Drake Caggiula took the puck up ice and fired a great shot against two defenders that flew in the net past goaltender Jaroslav Halak. With under two minutes to go in the game Caggiula’s goal was set up to be the game-winner, except it wasn’t. The referees called the playback thanks to a handpass by Olli Maatta that gave Caggiula the puck.
However, a video review showed that Caggiula got the puck cleanly from Olli Maatta, without any hands being the last thing to touch the puck. Now if I am going to be honest if I was the referee in real-time watching that game I too probably would have called that a handpass, but that does not mean you blow the whistle to call the play dead.