What is Goalie Interference? Isles VS Blue Jackets

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In an important wildcard matchup, the game is tied and the final minute and the islanders score with 10 seconds left. The ref decides to wave it off and then there was a review and they upheld the call.

Palmieris skates were never in the crease. Elvis Merzlikins initiated the contact also he had time to reset.
Horrible in a game this important at the end of the year.

What is goalie interference??









 
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In an important wildcard matchup, the game is tied and the final minute and the islanders score with 10 seconds left. The ref decides to wave it off and then there was a review and they upheld the call.

Palmieri a skates were never in the crease. Elvis Merzlikins initiated the contact also he had time to reset.
Horrible in a game this important at the end of the year.

What is goalie interference??






Might as well put the video for the one that counted earlier too.
 
Looks like GTI to me. Goalie had to push Palmieri out of the way to get to the establish his position in the crease, and didn’t have time to reset before the shot on goal was taken.

Goalie didn’t HAVE push him at all. He chose to and initiated that contact. Palmieris skates were never in the crease.

If I was a goalie I would just throw myself at the closest opposing player anytime there was a crowd or a screened shot in that case.
 
Yup, interference, good call, Toronto confirmed.
The substantive decision, while probably wrong, wasn't even the main problem. It was a procedural issue first and foremost. That ref had zero business emphatically waving off the goal as interference when it was not a clear call. Toronto didn't "confirm" - they failed to overrule (are you one of those people who say, "They found the defendant innocent"? :rolleyes:). It was a borderline call and there wasn't enough in the video for them to overrule the call on the ice. The ref should have let it go and allow the Situation Room to review and make the call. If a player steamrolls a goalie or does something else obvious or egregious, then sure, make the call on the ice. But for a ref to emphatically make a call on a play like that, when Toronto is going to review it anyway and has the luxury of time, slow motion, multiple replays, etc., is ridiculous.

That was a ref deciding to be the show, pure and simple.
 

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