Paul Maurice Supports Player After Critical Penalty in Game

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00:00Here's, let's get Maurice out of the way.

00:02Of course, Nosek took that penalty in overtime,

00:04shot the puck over the boards that allowed the Oilers

00:06to get a late in the overtime power play that, of course, they put away.

00:11Here's Paul Maurice.

00:12Don't worry about it, man.

00:13Tough break for Thomas.

00:15Ends up being critical.

00:16As a coach, what do you say to him in a moment like that?

00:20Just remind him after the game of being down 0-2 to Toronto

00:24and that line came in and changed everything for us

00:27and how we're not here without Thomas Nosek.

00:29It's a tough break, so we'll just make sure he doesn't eat alone tonight.

00:34He's got lots of people sitting at his table

00:35and reminding him how good he's been to us.

00:38Eat alone in the present.

00:38And it's going to be tough when he's going to eat that one for a day,

00:40but he's, from his penalty kill to, again,

00:43that line really changed the flow of that Toronto series.

00:46Just we'll remind him about a whole bunch of times before the puck drops.

00:51Yeah, listen, it is what it is.

00:54You know, I actually, I'm going to just say it, I hate that penalty.

00:58I think it's past its prime.

01:03I really do.

01:05I don't, do you really believe, like, so he intentionally wanted to shoot it

01:10into the crowd to cool things off?

01:13No way.

01:14So there's just no way.

01:16So it was just a mistake.

01:18And I don't believe, you know, kind of a mistake in the moment,

01:23in the heat of passion in a game that close,

01:26I don't believe that a mistake, Mike, should be a penalty.

01:30I think that, you know, if you do it on purpose, fair enough.

01:35But they'll never be able to differentiate the two,

01:38so they still call it a penalty in the NHL.

01:40Do you believe that should be a penalty?

01:41Puck goes into the crowd.

01:43They give him a power play.

01:44They win the game.

01:45Do you believe in that, or do you think it's legit?

01:48I don't believe in it.

01:50I don't love it.

01:53I feel like it's one of those rules in hockey that it was originally intended

01:59for one thing, and that's obviously, you know,

02:02guys that are trapped in their zone, and it's a power play.

02:06They're a man down, and they're trying to get rid of it,

02:08and some guys would purposely throw it over the ring, you know,

02:11just to end the play, you know, stop everything.

02:13So, I get why they put it in, but there's, like, so much gray area

02:18where you get a play like that where it's like, you know, come on.

02:21Like, what?

02:22You know, it's like the offside, right?

02:25It's like the offside stuff with taking the goals back for offsides.

02:29There are times when it's completely – you understand why it's there,

02:33and then there's other times where it's like a quarter of a skate blade,

02:37and the goal happens two minutes later, and they go all the way back to –

02:41like, it's just – it sucks that the rules are in there for that.

02:45Would you see it being valid to just make it an icing?

02:50You still have to face off right next to your goalie danger.

02:54I think it should be icing in your own end.

02:57Yeah.

02:58It's hard.

02:59Like, I don't want to write it – put any more lines on the ice,

03:02but, like, I feel like –

03:03They lost because of it.

03:05You know what I mean?

03:06Like, it's simple as that.

03:07Yeah, exactly.

03:08They absolutely lost the game.

03:10That's a cheap way to lose, in my opinion.

03:12I think it should be icing.

03:13But it's never going to change because they don't – they don't do that.

03:16They don't make changes.

03:17No.

03:18No, they do.

03:19They never do that.

03:20The Panthers are the first team in NHL history to score 50-plus road goals

03:26in a single playoff.

03:28They've scored 50-plus goals on the road.

03:30Remember, they had a lot of games in this playoffs where they –

03:32You think they'll win game two on the road because they're so good

03:35because they should have won game one and didn't.

03:38I won't be surprised at all if they win game two.

03:40I have thought since the jump that this was going to be a punch and punch back.

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