Stuart Skinner called hockey a "game of luck" -- and he felt as if that luck just wasn't on their side early in their 4-3 win over the Mammoth.
After Dylan Guenther opened the scoring for Utah, he doubled the lead 1:31 later with a weird goal. Barrett Hayton picked up a rebound and put it on net, and the puck was on its way to trickling over the goal line until Connor Clifton reached in and swept it away, only for it to go off the foot of Guenther and deflect in:
It was initially ruled no-goal for not crossing the goal line, a call that was quickly overturned since it clearly did. But throughout the review and until the puck drop, you could see the Penguins' bench starting to stir. Nick Bonino is the assistant coach who wears the device that allows him to communicate with their eyes in the press box, including the video coach. And just as the officials were getting ready to drop the puck, Dan Muse and Bonino frantically waved the officials over, only for play to continue after a quick chat.
What was that all about?
"I just wanted them to look at it," Muse said. "They said they did. There's the way it goes in on the skate. I have a certain view, sometimes on the benches, it's tough. But I just wanted to make sure that it was being looked at. It was one of those where I wasn't feeling like it was a complete kicking motion, but it could be. And I just wanted to make sure that they were taking a look at it."
It's a funny one -- Guenther angles his skate, which is allowed. But he's flying into the crease with such speed it's hard to tell what exactly counts as a kick at that rate.
"I mean, it was kicked," Stuart Skinner said. "But it was because he was stopping at the net. So, nowadays, that's legal. It was a bad bounce. The puck goes right on his tape, hits the post, then the back end of my pad, back on the goal line. Cliffy made a great play, and they were just going to the net hard. I think both the first two goals were pretty unlucky bounces. But again, that's hockey with the way the puck goes sometimes. Sometimes it's a game of luck. We were able to stick with it."
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Why wasn't that a kicking motion?
Stuart Skinner called hockey a "game of luck" -- and he felt as if that luck just wasn't on their side early in their 4-3 win over the Mammoth.
After Dylan Guenther opened the scoring for Utah, he doubled the lead 1:31 later with a weird goal. Barrett Hayton picked up a rebound and put it on net, and the puck was on its way to trickling over the goal line until Connor Clifton reached in and swept it away, only for it to go off the foot of Guenther and deflect in:
It was initially ruled no-goal for not crossing the goal line, a call that was quickly overturned since it clearly did. But throughout the review and until the puck drop, you could see the Penguins' bench starting to stir. Nick Bonino is the assistant coach who wears the device that allows him to communicate with their eyes in the press box, including the video coach. And just as the officials were getting ready to drop the puck, Dan Muse and Bonino frantically waved the officials over, only for play to continue after a quick chat.
What was that all about?
"I just wanted them to look at it," Muse said. "They said they did. There's the way it goes in on the skate. I have a certain view, sometimes on the benches, it's tough. But I just wanted to make sure that it was being looked at. It was one of those where I wasn't feeling like it was a complete kicking motion, but it could be. And I just wanted to make sure that they were taking a look at it."
It's a funny one -- Guenther angles his skate, which is allowed. But he's flying into the crease with such speed it's hard to tell what exactly counts as a kick at that rate.
"I mean, it was kicked," Stuart Skinner said. "But it was because he was stopping at the net. So, nowadays, that's legal. It was a bad bounce. The puck goes right on his tape, hits the post, then the back end of my pad, back on the goal line. Cliffy made a great play, and they were just going to the net hard. I think both the first two goals were pretty unlucky bounces. But again, that's hockey with the way the puck goes sometimes. Sometimes it's a game of luck. We were able to stick with it."
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