Canucks vs Dallas - April 19 - Near Miss
April 21st, 2007 by Dave Zille
As most Canuck fans know, there was almost a very rare event early in the 3rd period of the Canucks’ Game 5 tilt vs Dallas. The Stars’ Louie Eriksson attempted to pass the puck to Mike Modano at the point during a delayed penalty call against the Canucks. What resulted was a bad pass which went past Modano, banked off the boards and slid all the way down the ice, just *grazing* the post, almost resulting in a Canuck goal. Amazing stuff.
Henrik thought it was going in. Did you?
I uploaded the clip to Youtube. Take a look:
Brett
While watching this the commentators forgot that St Louis scored on their own net two years ago. That was the year St Lou got 25% of their wins against the Canucks and ultimately spoiled our playoff hopes. It cost Burke and Crow their jobs too.
I had always wondered if scoring on your own net when the goalie was pulled ever happened before and then it happened.
I’m not aware of how long the NHL has allowed goaltenders to come off the ice for a player but I imagine it was sometime around then it must have happened. Its a great rule that certainly adds some excitement. Its either an old rule or has been around to compete with the WHA. Certainly Gary Smith use to try to play point, heh.
This also brings up the Icing and the Crease rule. One of my favourite rules was that Icing was negated if the puck wen through the crease.
The NHL has always hated this rule putting all sorts of qualifiers in it. If it comes through the crease after hitting the backboards its still icing; if the goaltender is pulled its still icing. I believe now that the rule has been eliminated completely.
The beauty of the rule is its sort of the opposite of a foul in baseball. Suddenly the puck is back in play and players have no choice to play it. The team can quickly find itself scrambling. In baseball, its just anticlimactic and one of the many things that can make it boring.
The league obviously loves the footrace too much. Touch up icing really needs to be brought in.
I digress…
Let’s put them away tonight, you stupid Canucks!
Apr 21st, 2007 at 9:53 am