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The Colorado Avalanche Drop A Tough 1-0 Game To The Tampa Bay Lightning

10/25/2018 at 9:21am EDT

from Mike Chambers of the Denver Post,

The Avalanche was shutout at home Wednesday night because Tyson Jost was in stride.

Naturally.

Jost was ruled offside because his back foot/skate was hovering over the blue line, not skating over the frozen paint. His entire body didn’t cross the blue line before Nathan MacKinnon pushed the puck into the Tampa Bay’s zone, but the Avs’ ensuing goal by Gabe Landeskog didn’t count because Jost’s skate was above the blue line — and not on it....

The NHL needs to adjust its offside rule. Or get rid of it altogether and worry more about questionable plays that directly factor into goals. A hovering skate should never negate a good goal....

Said Landeskog: “Those calls go both ways. If it was the other way around, I would have wanted the same call. That’s not where the game was won or lost. They scored on their (third-period) power play and we didn’t score on ours. That’s the difference. We had enough chances to score.”

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Game highlights below, the play in question starts at the :40 second mark.

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