Screen Shots: Kuznetsov Shootout Goal Should Lead To NHL Shot Clock

Hi there. Welcome back to thehockeynews.com. So let’s talk about a couple topics from my screenshots column that was posted Wednesday on thehockeynews.com. First topic is Evgeny Kuznetsov and his comical shootout goal against the New York Islanders Tuesday this. You can see why this type of thing made Wayne Gretzky say that he didn’t like this type of shot. This is a shot that Kuznetsov has used long before in his career, his career at the Washington Capitalist. Fans there will recognize that he just goes down the ice as slow as humanly possible. As slow as you do to avoid traveling back through time and waiting out the goaltender before he picks them apart, I think this kind of violates the spirit of the shootout. In a lot of ways and and there should be a shot clock. I mean, the NBA has a shot clock at the end of Major League Baseball, has a pitch clock. And I think in this case the shot clock is warranted. I mean, if you give a player 6 or 7 seconds to get from center ice to the goal line, that’s a lot of time. That’s an ample time for a guy to go down and shoot his shot. But because Netzel took a little more than 8 seconds to get his behind from center ice to the goal line, if you started counting when he was at the red line at the opposite end, it took him more than 11 seconds. To get to the other end of the ice. So that’s that’s a lot to me and it’s just kind of kind of feels not right in a lot of ways. It’s just that I’m just an instinct. I think I have and I think it’s again, see why Wayne Gretzky talked about it but it’s just not right for me. So the other topic we want to talk about really quickly is Steve Kazari, veteran referee who got into an honest collision last about a month or quite a while ago. He was out for three weeks, nearly four weeks, but came back really quickly. He gets called a coward by Boston Bruins announcer Jack Edwards. Really unfortunate and I think unfair and unwarranted. This is somebody that’s a good NHL official. He makes mistakes, absolutely. But what he was being criticized for was leaving the ice, and that’s insane to me. I mean, he was talking to Boston Bruins players. He clearly was not happy. He he swore at them. He he told them where to go and what to do. And you know, he’s a human being that makes those kind of reactions. So I don’t know that we can blame him about that and certainly not call it question his character. To me, that’s ridiculous. So that’s kind of how I feel about that topic in particular. But we can keep coming back each and every day to thn.com for a lot more topics than that. And you can subscribe to the magazine at thn.com/free to get access to our magazines and our incredible archive collection. Until next time, folks, take care. I’m Adam Proto for thehockeynews.com.