The winning goal in the individual raids, by which Vladimír Svačina decided the second semifinal of the extra-league playoffs between the hockey players of Třinec and Mladá Boleslav, fell in accordance with the rules.
The visiting Central Bohemians thought that the experienced steelworkers’ attacker violated the rules by moving backwards, but the referee committee of the Czech Ice Hockey Association judged the judges of Monday’s duel and their colleague Petr Blümel in the video.
The match ended even after overtime without goals. It was the turn of the raids. Pavel Kousal did not succeed in them in the sixth series with a balanced state of 1: 1, after which a successful executor from the first series Svačina went on the ice. The guardian of the Mladá Boleslav goal, Gašper Krošelj, went out against him and stuck out a hockey stick. The Třinec attacker circled him and then ended up in an empty goal, but he maneuvered the puck backwards at the handle. And he himself wasn’t entirely sure he hadn’t broken the rules.
“I drive quite slowly, so I managed to react to it. I don’t want to speculate if I made a backward movement or not. There are others from that. But I avoided his hockey stick, my hockey stick, and made a backward movement with her. When I go with the puck, so I also mix it back and forth with it. A goal for me. But I’m not sure, “said Svačina in an interview with journalists.
The coach of the losers Radim Rulík and other club representatives of the Skaters examined the television footage from the behind-the-scenes raid, a few tens of minutes after the end of the match and before the press conference.
“He decided on one raid, which I am not convinced was regular,” Rulík said. “The rules say that the disc must not come back, that it has to go in the forward direction, and we didn’t like that,” said the coach, who stayed at the substitute and wanted the judges to review the whole situation on video. However, the goal was recognized and may be a key moment for the development of the series, as the defending champion Třinec leads the series 2: 0 thanks to him.
“The coaching challenge cannot be used in this situation, but it is precisely such controversial situations that the rules think and are examined by video judges. He also examined the situation yesterday in Třinec and evaluated the goal as regular,” Vladimír Šindler the referee, according to whom the referees and the goal video referees proceeded in accordance with the interpretation of the rules, when they recognized Svačin’s goal.
“The purpose of Rule 24.2 is not to prevent a player from evasively maneuvering during a goalkeeper’s intervention, but to disproportionately prolong the raid or attempts to ‘throw’ the goalkeeper by interrupting the raid or moving backwards. puck in such a case does not conflict with the interpretation of rule 24.2, “the union said in a press release.
“Our interpretation was also confirmed by the IIHF judging panel, which we sent the video for judging. She said it was crucial that the player proceeded with the puck in a normal and smooth manner. he tried to deceive the goalkeeper, “added Šindler.
The commission thus proved Czech Television expert Milan Antoš, who discussed the Svačina raid in the studio with an electronic pencil. “It was a completely normal raid. At one point, Svacina made a stick movement a lot behind his leg, but his legs kept moving along the goalkeeper,” he described.
In his analysis, Antoš pointed out that Pavel Kousal from Boleslav, who scored in the third series of raids, also made a similar backward movement as Svačina. Just on the blue line and without the intervention of the goalkeeper.
