Stutzle goal called off due to “interference”

[castle]

Hold on to your stick. All there is to say. Terrible call.

 

[umma gumma]

It's a soft call but he pretty clearly knocks the stick out of his hands. I'm actually quite shocked this is 7 pages long.

Well of course, the Carolina player was holding his stick near the butt end with one hand and reaching. There isn't much of a grip in that situation, doesn't take a whole lot to lose it. I mean, all defending players have to do is drop their stick any time the attacking player winds up for a shot which will send his stick flying. Is that what we want in the game?

 

[Dicky113]

Bruins fan here, no skin in this game.
That may be the dumbest call I’ve ever seen

 

[All Mod Cons]

Clear interference

 

[Warden of the North]

I watched this about 10 times trying to find interference before I realized what I was supposed to be seeing.

Wtf

 

[OrangePMD]

Guys on Coming in Hot asked Dave Jackson about this one, says the ref got it wrong,

starts at around 10 mins in

I'm about 22 minutes in on this, and it's so good. Dave Jackson is a gem.

 

[Golden_Jet]

The Dave Jackson interview was a good one, all officiating talk.
He says it was a bad call.

 

[Toby91ca]

I can't call it the dumbest call in the word, but it's a frustrating one as a lot of these have tended to be automatic penalties, you slash a guys stick out of his hands or lift a stick too aggressively and through the stick through the air....it's a penalty, but how do you assess whether it should be, meaning, the other player is responsible for holding on to his stick as well. Some would say, well, you did slash the stick, that isn't allowed right? The answer to that is yes, that's true, technically that is slashing, but obviously you can't call every little thing like that, there would be 25 penalties every shift.

I think this one, if the ref is simply watching those 2 players the whole way he would have probably assessed that he didn't slash the stick hard enough for it to be considered a penalty, but did he see it out of the side of his head? I can see where the call is made.

 

[CanesUltimate11]

I can't call it the dumbest call in the word, but it's a frustrating one as a lot of these have tended to be automatic penalties, you slash a guys stick out of his hands or lift a stick too aggressively and through the stick through the air....it's a penalty, but how do you assess whether it should be, meaning, the other player is responsible for holding on to his stick as well. Some would say, well, you did slash the stick, that isn't allowed right? The answer to that is yes, that's true, technically that is slashing, but obviously you can't call every little thing like that, there would be 25 penalties every shift.

I think this one, if the ref is simply watching those 2 players the whole way he would have probably assessed that he didn't slash the stick hard enough for it to be considered a penalty, but did he see it out of the side of his head? I can see where the call is made.

The fact that the play leads directly to a goal is likely what draws the call. That same play happens at center ice and Stuzle is simply trying to dump the puck in on a line change and they don't call it. But since the end result of the "penalty" is essentially a wide open goal that is at least partially disrupted/challenged if Svech still has his stick they call it.

 

[tarheelhockey]

I think this one, if the ref is simply watching those 2 players the whole way he would have probably assessed that he didn't slash the stick hard enough for it to be considered a penalty, but did he see it out of the side of his head? I can see where the call is made.

I suspect the ref has seen the replays on this and realizes it was a misjudgment. Some things are just really hard to evaluate at full speed from a flat angle when there are other things happening in the vicinity. In this case there were two guys crossing directly in front of the ref, one of whom was the original puck carrier. So not only is his angle blocked, but his focus shifted at that instant from the guys in front of him to the action in front of the net. He likely didn’t have a good look at what actually happened to cause the stick to go flying, only that it went flying right before the goal.

This sort of thing is why we’ll never have “great” officiating in the sport of hockey, it’s just too dependent on angles and subjective interpretations. Stuff like this happens at every level, and is as much part of the game as random puck bounces.

 

[Golden_Jet]

The fact that the play leads directly to a goal is likely what draws the call. That same play happens at center ice and Stuzle is simply trying to dump the puck in on a line change and they don't call it. But since the end result of the "penalty" is essentially a wide open goal that is at least partially disrupted/challenged if Svech still has his stick they call it.

Ex referee Dave Jackson called it a bad call.