The calls might not have gone Vancouver's way — again — but those among the Canucks faithful worried about that right now are missing the larger point. (imacSportsnet)
might have been wronged on a penalty-shot call for the second time in two weeks — they probably were — missed a larger point.
And Ducks prospect Sam Steel, who for all Canuck fans knew before Tuesday’s game may as well have been famous Mountie Sam Steele who policed the Klondike Gold Rush, seized his penalty-shot moment. Apparently, Steel badly wants to be on Anaheim’s NHL team next season and the 21-year-old rookie, who won a Western Hockey League scoring title a couple of years ago, played Tuesday like a prospect determined to build a better future.
It hardly mattered, despite the specific wording of NHL rule 53.6, that Canuck Markus Granlund didn’t actually play a broken stick at the puck, but instead pushed the kindling out of his way before Duck Cam Fowler’s pass struck it from a perpendicular angle. The referees and linesmen huddled, talked to the war room in Toronto, and called a penalty shot. It should have been taken by Fowler, a defenceman, but the officials let the Ducks decide the shooter and the players chose Steel.
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