GAME DAY: Ottawa Senators @ Vancouver Canucks – 10:00PM EST, Saturday, March 13, 2010

wprager wrote:Actually, about that screen cap above, his stick is actually being brought down to delect the puck, and the puck hits close to the middle of the stick, not the blade.

What they need to do is make sure all unis have a couple of stripes or other easy to spot items around the shoulder/chest/waist regions, then immediately after a questionable goal have the scorer go and stand next to the goal, so they can get a visual cue as to where the cross-bar is relative to those markers.

But in any case, no matter what they eventually decided to do, it is *ridiculous* that, in this day and age, with the tech available to us, they could not get the video to the on-ice officials. Hell, the time-keeper must have a laptop, what would it cost to provide in-house wireless streaming from the replay booth? Ideally they need a high-def monitor at the time-keeper's area, hooked up (wireless would be cheap and easy) to the upstairs replay booth. Surely, if they can stream the video to guys in Toronto, 100s if not 1000s of kilometers away, it would be even easier to stream it only 100 feet or so.

wprager wrote:I'm also ticked off because that would have been another assist for Karlsson. He's 4 points behind Hedman (who sis floundering -- he is something like -7 in his last 6 games and his ice time has gone down from 20 to 13 or something like that -- yeah, Tocchet noticed). Don't know why it's important to me but it is. I want our 19-year-old Swedish rookie defenseman to be better than theirs. It's as simple as that.

Dash wrote:I saw the highlights and it looked like he made contact on the way down, and it wasn't convincing it was a high stick, but I didn't see or hear much from Ottawa in the way of protesting that would make me think it wasn't?

Dash wrote:I saw the highlights and it looked like he made contact on the way down, and it wasn't convincing it was a high stick, but I didn't see or hear much from Ottawa in the way of protesting that would make me think it wasn't?

Cory Clouston had something to get off his chest.

The Senators coach was still miffed Friday about Milan Michalek’s disallowed goal vs. the Flames Thursday in Calgary.

Clouston can’t understand why Michalek’s marker in the first period was called back because of a high stick.

“It’s frustrating and disappointing,” said Clouston. “In my opinion, unless Milan is eight feet tall, where the puck touched his stick and with his feet flat on the ground, it had to have been no more than three feet off of the ice. His feet were planted on the ice, his arms were tight to his body and it hit lower on the shaft of his stick.

“You don’t have to have any angle, other than to see where his feet are and where the puck hit his stick, to know there’s no way it could have been over the crossbar.”

Michalek tipped a point shot from defenceman Erik Karlsson by Miikka Kiprusoff at 7:36 of the first with the Flames leading 1-0 on a goal by Jamal Mayers.

One of the refs — either Tom Kowal or Rob Martel — waved it off immediately.

The play went to video review, but the word from the league’s head office in Toronto is the NHL didn’t have the proper tape to overrule the call made by the official. That meant his call has to stand.

SpezDispenser wrote:

Dash wrote:I saw the highlights and it looked like he made contact on the way down, and it wasn't convincing it was a high stick, but I didn't see or hear much from Ottawa in the way of protesting that would make me think it wasn't?

There wasn't much we could do, they went upstairs and they called it no goal in the war room as well. It was close, but it was a goal in my eyes for sure.