Islanders 'Obtained Robbed' After Shedding Goalie Interference Problem; Roy & Gamers Left Confused

SEATTLE –– Whereas Jamie Oleksiak led the celebration line after his level shot gave the Seattle Kraken a 3-2 lead with 3:13 to play in regulation, the New York Islanders have been fast to wave down the officers and get a evaluate.

As Oleksiak launched the puck from the purpose, Brandon Tanev, on his personal, went into the blue paint and ran into netminder Ilya Sorokin.

The shot deflected off of Nelson and fewer than a second later snuck beneath an off-balanced Sorokin and in.

However after evaluate, the decision on the ice stood, and the Islanders left Seattle with a regulation loss, their first in 5 video games:

Whereas the Islanders did have 3:13 to come back again and discover an equalizer, they got a two-minute penalty for the failed problem.

Brock Nelson, who scored earlier within the third interval, obtained on a breakaway however was stoned by Kraken netminder Joey Daccord.

After the sport, Patrick Roy was livid that the problem didn’t result in a name reversal.

“[The explanation] was a humorous one. He stated it was not sufficient,” Roy stated. “He went in by himself. He ran into our goalie whereas the puck was coming. And apparently, there’s sufficient and never sufficient in our league.”

The New York Put up’s Ethan Sears started to ask Roy a query beginning with “Do you assume” however the Islanders’ bench boss did not let him end.

“That we obtained robbed?” Roy stated. “Yeah.”

Sears then requested Roy if he felt like he had a powerful understanding of the rule and the way the NHL enforces it.

“I suppose tonight, I do not as a result of there’s sufficient and never sufficient,” Roy stated. “Someone’s going to have to elucidate to me what’s sufficient and never sufficient. You are within the crease, otherwise you’re not within the crease by your self. You stumble upon the goalie, or you do not stumble upon the goalie. That was the primary time I ever heard that. I suppose I did not play sufficient video games.

Newsday’s Andrew Gross then stated,” Yeah, I used to be confused” by which Roy replied with,”Completely. All of us are.”

I went as much as Anders Lee after the sport and requested what he noticed on the replay.

“With the calls which can be occurring on this league proper now, it is powerful to even know,” Lee instructed The Hockey Information. “I noticed it the opposite evening in opposition to Toronto and Washington. So many of those are up within the air. You would possibly as effectively give it a shot and it did not go for us tonight.”

This is the play that Lee is referring to from the Toronto-Washington sport, the place barely any contact was referred to as goalie interference:

Nelson, who made it clear that he wanted to dam the Oleksiak  shot fully, shared his ideas on the failed problem.

“I really feel like there’s fairly a couple of completely different interpretations of aim interference between the league and referees and gamers, so we thought he was within the crease with out being pushed in by one in every of our guys and made contact,” Nelson stated. “I suppose they deemed it to not be sufficient of interference.”

This is what the league stated relating to their determination:

“Video evaluate confirmed that Brandon Tanev’s place within the crease didn’t impair Ilya Sorokin’s means to play his place.”

The Islanders did not lose this sport due to a failed problem.

They have been up 2-1 within the third interval however blew the lead after having possibilities to increase it.

Did they deserve some extent, with each level crucial on this Metropolitan Division and Jap Convention wild-card race?

Sure, they did, particularly since they continued to play robust hockey regardless of nonetheless being down two-thirds of their high line and the whole left aspect of their protection.

Sadly, the Islanders, as an alternative of getting factors in six straight video games, lose their second sport of their final three (1-1-1) and head to Calgary with a bitter style of their mouth.