Coyotes Ground Flyers
The Coyotes played an inspired game against the Flyers tonight. Shane Doan has been completely snakebit and can’t buy a goal.
Unless the Flyers pull their goaltender Ray Emery in the final minute and Pronger can’t stop a Shane Doan rush. Pronger commits a penalty as Doan attacks, and because of Rule 26.1 (the awarding of a goal), Doan gets his goal that he has fought so hard to earn.
Here is the text of Rule 26.1 for those that don’t believe me:
Rule 26 – Awarded Goals
26.1 Awarded Goal – A goal will be awarded to the attacking team when the opposing team has taken their goalkeeper off the ice and an attacking player has possession and control of the puck in the neutral or attacking zone, without a defending player between himself and the opposing goal, and he is prevented from scoring as a result of an infraction committed by the defending team
So, that’s what happened, not that they really needed that clinching goal, but Tyson Nash and Bob Heethuis stated that they have never seen that type of thing before. I would have to agree as I haven’t either, but the logic of the rule sort of makes sense. If Pronger didn’t commit the penalty because Doan beat him, Doan might have scored.
The Coyotes take 5 points of the last 6 available. Hopefully, the trend will continue when they travel to the Great White North.
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