Midway through the second period, a puck flew across the ice as HV71 entered the offensive zone.
A minute later, there was a loose club on the other side.
Adding to the confusion, the referee called for penalties on both occasions.
In turn, HV’s Andre Pettersson and Modo’s Daniel O’Regan burned their own penalty kicks.
According to the rule book, it should be a penalty kick if a defending player throws equipment at an attacking player in the attacking area.
– I was so surprised, I barely saw what happened. They said I was somehow kicking the stick into the puck. “I felt something was wrong,” Modo’s David Rundblad, who scored the first penalty kick, tells TV4 Play.
Andre Pettersson, HV’s penalty kick taker, was still on the ice when the referee called a penalty the other way.
– He says it feels like compensation.
“Two wrongs make zero right.”
During the break, referee Mikael Sjoqvist had the opportunity to explain the decisions. Then he lay down.
– David (Rundblad) does not intentionally play the stick in his area against the puck, but he steps on it. “I’m a bad judge there,” he says.
He’s not happy with the decision he made 57 seconds later either.
– Two errors make zero true, which is also incorrect. “I’m standing on the other side and that’s no excuse, but there it’s like he’s throwing the stick at the puck,” Sjoqvist says, looking forward with a twinkle in his eyes.
– All it takes is getting third place and taking two more penalties.
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