Mike Kostka Photo by Bridget Samuels/ Flickr

Yeah, about that Game 3 OT win for the Admirals. The one that brought them within 1 win of the Calder Cup. The one with the insanely flukey goal by Mike Koskta? According to the AHL rules, it shouldn’t have counted.

In case you missed it, here it is:

That’s pretty insane, right? How often do we see pucks in sent in exactly like that that don’t result in goals. Unfortunately for the Marlies, the puck careened off a stanchion when goalie Ben Scrivens was out of the net to play the puck so there was no stopping it from heading into the goal on a weird bounce. There wouldn’t have been any debate if Norfolk players hadn’t been in the zone on a delayed offsides call.

It turns out that according to the AHL rules, the tally shouldn’t have counted. Luckily for the Admirals, the league by-laws don’t allow for the result of a game to be changed based an incorrect rule interpretation.

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Trevor Smith Photo by Linda Hamilton

Tonight, in front of a sold-out crowd that included some big names like Steve Yzerman, Pat Verbeek and Guy Boucher, the Norfolk Admirals won Game 2 of their Calder Cup Final series over the Toronto Marlies 4-2.

Norfolk opened the scoring at 14:28 of period 1 when Richard Panik took a nice pass from Evan Oberg, beating Marlies’ goaltender Ben Scrivens. Late in the first, with Trevor Smith off for cross-checking, the Marlies tied things up with Joe Colborne getting the puck past Admirals goaltender Dustin Tokarski.

The second period was tight checking; the only goal coming courtesy of Norfolk’s Alexandre Picard with 4:40 remaining in the period.

The third period was about Tokarski coming up big and the Admirals adding some insurance, with both being done. Brandon Segal scored to make it 3-1 with 11:34 remaining. Just over seven minutes later Trevor Smith scored, making it 4-1. Toronto got a late goal from Juraj Mikus, making the final 4-2.

Tokarski was outstanding, stopping 30 of the 32 shots he faced. Scrivens also held up pretty well, stopping 28 of the 32 shots he faced.

The Admirals now take a 2-0 series lead with them to Toronto, with Game 3 being played June 7th at 7:15pm.

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