 benv
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Registered: May 2006
Location: Edmonton
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| Adam wrote on Sat, 18 January 2025 23:24 |
Good on Garland for taking out a big part of our attack for 15 seconds, and for getting under his skin which almost certainly helps out the Canucks in the next meeting, just two games away. Can't blame him for doing that. But in any other sport, if you're doing that kind of nonsense, the other team gets an advantage. The ref blows that down when Garland is first holding McDavid's arm, or when he tackles him AGAIN, and there are two less infractions for DOP(e)S to review.
Just brutal.
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The thing about this is that even if the refs did call a penalty on Garland, I'm not sure anything would have changed. As I recall, the Oilers had the puck the entire time, so no whistle would have gone anyway and I think we get the same results.
I'm actually surprised this kind of thing (Garland mugging McDavid in the last few seconds of the game) doesn't happen more often. There's really no reason NOT to do it--if you get a penalty there's only a couple seconds left in the game anyway and you prevent the league's best player from potentially tying the game.
It reminds me of a story I read about Roger Nielson when he was coaching Peterborough in the OHA in the 70s. His team was up by a goal and had a two man-disadvantage in the final minute of the game. So as soon as the face off happened, Neilson just immediately sent two more players on the ice causing the ref to immediately put his hand up for a too many men penalty. As soon as Peterborough touched the puck the penalty was called, but since they couldn't go down more than two men, it didn't matter. Neilson just kept doing this three or four more times until time ran out and his team won the game (who cares that half his team was in the penalty box when the final buzzer rang). This flagrant thumbing his nose at the spirit of the game, caused a rule change in the OHA that a too many men penalty in the final two minutes when you are already down two men would result in a penalty shot.
I've always thought there should be something like that for any penalty taken in the last two minutes of a game when the player will never have to serve the entire sentence. Once thing I think would work is the other team has the option to decline the penalty and instead add an extra two minutes to the game clock. I don't see this ever happening but it would make teams think twice about blatant fouls in the final seconds of a game.
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