Jack Quinn Goal Overturned After Two Reviews in Game 4
jack quinn had a goal taken away after two separate reviews Tuesday in Game 4 against the Montreal Canadiens. Buffalo first believed it had a 2-0 lead in the first period, but the play was overturned after Martin St. Louis challenged for goaltender interference.
The sequence stretched through a lengthy stoppage and ended with the league siding with Montreal under Rule 69.1. Jakub Dobes made the initial save on Konsta Helenius, then stopped Quinn’s rebound with his glove before the puck was looked at again during a commercial break.
Dobes, Helenius and the crease
The second review checked whether the puck had crossed the goal line when Dobes snagged it, and the puck was ruled just past the line. The first ruling had given Buffalo the goal, but the interference challenge changed the call after the league determined Helenius was impairing Dobes’ ability to play his position in the crease before Quinn’s finish.
That left Buffalo without the lead it thought it had earned on the play. Minutes after the challenge, Alex Newhook scored to tie the game at 1-1, turning a potential 2-0 cushion into a much tighter game in the Eastern Conference semifinal.
Lindy Ruff on both reviews
Lindy Ruff did not hide his view of the sequence after the game. “The review where they give us the goal, the review where they take it away... I totally disagree with,” he said.
He also pointed to Dobes’ stick movement and Helenius’ positioning in the crease. “Just from the fact that Dobes is always swinging his stick, he initiated the contact with Helenius with his stick coming across the crease and I thought Helenius did a great job of trying to avoid the goaltender. Their guy ends up hitting the goaltender, so I really thought that that was going to go our way.”
Sabres still finished 3-2
Buffalo recovered from the overturned call and won 3-2 to tie the series 2-2. The goal reversal did not change the final result, but it did reshape the first period and forced the Sabres to chase a game that had briefly looked like it might open with a two-goal cushion.
