NHL Rescinds Match Penalty Called on David Backes

[chilly666]

The National Hockey League rescinded the match penalty assessed to St. Louis Blues forward David Backes in the game Friday night against the Detroit Red Wings.

Backes received a match penalty for an illegal hit to the head of Detroit's Kent Huskins at 9:38 of the third period. Replays appeared to indicate that no contact to Huskins' head was made.

Detroit's Pavel Datsyuk scored the game-winning goal on the ensuing five-minute power play in an eventual 5-3 victory.

[Baronking]

Wow, surprised they admitted it was wrong. Too bad it doesn't rescind the goal scored on the power play

[FightingIsGood]

Originally Posted by Baronking

Too bad it doesn't rescind the goal scored on the power play

This. It's little consolation for the Blues having the game stolen from them because of that awful call.

[NickDoh]

If I understand things correctly they HAD to rescind it to avoid suspending him. Basically just a formality. Admitting their mistake without actually admitting their mistake.

[bruiser11]

What a slap even still.

[bustoff]

What a fuking joke...... Send those two refs back to the AHL.

[majew17]

Originally Posted by Baronking

Wow, surprised they admitted it was wrong. Too bad it doesn't rescind the goal scored on the power play

I was going to say the exact same thing. A pure and simple travesty.

[Hagstrom]

Cool, now he doesn't have a match penalty in his stats.

That's pretty much all this accomplishes, as has been stated

[BROKEN*ORBITAL]

The NHL should rescind the job of the striped f*ck that blew that call.

[Hagstrom]

and/or the 3 other stripes who didn't say anything about it being so obviously wrong

[Dave_42]

It was a very bad call. However, if you watch the replay the ref that made the call saw Backes go in for the hit and Huskins' head snapped like it was the principal point of contact. Another official should've corrected him before he kicked Backes out of the game. It's instances like these that sometimes I wish refs had the chance to see a replay. It did cost St. Louis the game.