Brandon Sutter’s leaping roughing penalty on goalie in OT: Agree or disagree? (VIDEO)

the officiating in the NHL is in real poor shape and its starting to show. It seems every week theres a call thats blown that has significant consequences

From the NHL rule book: "Roughing is a punching motion with the hand or fist, with or without the glove on the hand, normally directed at the head or face of an opponent."

Am I missing something?

The way Stamkos pushed him, this should have been a no call. I do think that by jumping he gave the refs a worse impression of the hit, but it was still a bad call.

Bad call, very bad. Biggest proof was that Steven Stamkos went to ck on how Sutter was instead of pushing and shoving like would normally happen after a goalie was hit by a member of the other team.

Francois St. Laurent completely disregarded both NHL Rule 51.1 on Roughing (Roughing is a punching motion with the hand or fist, with or without the glove on the hand, normally directed at the head or face of an opponent) and Rule 69.4 on Goalie Contact Outside the Goal Crease (...However, incidental contact will be permitted when the goalkeeper is in the act of playing the puck outside his goal crease provided the attacking player has made a reasonable effort to avoid such unnecessary contact).

Three things were very clear
1) Brandon Sutter did everything possible to avoid contact with Mathieu Garon
2) Steven Stamkos pushed Sutter into Garon while defending him.
3) At no point, did Sutter use any kind of punching motion with his hand or fist.

St. Laurent embarrassed the NHL officiating crew last night (as if Tim Peel didn't do enough in this game and the Hurricanes game at Anaheim).

Shouldn't have been a penalty, incidental contact after Stamkos pushed him

Quote from the guy some of you think wasn't pushed:

"I couldn't get out the way," Sutter said. "I just tried to go to the net and obviously the goalie was out pretty far out of his crease and I got pushed in.

"There's no question I hit the goalie, I ran into him. There's contact there. Like I said, I was clearly pushed into him. Terrible call."

And the fans already have a fund established to pay Sutter's fine if this idiotic league decides to punish him for that quote.

Three penalties on the play: Sutter for goalie interference, Stamkos for holding (he has his left hand wrapped around Sutter's midsection and his right on his back) and Garon for unsportsmanlike conduct. Sutter *grazed* his mask with his thigh on his way over him and Garon acted like he was hit by a steamtrain.

Or -- more sensibly -- a non-call on a "hockey" play.

That is some impressive athleticism from Sutter. He bearly hits Garon who is tall on his knees. Take away the controversy and this is a highlight.

No call is the correct call here. Mistakes are made sometimes..shame that it cost the Canes the game.

Shouldn't have been called. Sutter was very clearly trying to stop as he approached, but was unable due to Stammer's hand pushing him in the back. It's very obvious in the view from behind (0:59 in the video). He actually did manage to minimize contact by jumping. I think if Sutter stayed on his feet, or maybe slips and goes down then it's no call. The jump made it look worse than it really was.

I just watched again, I think that Stamkos thought he had a penalty for either holding or hooking. He looks right at the ref and sees his arm up before he even looks at Garon. NHL referees are quickly becoming almost as big of a joke as the NHL marketing department. These two groups are doing all they can to ruin this sport.

Lightning fan. No penalty.

Sutter's lucky to not be hurt. He got shoved by Stamkos and leaped over Garon in an attempt to avoid hurting him (and barely grazed him). Roughing is supposed to be called for actions that are aggressive but don't count as fighting because gloves are still on. I fail to see how being shoved then leaping over someone in an attempt to avoid mowing him down could be considered roughing.

Ref who made the call was in a decent position and should have seen the push and called the push. It really should have been a no call because Biron was outside the crease, but if he was going to call anything on Sutter, it should not have been roughing, it should have been goalie interference and he should have called interference or crosschecking on Stamkos, too. This penalty took away any reasonable chance for the Hurricanes to win the game. Games in any sport should be decided by the players not the referees. This was decided by the referees.

Very bad call

Bad call, but the Tampa bench probably also saved the game by getting a new stick to Clark about 4 seconds after his broke. Staal broke a stick against the Panthers last weekend and it cost them the game because it took a while to get him a new one. I say bring on all these nightmare plays so we can just get them out of the way for next season.

Terrible call

Disagree. No call is correct here.

Had it been a no-call, I don't think there would have been much discussion about it. No call is often the right call.