Should Vegas’ Game 1 winner been called back for icing?

The Anaheim Ducks were furious over the Vegas Golden Knights’ game-winning goal in Game 1 Monday night.

With the game tied 1-1, officials didn’t call what appeared to be an icing in the Ducks’ zone with five minutes to play in regulation, leading to an Anaheim turnover that wound up on Pavel Dorofeyev’s stick, who set up Ivan Barbashev for the go-ahead goal.

“Clearly, I disagreed with the call. And it was clearly icing,” Ducks’ head coach Joel Quenneville said after the game. “Their guy stopped skating, which really made me annoyed.”

Quenneville also claimed that the officials didn’t give him an explanation for not calling icing.

On Tuesday’s episode of Daily Faceoff LIVE, Tyler Yaremchuk and former NHL goaltender Carter Hutton discuss the controversial goal and whether the Ducks have a point as the Golden Knights take a 1-0 series lead.

Tyler Yaremchuk: I don’t understand how this was not icing.

Carter Hutton: It should have been icing. The whole reason why the rule is in place is to protect guys. Jack Eichel could have finished Jackson LaCombe and nailed him, which is why we have the rules in place to begin with. The line is the hashmarks, so who is going to get to the puck first from the hashmarks? That’s the linesman’s read.

I think Eichel holds up for a second, but LaCombe clearly has position, it’s clear he will have possession, and it should have been an icing call.

You can say what you want about playing to the whistle and that it’s a lesson learned for LaCombe, but it is the wrong call. It should have been icing, in my personal opinion. That’s why the rule is in place: to protect guys. The dump-in is clearly way behind the red line, so that’s not even in question.

You can watch the full segment and the rest of the episode here…