# NHL April 2019/ Playoff Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [April 2, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923 "2019-04-02T15:04:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 20
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/381 "2019-05-17T17:18:59Z")
[For those that missed the article](https://www.cbssports.com/nhl/news/nhl-admits-it-missed-hand-pass-that-led-to-sharks-ot-winner-reportedly-removes-all-four-officials-from-playoffs/): > [@](#): > > On Thursday, NHL Executive VP Colin Campbell joined Sportsnet’s Hockey Central at Noon to discuss the unfortunate finish to Wednesday’s game. He admitted the on-ice officials missed the call. > [@](#): > > “That was the wrong call,” Campbell said. "It should’ve been a whistle if the referee had seen it live. Yes, you could probably use [Rule 38.4(ix)] but i think it has to be a discussion [before expanding use of that rule]. > > “It’s so unfair that the game ended that way. The wrong way.” > > The rule Campbell referenced in his response is one that allows the NHL to provide assistance to officials in determining whether a goal should count based on the sequence of events prior to a potential goal being scored. Under the current guidelines, the league can provide further assistance in looking at whether a puck entered the net illegally (through the goal’s meshing or underneath the net frame) or undetected by officials, as well as if a puck hit the spectator netting prior to directly entering the goal. > However, the rulebook doesn’t currently allow for hand pass plays to go to video review unless the puck enters the net as a direct result of a hand pass (i.e. it is swatted directly into the net). As a result, the Blues had no way of challenging the goal on Wednesday night. > [@](#): > > The two referees responsible for calling the Eakin major were removed from playoff assignment following the massive blunder. On Thursday, it was reported that the NHL would also remove the four on-ice officials that missed the hand-pass in Game 3. > [@](#): > > That would make four referees and two linesmen eliminated from postseason assignments as a result of costly errors that have benefited the Sharks. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/382 "2019-05-17T17:22:29Z")
Wow. But I agree. It was clearly a hand pass and that’s how the Sharks scored that final goal. But there were several missed calls earlier in the game, and one that was pretty pivotal – the missed delay of game when the puck was hit by a STL player out of play. Missed calls are part of the game. As a Sharks fan, I’ll take it. The Logan Couture goalie interference in VGK game 2 was a bad call too. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/383 "2019-05-18T00:16:26Z")
There were a number of bad and missed calls in Wednesday’s game. Any one of them could have resulted in a different outcome of the game. That being said, if the Blues had bothered to score on our empty net, there wouldn’t have been an OT goal to be disputed. The Blues are definitely fired up…scored in the first 35 seconds. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/384 "2019-05-18T00:50:56Z")
…And again 1:32 later. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/385 "2019-05-18T02:40:57Z")
Good job, Blues! ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/386 "2019-05-18T03:21:35Z")
Go Blues! ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/387 "2019-05-18T05:01:39Z")
This series will be a dogfight. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 12:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/388 "2019-05-18T12:53:37Z")
I’m not a fan of any of the teams left in the tournament but after seeing Boston sweep Carolina right out of the playoffs I’m convinced that the Boston Bruins are gonna be the next Stanley Cup champions. Sorry San Jose/St. Louis. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/389 "2019-05-18T13:59:38Z")
Boston is going to be tough but they are going to have a 10 day break before the finals start. Now, some rest is good to help the sore players get a little better, but there is a lot to be said for being in that groove of playing every other day. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/390 "2019-05-18T14:07:09Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Boston is going to be tough but they are going to have a 10 day break before the finals start. Now, some rest is good to help the sore players get a little better, but there is a lot to be said for being in that groove of playing every other day. You make a good point but if Tuukka Rask stays “on point” in the Finals the way he was against Carolina then you might as well put Boston’s name on the Stanley Cup right now. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/391 "2019-05-18T14:45:00Z")
