason, he consciously redirected the puck with the body.

Except there is another rule that says you can't close your hand on the puck.... so you actually can't GRAB the puck, and that's good. Shouldn't be able too. But I don't see a problem with knocking or batting a puck TO THE ICE (not directly into the net) and then having it inadvertently bounce into the net because the goalie is out to lunch.

 

[dechire]

Except there is another rule that says you can't close your hand on the puck.... so you actually can't GRAB the puck, and that's good. Shouldn't be able too. But I don't see a problem with knocking or batting a puck TO THE ICE (not directly into the net) and then having it inadvertently bounce into the net because the goalie is out to lunch.

You're relating it to the wrong rule. Imagine instead that the puck bounced off his hand and his teammate touched it. The play would then be blown dead whether it was on purpose or not.

 

[Fantomas]

It's a matter of inches. This game can be pretty frustrating.