Last night in the second period against the Binghamton Senators, Paul Thompson had a goal taken away from him on account of goaltender interference.
I went back in the AHL archives and took some screen grabs and offer this package of evidence for you. Goal or no goal? You decide.
After the jump…
Referee Geoff Miller is crashed into in the corner…
Paul Thompson scores what appears to be a goal…
Referee Miller signals goal…
That’s linesman Jud Ritter skating over to the scorers table with Miller….
This is the other linesman, Brian Oliver, who afterwards…
…Miller washes out the goal, ruling interference on on the goaltender.
Here’s the overhead look. The puck is above Lawson’s glove and left leg.
Here is Thompson shooting the puck into the net…
And a split second later, the puck in the net…
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Again, the interference, if any, was marginal.
This is Rule 69.3, taken from the AHL Rule book. It states…
69.3 Contact Inside the Goal Crease – If an attacking player initiates contact with a goalkeeper, incidental or otherwise, while the goalkeeper is in his goal crease, and a goal is scored, the goal will be disallowed.
Now I will state that the Penguins have crashed into Nathan Lawson more times than any other goaltender in the league. Perhaps that had something to do with it. We had three things in play.
1) Geoff Miller was crashed into and out of position.
2) The Penguins have a history of running into Nathan Lawson.
3) There was incidental contact on Lawson. Enough to wash out the goal completely?
Lawson is the biggest whiner ever. Every goal scored on him he trys to complain about, he flops and dives every chance he can. When he’s accidentally bumped into he lays on the ground as long as possible.
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Lawson is the biggest whiner ever. Every goal scored on him he trys to complain about, he flops and dives every chance he can. When he’s accidentally bumped into he lays on the ground as long as possible.