I had been half-jokingly telling people that they should spot the Blues a goal to start game 4, to make up for that missed call at the end of game 3. But a goal 35 seconds in was good enough for me. > [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > …And again 1:32 later. **Bo** I don’t know if you are talking about the same thing I thought I saw, but it definitely looked like something went in (or close to it) just a few minutes after the first goal. But there was no horn, none of the players reacted, none of the announcers said anything about it, so I figured I was just seeing things. ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/392 "2019-05-18T14:45:50Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > You make a good point but if Tuukka Rask stays “on point” in the Finals the way he was against Carolina then you might as well put Boston’s name on the Stanley Cup right now. Yes Rask has been great, but he’s _ **had to** _ be great in part because of Boston’s defensive mistakes. The Bruins overall defense is reduced to one element: Rask. That’s not a good overall defensive strategy. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/393 "2019-05-18T14:52:40Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > I had been half-jokingly telling people that they should spot the Blues a goal to start game 4, to make up for that missed call at the end of game 3. But a goal 35 seconds in was good enough for me. > > **Bo** I don’t know if you are talking about the same thing I thought I saw, but it definitely looked like something went in (or close to it) just a few minutes after the first goal. But there was no horn, none of the players reacted, none of the announcers said anything about it, so I figured I was just seeing things. Nope just got bad info… I was told St. Louis scored with 17:53 _left_ not that they scored _at_ 17:53. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/394 "2019-05-18T15:39:45Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Yes Rask has been great, but he’s _ **had to** _ be great in part because of Boston’s defensive mistakes. The Bruins overall defense is reduced to one element: Rask. That’s not a good overall defensive strategy. And an injured Chara certainly hasn’t helped. He’s actually looked quite shaky at points. Useless [42 year-old](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sooJgySSl8M). ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2019, 3:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/395 "2019-05-18T15:47:43Z")
> [@Bullitt](#): > > Yes Rask has been great, but he’s _ **had to** _ be great in part because of Boston’s defensive mistakes. The Bruins overall defense is reduced to one element: Rask. That’s not a good overall defensive strategy. I heard during Game 4 of BOS - CAR that Boston (or, at least, “the Boston area”) is trying for something that hasn’t happened since the **1930** s: one city laying claim to three pro championships at once (back then it was Detroit with the Tigers, Lions, and Red Wings). So I just **feel** that the Bruins are going to get that done (remember: I’m NOT a Boston Bruins fan). We’ll see. ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/396 "2019-05-19T19:53:41Z")
Boston was hoping for four before the Bucks gored the Celtics. The Blues scored first in San Jose! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/397 "2019-05-19T20:57:37Z")
I saw this quote right before the game started today: > [@St. Louis Blues](#): > > Nah; we’re not having any of that today, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/398 "2019-05-19T21:11:22Z")
> [@racepug](#): > > I heard during Game 4 of BOS - CAR that Boston (or, at least, “the Boston area”) is trying for something that hasn’t happened since the **1930** s: one city laying claim to three pro championships at once (back then it was Detroit with the Tigers, Lions, and Red Wings). So I just **feel** that the Bruins are going to get that done (remember: I’m NOT a Boston Bruins fan). We’ll see. In 1980 Philly played in the finals for all four championships. but only won one. ---
**Author:** ![racepug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@racepug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racepug)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/399 "2019-05-19T21:45:13Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > In 1980 Philly played in the finals for all four championships. but only won one. Okay. The “Iggles” lost to Oakland. The Raiders were very motivated to win that S.B. and I’m not sure the “Iggles” were; I think maybe knocking the Cowboys off in the N.F.C. title game took something out of them. The 76ers got beat by a budding dynasty (and rookie sensation) and the Flyers also lost to a budding dynasty. I’m not sure that either San Jose or St. Louis are in that category but we’ll see! ---
**Author:** ![Tapiotar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3be4f8/32.png) [@Tapiotar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapiotar)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923/400 "2019-05-19T21:53:07Z")
These guys are so tired, I thought they’d have to take the Sharks out on stretchers. The Blues are hardly excited for their victory. I think they all just want to go to bed and sleep. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923.md?page=19) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nhl-april-2019-playoff-thread/831923.md?page=21)