Eklund: Morning Buzz: Does NHL Need Looser Goalie Interference Rules?

Yes. The idea that goalies are allowed to come out onto the white ice and totally own that space is absurd. I'm not advocating running them over, but they should expect some incidental contact.

At the very least, they need to standardize the rules formally and introduce some kind of challenge/review system.

In the NFL, every TD is reviewed. I don't see why you can't take 30 seconds to get the call right if you're going to wave off something as important as a goal.

They just need to get their heads out of their asses

Eklund: Morning Buzz: Does NHL Need Looser Goalie Interference Rules?
- Eklund

Great rumour blog!

Great rumour blog!
- KABLOOEY

You read it???

You read it???
- The-O-G

Just the title...

Great rumour blog!
- KABLOOEY

It's not a rumor blog???

Not necessarily looser but they do need to review EVERY goalie interference call that disallows a goal on the ice. The fact that that's not reviewable is a joke.

Now you want to change it...after Tomas Holmstrom retires?

They just need to get their heads out of their asses
- david22

^This is all that really needs to be said.
The rule is fine; application is the problem.

It's not a rumor blog???
- Fruitcakenipple

Nor is this a rumour site...my bad.

Now you want to change it...after Tomas Holmstrom retires?
- MedicineMan

He didn't need help had eyes int he back of his head as well as in his heels to see the paint and goalie.

Nor is this a rumour site...my bad.
- KABLOOEY

I didn't read it...I just assumed a rumor site would have rumors....

at the very least it should be challengable.

contact outside of the crease should be okay, if the goalie ventures out of the blue he should do so at his own risk

contact in the blue paint: penalty

outside of it: fair game

You left out the most infamous goalie interference call, the one where there was no contact, and goalie interference was called. see here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs4p3GgyE24

Already this season, there have been at least two disallowed goals that were flat out botched calls in terms of goalie interference. The latest one was a disallowed Ottawa goal against Montreal in which Jakob Silfverberg was actually sent to the penalty box for goalie inteference in addition to the goal being washed out.


- Eklund

Please add Rask's Saturday night swan dive to the list.

Thanks.

I'd go for Standardization..came call every time. Niemi was clobbered the other night in a game against Anaheim and they allowed the goal anyway. Another night, another team and you get a much different result..

Eklund: Morning Buzz: Does NHL Need Looser Goalie Interference Rules?
- Eklund

Yes

I didn't read it...I just assumed a rumor site would have rumors....
- Fruitcakenipple

The title was enough for me.

The solution is easy. Make the crease 1 ft bigger. Then if any player goes into the crease and makes contact, it's an automatic interference penalty.

If the goalie decides to come out of his crease to cut down the angles, and a player bumps him (not runs him over, but just bumps him), then it's not interference and any goal would stand.

Obviously, a player can go into the crease after a loose puck. Also, if a player is in the crease, it's not an automatic disallowed goal - only if he touches the goalie would it be interference.

This way, it could be easily reviewable.

1. Was the player in the crease before the puck? If no, then it's a goal. If yes then:

2. Did the player make contact with the goalie? If no, it's a goal. If yes, no goal.

Pretty simple IMO.

The title was enough for me.
- KABLOOEY

I didn't really read the title as they usually just leave me confused for like a hour....

Yes. The idea that goalies are allowed to come out onto the white ice and totally own that space is absurd. I'm not advocating running them over, but they should expect some incidental contact.

At the very least, they need to standardize the rules formally and introduce some kind of challenge/review system.

In the NFL, every TD is reviewed. I don't see why you can't take 30 seconds to get the call right if you're going to wave off something as important as a goal.
- Leeman4Gilmour

Agreed. NHL refs can do no wrong, and answer to no one apparently.

I didn't really read the title as they usually just leave me confused for like a hour....
- Fruitcakenipple

Way to many goalie turned annalist's moaning and whining about goalie interference you want to come out of your crease expect contact. I'm not say they need to get drilled but if you want to take more ice than your given you should have to fight for it like the rest of the players on the ice. BTW Kevin Weeks, Kelly Hrudey and Glenn Healy need to_______.

thanks to regina miller and the sabres hissy fit from last year, the nhl has gone overboard with the goalie interference.

proof in point was ian walsh channeling don van massengill and waiving off two goals saturday night. on the second one, that gutless midget didn't bother blowing the whistle when reimer tripped marchand and waits for the goal 5 seconds later to waive it off.