What are your thoughts about the OT winner by Chicago?
Hawks win 3-2 on Havlat’s OT goal
Flames upset at no-call
Miikka Kiprusoff maintained after the Blackhawks’ 3-2 overtime win that he was interfered with on Martin Havlat’s game-winning goal.
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Looked like a pretty blatant non-call to me, Kiprusoff couldn’t couldn’t get his stick to the puck because the chicago player (#16) had half his body in the crease and Kiprusoff’s blocker was caught up in him. Unfortunately, refs sometimes don’t make these calls because they don’t want the game to be decided by a blown call. But in this case, the game was decided on a blown non-call, which is just as bad.
Looking at it closer, I guess the chicago forward (Ladd) was pushed into the crease, but he didn’t really put up much of a fight to stay out of it either. From the behind the net camara view it looked like the flames D (Leopold) actually pushed Ladd wide, but ladd changed his direction to be pushed into the goalie instead of off to the side.
I think the goal actually entered the net before any contact. I don’t understand your use of the word “blatant”, for it was anything but. No doubt he was pushed into Kipper.
It looks to me that the person in question (Ladd) was pushed in to the crease by (Leopold). If the offensive player is pushed into the defensive crease, it shouldn’t be interference.