St Louis, MO

Good Mornin St Louie!  Please stop whining and breaking sticks over your obvious meltdown.  What a game last night.  You had San Jose right where you wanted em. 4-3, you were controlling the play in the 3rd.  Martin Jones was standing on his head.  You were winning with about a minute left.

Then, who else but Logan Couture, scores the tying goal to send the crowd cryin into their cryin towels.  From Pavelski and Thornton, so calm and collected at the end.  Sure of their mission.  Knowing they are the better team.

But wait, there would be more drama in the OT period as each team traded quality chances.  As the Sharks drove the play deep into the Blues offensive zone, there was a scramble in front of the net.

Timo Meier with the puck, is knocked down.  As he falls, he hits the puck with his glove.  It then caroms off D man Jay Bouwmeester, directly to Gus Nyquist, who passes to Erik Karlsson, who rips it passed Blues goalie Jordan Binnington.  Game over!!!

As the Sharks celebrated, the Blues continued lobbying for the refs to call a hand pass on Timo.  After numerous replays, one can see the puck bounce off of Bouwmeester’s leg.  The rule is that for a hand pass to be called, the puck must go directly to a teammate from the hand of the offending player.

It did not.  It bounced off the opposing player to Nyquist.  Yeah, I get it St Louis, you feel robbed, jobbed  and otherwise screwed.  The hockey gods deemed that the Sharks should win and they seized the day.

In an official statement, the NHL said: “Plays of this nature are not reviewable. A hand pass that goes into the net can be reviewed, but a hand pass between teammates cannot be reviewed.”

A pool reporter caught up with Kay Whitmore, the NHL’s supervisor of officials for the series, and asked whether any of the officials saw the hand pass.

“What [did they tell] me? It’s a non-reviewable play. You can read between the lines. You can figure out what you want. You watched the video. But it’s just non-reviewable. I know that sounds like a cop-out answer, but that’s the truth,” Whitmore said.

Could the NHL’s “War Room” in Toronto have stepped in on a critical goal such as this?

“The way the rules are written, any chance there is to review, everything is reviewed that’s reviewable,” Whitmore said. “But as the rules currently stand, the play is non-reviewable.

“Carpe diem bitches!!

EK’s biggest goal ever!

Sweet victory!