Fans outraged over controversial call against Red Wings on Sunday night.

Fans of the Detroit Red Wings are crying foul after a controversial call on Sunday night went against their team.

The Red Wings were in New York to take on the New York Rangers on Sunday night and it would be roughly midway through that game's second period that the controversy would kick off. At the center of it all was Red Wings defenseman Moritz Seider and National Hockey League referee Justin Kea, with Kea calling a delay of game penalty on Seider that has drawn widespread criticism, including from the Red Wings broadcast of the game.

Seider was called for a delay of game after he fired off a puck over the glass. At issue here is the fact that the puck was clearly in the neutral zone at the time that Seider fired it over the glass, and additionally Seider himself was in the neutral zone with his skate touching the blue line.

Red Wings broadcaster Mickey Redmond was in shock when the call came in after a commercial break, expressing his complete disbelief at what he was witnessing transpire before him on the ice.

"His feet weren't even inside the line," said Redmond. "That's ridiculous."

Redmond continued to express his shock at the call throughout the second period, clearly struggling to understand why the penalty had been called under the circumstances.

"They're gonna be ruling something different than we know about because you can't make that call," said Redmond. "We're gonna have to get an explanation on this one, maybe there's a new rule we don't know about. Come on."

Redmond is hardly alone in his sentiments, with many fans taking to social media to express their anger at the call on the ice.

The Rangers Mika Zibanejad would score on the ensuing power play making matters worse.

The NHL rule book regarding delay of game does state that "The determining factor shall be the position of the puck when it was shot or batted by the offending player" which would make both Redmond and the outraged fans expressing their displeasure correct in their anger, but in defense of Justin Kea he may have been using a different interpretation of that rule.

NHL Rule 63 Delay of Game under 63.2 section 2 reads as follows:

A minor penalty for delay of game shall be imposed on any player who deliberately shoots or bats (using his hand, leg, foot, arm, or stick, etc.) the puck outside the playing area (from anywhere on the ice surface) during the play or after stoppage of play.

Under this interpretation of the rule, if NHL referee Justin Kea determined that Seider intentionally tossed the puck out of play, he would still be within his rights to call Seider for a two minute minor penalty.

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