Drew Doughty @ home scored a game winning goal with fourth tenth of a second left in the game and they won 3-2 against the Columbus Blue Jackets and it should of not counted because the clock got stuck on 1.8 seconds left and it stayed there for a .6 or .7 second and the game would of been into overtime as the regulation ended with the puck under Curtis Sanford. Colin Campbell, the NHL’s senior vice president of hockey operations said of the clock stoppage "In our opinion it was one full second".
The reality is that home teams usually get a friendly clock and the league should of immediately phoned in and had the ref review the clock as to see if the goal would of still counted and the league could of done this because they are watching every game from the headquarters in NYC every night and as soon as they watched the clock stop they should of been on the phone. The extra point will not help the Columbus but the extra point is very important for the LA Kings as they are 6 points in front of No. 9 Dallas Stars but the Kings should of need to earn that extra point in overtime.
In the NBA it is common place for clock freezes and they now review any last second baskets at either the end of the quarter, half, or even the game and this practice should become common place because how many goals are scored with less than a second on the clock and the answer is little to none and the league should make sure they do not make the same mistake again.
The league will make changes
Tom Mehegan
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