The Pittsburgh Penguins are the latest team to be frustrated with a failed coach’s challenge for goaltender interference.
The play in question occurred in the first period of Saturday’s game against the Winnipeg Jets. Jets forward Brad Lambert skated in on a partial breakaway and fired a shot at Penguins goalie Arturs Silovs. Silovs steered the puck away but it bounced into the slot. Jets forward Morgan Barron and Penguins defenceman Erik Karlsson both reached for the puck and Barron bumped Karlsson into Silovs. At the same time, the puck ricocheted off Barron and into the net.
The Penguins challenged the call for goaltender interference but the call was upheld after review. In a statement about the play, the NHL only said that “Video review confirmed no goaltender interference infractions occurred prior to Morgan Barron’s goal.”
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Sportsnet’s Elliotte Friedman reported during Saturday Headlines on Hockey Night in Canada that he spoke to an official about this play and that official agreed with the call, saying the play “was a puck battle.”
However, Friedman added, the Penguins handed out a paper to the media in the Pittsburgh press box with a section of the rulebook highlighted in yellow. The section highlighted was from Rule 69.1 Interference on the Goalkeeper, which states in part: “If a defending player has been pushed, shoved, or fouled by an attacking player so as to cause the defending player to come into contact with his own goalkeeper, such contact shall be deemed contact initiated by the attacking player for purposes of this rule, and if necessary a penalty assessed to the attacking player and if a goal is scored it would be disallowed.”
As Friedman pointed out on the broadcast, the rule does not mention puck battles as a reason to allow the goal to count.
Speaking after the game, Penguins coach Dan Muse backed his staff for initiating the challenge and said general manager Kyle Dubas told him after the annual general manager meetings earlier this week to challenge plays “by the the book.”
“We felt that one was by the book, in the sense that their player pushes (Karlsson) into (Silovs),” Muse continued. “That’s why I challenged.”
The Penguins won the game 5-4 in a shootout.
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