RALEIGH, N.C. — After losing a controversial coach’s challenge and gifting the Carolina Hurricanes a tide-shifting power play late in Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final, John Tortorella had no regrets about the decision that helped the Hurricanes tie the series with his Vegas Golden Knights.“I’d challenge it 10 out of 10 times,” Tortorella said.The most compelling moment of a back-and-forth third period during Thursday’s game played out with five minutes left on the clock and the score tied 2-2. The puck ended up in the net behind Hurricanes goalie Frederik Andersen, but only after Vegas forward Pavel Dorofeyev poked at the goalie’s glove as Andersen attempted to freeze it.Referee Jean Hebert ruled it no goal on the ice before Tortorella elected to challenge, with the Golden Knights coach later explaining: “I saw a loose puck in front of Freddie. Our player stabbed it, didn’t move the goalie and it goes through him into the other side.”The only problem?The NHL has made it clear there needs to be overwhelming evidence in order to overrule a no-goal call made on the ice. In this instance, Andersen had made an incredible diving save with his stick on Ivan Barbashev before the puck briefly disappeared under his body. What was crucial in the league’s decision to uphold the call made by the officials was that they were reviewing whether Andersen was interfered with on Dorofeyev’s attempt to dislodge the puck from Andersen’s glove, not whether Andersen had it frozen.“The ruling on the play was goaltender interference,” Stephen Walkom, the NHL’s director of officiating, told a pool reporter. “(Hebert) waved it (off) immediately. He believed that it was under the goalie and the Vegas player went after the puck and interfered with the goalie and his ability to freeze the puck and waved it off immediately.”
John Tortorella has no regrets after Golden Knights’ failed Game 2 goal challenge
The call, no-goal on the ice, was upheld on review and Carolina scored a huge goal on the ensuing power play.













