These goalie interference calls are getting ridiculous

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Stop skating into the crease, you numnuts.
I think they should make the crease smaller (shorter). I mean guys are supposed to “go to the net”. Sure, you’d still have instances when guys were in the crease and making contact with the goalie, but at least then they’d *really* be in the crease rather than 6’ from the net like they are now.
 

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I think they should make the crease smaller (shorter). I mean guys are supposed to “go to the net”. Sure, you’d still have instances when guys were in the crease and making contact with the goalie, but at least then they’d *really* be in the crease rather than 6’ from the net like they are now.
I think you'd get resistance to that the same way there's resistance to making the nets bigger. :)
 

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Good luck with that the only thing that happened in the replay was Benson taking hits post play which should have been the only real penalty.
Benson was boxed out from leaving the crease and the defender has a right to that ice outside the crease. I doubt there was any intention to do anything like dumping Benson on top of Binnington or anything else anywhere near as dramatic as what you were describing.

Personally if it was me out there* and I saw my partner deliberately shove an attacker into our goaltender I'd be pissed at my partner regardless. You don't risk hurting our guy in net for the sake of brief silly shenanigans.
*: I can't skate and almost never play, but when I have played hockey-like games I've been on defense.
 

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I sneezed on the bus, causing the Uber driver to catch a cold, which he passed to Saros, who then missed the puck. Goalie interference on me.
That's only interference if you and the driver had both entered the crease under your own power and had yet to leave it at the time you sneezed.
(And if you pulled that off somehow, I want video. :amazed: ;) )
 

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Goalies are too protected at this point.

Factor in the inconsistent interpretation case by case and the fact the NHL works so hard to negate goals while simultaneously artificially inflating scores with increased PP rates and it is rather confusing.
 
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Goalies are too protected at this point.

Factor in the inconsistent interpretation case by case and the fact the NHL works so hard to negate goals while simultaneously artificially inflating scores with increased PP rates and it is rather confusing.
This is not one of those cases. Clearly goaltender interference
 

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For all the questionable ones that happen I don’t understand why people complain about these ones. It’s pretty clear and from everything I’ve seen they call these consistently.

Benson skates into the goalies crease. While the defensemen is there at the edge of the crease he isn’t pushing Benson in and Benson isn’t making a notable effort to get out.

That is the goalie’s ice. Regardless of how little or even if there’s no contact, if him being there is in the way of the goalie pushing out to the top of his crease unimpeded its goaltender interference whether you like it or not. And it’s much better this way than if you’re just judging off contact. Goalie’s would just end up having to make the contact happen or sell it to get the call. They’re supposed to be able to play their position freely in the crease. If a player impedes them from doing so it’s GI


Already had a whole debate on this earlier in the year for the Rempe one. Here’s some easy to find examples of similar situations including the Rempe one and one on Carlson yesterday.


Pretty consistent if you ask me. And by the book if you look at the rules.
 

ChadBigly

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This one isn't ridiculous at all. It's obvious enough that you can tell even without the overhead angle. The onus is on Benson to stay the hell out of the crease.
Yes it IS ridiculous. You are obviously new to the game or you would know this.
 

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They do. If you have skated into the crease under your own power, and you contact the goaltender before you have left, You Are At Fault. End of story. No ifs, ands, or buts.
No. A tiny bit of incidental contact used to be perfectly fine and it still should be. The whole reason they relaxed the skate in the crease rule was because they wanted to make the whole thing more of a no harm no foul situation. So tell me --- where is the harm in these tiny touches of the edge of the goalies blocker? How did it prevent him from playing the position? We might as well call any screen goalie interference too. It prevents him from playing the position even more than touching his blocker does. IT IS F..KING BEYOND A JOKE AT THIS POINT. Last year was nowhere near this bad. There were plenty of questionable ones, and it's been steadily getting worse for ages, but its every single time now. This rule is being implemented WRONG. Last year there's no way St Louis goes for that challenge because they wouldn't have got it. But they seem to have seen the writing on the wall. This situation is only gonna get worse unless they address this.
 

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For all the questionable ones that happen I don’t understand why people complain about these ones. It’s pretty clear and from everything I’ve seen they call these consistently.

Benson skates into the goalies crease. While the defensemen is there at the edge of the crease he isn’t pushing Benson in and Benson isn’t making a notable effort to get out.

That is the goalie’s ice. Regardless of how little or even if there’s no contact, if him being there is in the way of the goalie pushing out to the top of his crease unimpeded its goaltender interference whether you like it or not. And it’s much better this way than if you’re just judging off contact. Goalie’s would just end up having to make the contact happen or sell it to get the call. They’re supposed to be able to play their position freely in the crease. If a player impedes them from doing so it’s GI


Already had a whole debate on this earlier in the year for the Rempe one. Here’s some easy to find examples of similar situations including the Rempe one and one on Carlson yesterday.


Pretty consistent if you ask me. And by the book if you look at the rules.
These are all f..cken bulls..t, and i'm tired of pretending they're not.

You used to have to actually interfere with the goalie for them to call interference.
 

ChadBigly

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I've thought of a better way to put this. The spirit of the law is more important than the letter of the law. At least in this case it should be. These calls are massively pedantic, and while they satisfy the letter of the law (in an anal-retentive, OCD kind of way) they violate the spirit of the law. We've gone too far with this, and we need to go back.
 

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For all the questionable ones that happen I don’t understand why people complain about these ones. It’s pretty clear and from everything I’ve seen they call these consistently.

Benson skates into the goalies crease. While the defensemen is there at the edge of the crease he isn’t pushing Benson in and Benson isn’t making a notable effort to get out.

That is the goalie’s ice. Regardless of how little or even if there’s no contact, if him being there is in the way of the goalie pushing out to the top of his crease unimpeded its goaltender interference whether you like it or not. And it’s much better this way than if you’re just judging off contact. Goalie’s would just end up having to make the contact happen or sell it to get the call. They’re supposed to be able to play their position freely in the crease. If a player impedes them from doing so it’s GI


Already had a whole debate on this earlier in the year for the Rempe one. Here’s some easy to find examples of similar situations including the Rempe one and one on Carlson yesterday.


Pretty consistent if you ask me. And by the book if you look at the rules.
pretty consistent until you show the 999 that look similar and aren't interfernece....so consistent though right. To add even more the goal was like 2-3 seconds after the contact from Benson unlike these so the goalie had time to get into position.
 

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