Because, no matter what happens, Bruins fans will still believe the refs and the DOPS are intentionally against Boston.
This clearly should have been a minor penalty, no matter what team the player is on.
Was Krejci's glove-down legal?
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Because, no matter what happens, Bruins fans will still believe the refs and the DOPS are intentionally against Boston.
This clearly should have been a minor penalty, no matter what team the player is on.
tarheelhockey
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This is the kind of play you’d put on a training video to explain what IS a penalty.
HockeyMomx2
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So fast you and numerous others fail to see puck is actually batted INTO HIS OWN KNEE and THEN goes forward off his knee. It wasn't called because he batted the puck DOWN as is allowed. It just hit his knee instead of ice first. No call because there shouldn't have been.
Umm..no, comes nowhere near his knee.....I don't know if it rises to the point of a penalty though, it's CLEARLY one motion
HockeyMomx2
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No. It's really not. If anything it should be used to prove to you all that the human eye sometimes just straight up misses stuff or becomes convinced of a 'truth' just because someone said it was so. . Puck off knee and then forward is not a penalty.
HockeyMomx2
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Pause the damn thing if you need to, it hits his knee/pants then goes to ice. Fact, video don't lie.
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Your quote of the rule and what is allowed is exactly what Krejci does so it is legal according to what you have there.
wintersej
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He hits it down IMMEDIATELY and it goes off his own knee? What am I missing here?
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I don’t think the refs are part of some anti bruins conspiracy. However, I do think the refs have progressively gotten worse the last few seasons.
They are inconsistent and at times incompetent. They miss obvious calls but see phantom penalties. Sometimes I think it is intentional (in the game management sense not the conspiracy sense) but most times I chalk it up to just being bad.
I do wonder if the speed of the game makes it easier for refs to miss some stuff or to call something that didn’t happen because they think it did.
Krejci definitely seemed to have gotten away with it but I also think his speed and movement helped them miss the call.
I don't know why that matters since a player is allowed to catch the puck and I clearly saw it go off his knee as well. I watched a different clip that was in slow motion and it's clear as day, this gif you have to pause it and it is also clear that it goes off his knee.
Probably the fact that he threw it and it didnt touch his knee? Just a guess though.
tarheelhockey
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The hell are you talking about? The puck never hit his knee.
Slow-mo it at 25%. You can very clearly see Krejci flip it forward, past the defender.
That’s a textbook penalty.
I suggest the same to you. This knee thing must be the bruins board talking point. Please feel free to show the angle of it touching Krejci's knee.
Edit: Here I am going against my own advice earlier in this thread.
A player is allowed to catch the puck, he threw it down immediately, whether it touches his knee or not isn't that relevant since this all happened in a fraction of a second and he obviously did not have that much control over where the puck was going.
It's illegal but so is 99% of the time a guy catches the puck in the air. almost everyone closes their hand over it and tosses it down in front of themselves. rarely gets called. Honestly this one wasn't even the worst I've seen go uncalled. it looks worse because he tosses it by staal and jumps around him in the process but total time from when he grabs it to release is actually fairly quick. staal should have thrown a check and it would have been all good.
The problem is, it's not, it's clearly one motion, while the rule says he must catch AND skate with it, I don't see that, it's all one motion, I don't know if it rises to the point of a penalty, but it sure as hell didn't go off his knee.
He can bat the puck down, he cant throw the puck to give himself a 2 on 1. The rule is literally posted on this page. Take the time to read it.
The rule says that a player is allowed to catch the puck. It only says that a penalty will be called if the player doesn't immediately place the puck down and if he skates with the puck then a penalty would be called for closing the hand on the puck, Krejci did not skate with the puck, he caught it and threw it down in a fraction of a second.
The rule says that a player can catch the puck as long as it is immediately thrown down. It doesn't say what you are saying.
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