PITTSBURGH — David Poile couldn’t sleep.
He stayed up well into the night and kept watching the instant replay of the called-off goal from the first period of Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.
He watched it over and over again, in slow motion, in full speed, in rewind, in freeze frame — any way he could.
Poile is anything but a controversial figure. He is an NHL lifer who is clearly uncomfortable rocking the boat. He watched the replay of the disallowed goal, he said, “at least 50 times.” And he still doesn’t understand the coach’s challenge offside call that disallowed a goal by P.