The NHL playoffs are going to be an ugly, anticlimactic mess if that’s what passes for goalie interference. We are going to have another Brett Hull 1999 toe-in-the-crease OT moment in a high-stakes, made-for-TV game that goes phhhhhht because this league, in the year of our Bossy 2025, cannot get goalie interference right.
Monday night’s 4-3 shootout loss to the Columbus Blue Jackets could’ve been a standard, garden-variety frustrating missed opportunity by the Isles. They blew a 2-0 lead. They gave up a shorthanded goal to a spirited captain who just returned from missing most of the season.