Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper questions whether Colorado Avalanche centre overtime winner Nazem Kadri should have counted.
Tampa Bay Lightning coach Jon Cooper held a brief and tense news conference after the Game 4 loss of the Stanley Cup final on Wednesday night, during which he questioned the legality of the Colorado Avalanche centre Nazem Kadri's game-winning goal in overtime.
Cooper rambled for a minute about his love of the NHL and his team's journey to back-to-back Stanley Cup championships before zeroing in on Kadri's goal at 12:02 of overtime, which gave the Avalanche a 3-point lead. -1 in the series.
“This one will hurt a lot more than the others; just because I was drinking…it was potentially…I don't know…it's hard for me. It will be difficult for me to talk. I'm going to have to talk. I'll talk to you tomorrow,” she said. “You will see what I mean when you see the winning goal. And my heart breaks for the players. Because we should probably still be playing."
With that, Cooper excused himself after a single question.
Speculation after the game was that the Lightning thought the Avalanche had six skaters on the ice before the game-winning goal was scored. There were camera angles showing six Colorado skaters on the ice as Kadri collected a pass, skated into the zone and beat goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy for the 3-2 win.
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