In Saturday night’s loss to the Winnipeg Jets, the Toronto Maple Leafs were issued a bench minor in the third period. The score was 4-2 at the time, and Nikolaj Ehlers had just scored on the power play for Winnipeg after Morgan Rielly had been called for interference.
Off the faceoff, Zach Hyman moved in to prevent the Jets from getting to the puck and knocked a few of them over. There’s no question that’s interference. The only question is how consistently is it called. Every person has their own answer to that.
Backing up, Morgan Rielly, who is not a complainer about penalties all that often, was upset by the call against him:
Now, onto the Hyman penalty:
The quote Omar and the rest of us can lipread there is obvious.