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Game 3 - Calgary Flames vs Toronto Maple Leafs W3-2

I don't agree with this call. I mean, Brown ran right into him, but Kiprusoff helped it along...I don't think it should be a penalty if the goalie is on the white ice. Blow it dead, yes...but no penalty.
 
TML fan said:
I don't agree with this call. I mean, Brown ran right into him, but Kiprusoff helped it along...I don't think it should be a penalty if the goalie is on the white ice. Blow it dead, yes...but no penalty.
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Regardless of in or outside the crease, if the referee considers the contact intentional, or that the player did not try and reasonably avoid the collision, then they can call it.

Definitely looked completely coincidental, but hey....
 
From the NHL's very own rulebook:

61.2 Penalty - In all cases in which an attacking player initiates intentional or deliberate contact with a goalkeeper, whether or not the goalkeeper is inside or outside the goal crease, and whether or not a goal is scored, the attacking player will receive a penalty (minor or major, as the Referee deems appropriate). In all cases where the infraction being imposed is to the attacking player for hindering the goalkeeper?s ability to move freely in his goal crease, the penalty to be assessed is for goalkeeper interference.

In exercising his judgment, the Referee should give more significant consideration to the degree and nature of the contact with the goalkeeper than to the exact location of the goalkeeper at the time of the contact.
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