Oilers' controversial ending creates trouble, including Connor McDavid's future
Edmonton is back into a corner.
Oilers' controversial ending creates trouble, including Connor McDavid's future originally appeared on The Sporting News . Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . The Edmonton Oilers are in trouble.
Connor McDavid's future is in doubt. And it all was made worse by a controversial game-winning goal by the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday night. The overtime goal was called as such on the ice, then held up after video review.
The problem, in essence, is that camera angles didn't see the puck definitively go across the goal line. But because the angles also can't totally confirm that the puck didn't cross, the call on the ice stands. "The issue I have with this is I don't understand how you can say that puck is completely crossing the goal line.
There's no official behind the net there. " The Hockey Central Panel discusses the Game 4 OT winner in Anaheim pic. twitter.