Devan Dubnyk calls out officials after dangerous play.

DETAILS INSIDE

HockeyFeed
HockeyFeed
Published 7 years ago
Devan Dubnyk calls out officials after dangerous play.
Images Courtesy of Keystone Press

Despite coming away with a big win, Devan Dubnyk is not pleased with the officials after this one.

During Saturday's action between the Minnesota Wild and Nashville Predators, Wild' goaltender Devan Dubnyk was the victim of a dangerous play. Late in the Wild's 5-2 victory, Predators' winger James Neal clipped Dubnyk in the head with his elbow on the Preds' second goal of the season.

Dubnyk was furious after the game, ripping into the officials for not calling a penalty as well as their use of video replay.

"I don't even know what the rule is anymore. ... If you want to find a clip of a goalie just getting scored on a straight shot from there it's going to be tough to find," Dubnyk said to The Star Tribune's Michael Russo after the game. "When I know I'm about to get my head taken off, I don't know how that doesn't qualify as able to make a save. ...

"It doesn't matter if the player is in the white if I'm in my paint. Like, I'm where I need to be. And regardless of that, if that play happens to a player in the middle of the ice, that's going to be a suspension. Like, he almost killed me."

"You can't tell me that's (OK). That's a dangerous play," Dubnyk said. "So even after they go and decide that I just let that shot straight in, they all forget that that's a penalty regardless of whether the puck went in first or not."

"I bet if there's no such thing as a review, it's no goal and a penalty," Dubnyk said. "Instead now there's all these distractions, they're trying to figure out if the other team is challenging, then they go over and they're looking at it and they're thinking about all these things and it gets forgot about."

Goalies have taken questionable contact all season long, and it makes sense for Dubnyk to be angry about a play that could cause him an injury at this juncture of the season.

Here was the play in question:

[pub]