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for goaltender interference and the ensuing arguments aren’t going away.There will just be a new place to direct the
complaints.With the goal of refining the consistency of goalie interference
challenges Youth Jake McCabe Jersey , NHL general managers on Wednesday recommended shifting the decision from on-ice officials to the league’s situation room in
Toronto. The change could go into effect as soon as the playoffs, which begin
April 11, after the NHL Players’ Association signed off and now just needs
approval from the board of governors.”The players want consistency in the
application of the rule, and therefore support this proposed change in order to
help accomplish that goal,” said NHLPA special assistant to the executive direct
Mathieu Schneider said after consulting with competition committee members and
other players.Commissioner Gary Bettman said only perhaps a half-dozen of about
170 challenges this season were controversial, yet GMs overwhelmingly were in
favor of a centralized location for final decisions.”The objective is to be as
close to perfect as possible,” Bettman said, noting goalie interference is a
judgment call. ”The recommended change is intended to help resolve the rare
cases in which the situation room and the referees might have different opinions
of a particular play and is intended to produce more predictability for our
players and coaches.”Currently, on-ice officials have the final say on whether a
goal should count or be disallowed when challenged. Under the proposed change,
the officials would continue to be involved, but a member of the NHL Officiating
Management Team – made up of former referees – would be part of the
decision-making process.Washington Capitals coach Barry Trotz said this won’t
affect how he approaches challenging goalie interference but believes having
someone outside the area making the call is a positive.”There’s some referees
who are more established and, I’d say, sure of themselves, they won’t reverse
the calls Jason Pominville Jersey Kids ,” Trotz said. ”They almost say, `That’s the way I saw it and that’s the way it is and live with it.’ And others get swayed
by what they see or maybe the crowd or another coach or how the game’s going.”So
it’s no different than the student marking their own papers. Let’s have a
non-emotional person who has no skin in the game and is not in an emotional
environment to make those calls and I think you’ll find it will be more
consistent.”Coaches and goaltenders have complained about the inconsistency all
season. Bettman said during All-Star weekend in late January that officials
might be ”overthinking” reviews and that the intent was, ”Take a quick look, but
don’t search it to death.”The league sent a memo to all teams outlining the
standard, which is closer to what Dallas Stars coach Ken Hitchcock prefers.
Hitchcock said he and his colleagues want to lean toward allowing more contact
and counting more goals.”We’re tie goes to the runner,” Hitchcock said. ”I think
that’s how a lot of the coaches feel is that when you see a situation that is a
positive-area sacrifice (for players), give the runner the benefit.”It took
years of debate for GMs to approve coach’s challenges for offside and goaltender
interference, which are in their third season. The gray area in interpretation
still causes issues.”I don’t know what is and what isn’t,” New York Islanders
coach Doug Weight said recently. I think there’s a lot of confusion. That’s
tough. It’s frustrating for us.”The hope is to lessen the frustration by letting
a rotation of former officials take over. But nothing about the way goalie
interference is called is being changed.Former player Ray Ferraro suggested
adopting the international standard that says a goal is waved off if a skater
interferes with a goalie’s positioning but allows it to count if the goalie
initiates contact.”You’re never going to find a solution for this because what
you see when you’re 200 feet away in a press box is different from what you see
on TV, which is different from what is happening on the ice,” goaltending
analyst Justin Goldman of The Goalie Guild said. ”I feel bad for the referees
because it’s so hard to make that call in that moment, but to go to Toronto and
expect Toronto to get it right every single time, you’re at the mercy of what
they’re seeing on a TV screen, not what actually happened on the ice. For the
goalies http://www.sabresshoponline.com/authentic-johan-larsson-jersey , that’s super frustrating.”— GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Anaheim gave up plenty of
scoring chances, probably too many. The Ducks took a penalty with two minutes
left, another with a minute left, and faced a 6-on-3 when Arizona pulled its
goalie.John Gibson didn’t let anything through and now the Ducks are 2-0 to
start the season despite missing a string of key players.Gibson stopped 41
shots, rookie Max Comtois scored for the second straight game to open his NHL
career and the Ducks beat the Coyotes 1-0 on Saturday night.“When you get to the
end of the game, it’s about sacrifice and doing the little things,” Gibson said.
“We really did that.”The Ducks and Coyotes played a tight game until Comtois
scored in the closing seconds of the second period. He had a goal 49 seconds
into Anaheim’s season-opening win over San Jose.The Coyotes had plenty of
chances after that and picked up the pressure in the third period.With 2:01
left, Anaheim’s Jakob Silfverberg was sent off for delay of game after sending a
puck over the glass from his own end. Carter Rowney then was called for
high-sticking with a minute left and the Coyotes pulled goalie Antti Raanta with
about 30 seconds left.Nothing got through.The Coyotes rushed some shots and
Gibson stopped the ones that did get to him, closing out his 17th career
shutout.Arizona was shut out in consecutive games to open a season for the first
time in 39 years as a franchise after opening with a 3-0 loss to Dallas.“It’s a
hard league to score and I thought we left some opportunities out there,”
Coyotes coach Rick Tocchet said. “And I thought we got a little antsy on that
5-on-3 instead of sticking to what we did in practice. We’ve got to score in
that situation.”The Ducks opened the season without injured forwards Corey
Perry, Ryan Kesler, Ondrej Kase and Patrick Eaves. They still had plenty of
offensive production in their opener, knocking off San Jose 5-2 behind
three-point nights by Jakob Silfverberg and Richard Rakell.Gibson was sharp
against the Coyotes Authentic Justin Bailey Jersey , turning away a couple of good chances in the first two periods.Raanta stopped a pair of breakaways the first two periods, but
was unable to come up with the stop on a mini breakaway by Comtois, who got
behind Ilya Lyubushkin with 31 second left in the second.“It’s one goal and you
have to make that save,” said Raanta, who had 19 saves. “It’s tough to take, but
keep working and believe that it’s coming.”The Coyotes picked up the pressure to
open the third, but Gibson kept turning them away, including Richard Panik’s
quick wraparound attempt and later during the wild flurry at the end.“You don’t
have too many 6-on-3s,” Ducks center Adam Henrique said. “We got a couple good
bounces, put a little pressure on it and obviously Gibby making a couple big
saves was key for us.”Notes: A moment of silence was held before the game for
Sen. John McCain, a huge Coyotes fan who died this year. … The Coyotes are
14-6-0-2 in home openers since moving from Winnipeg to Arizona in 1996. … The
Ducks are 4-1-0 the past two seasons against Arizona. … Silfverberg had his
fourth assist of the season on Comtois’ goal.UP NEXTAnaheim plays at Detroit on
Monday.Arizona plays at Anaheim on Tuesday.