"Kicked In" Goal

Just came across my pic of the "kicked in" goal in the first BU game. Though some of you would find it interesting. Not exactly conclusive, but it would be awful hard to have a "distinct kicking motion" facing away from the goal with someone all over you...

I can't see who the player is in your picture, Age, but I think it was Moulson. Crodge2k and I spoke with his dad after that game, and his dad expressed surprise that Matt would be deemed capable of "kicking" while being pushed backwards. And if your proud father doesn't think you can do it.....

And with the aid of a picture, I reiterate my sentiments from the day of the game...

[q]Awfully tough for us to kick it in when our man isn't even facing the goal.

Maybe it deflected off us indavertantly....I think even more likely, a BU guy was the one to touch it...But overall, I don't see anyway the call could have been an intentional kick-in on us. [/q]

If you look at the picture really quickly it looks like Ryan Whitney has a skate on his right hand.

I can't sort out whose skate is whose well enough to tell whether it even went off Moulson's skate or Miller's, at least from the picture.

As I said on the day of the game, it definitely went off of the Cornell player's skate, and he definitely was in the act of sweeping his foot towards the net when he made contact with the puck (which was trickling wide until it hit Moulson's skate). Mind you, I don't believe that he was intentionally kicking at the puck. I don't even believe that he knew where the puck was, at least not well enough to kick it in intentionally. I believe that he was trying to maintain his balance and find the puck, and in doing so wound up kicking it into the goal. At the time, I was hoping Hansen would deem that it wasn't intentional, but that wasn't really a call he could make under the circumstances.

It's definitely Moulson based on the photo immediated before this one. Oh well, at least it wasn't a critical goal or anything.

[Q]I was hoping Hansen would deem that it wasn't intentional, but that wasn't really a call he could make under the circumstances.[/Q]
Well, seeing as two minutes before he knows he let in a goal with someone lying all over LeNeveu (sound reasoning behind it or not) he could have easily let it go as a even-up on screwy calls.

-Fred

I had a pretty good view of the play from section F. There's no doubt that it was kicked in.

Yup, definitely kicked in. I had a good view of it from F as well. The ref was right to waive it off.

Well I was in E w/ an equally good view and I get the feeling you guys don't know what kicked means as far as hockey goes. Sure, it went in off his foot, that doesn't mean it was kicked. It is reasonable to call it off so as not to allow an iffy goal, sure, but I don't know how you can possibly say it was "definitely kicked." How can some kick something backwards while they're facing the other way and not looking at it?