Örebro’s Noah Steen received a match penalty for boarding.
Now the experts are raging against the situation.
– DIt’s a boring situation for everyone involved, says SVT’s Jonas Andersson.
It was in the middle of the third period in Thursday’s SHL match between Örebro and HV71 that the unfortunate situation occurred. Örebro’s great promise Noah Steen tackled Hugo Fransson, who had his back to the ice and his face to the rim.
Noah Steen received a match penalty
The HV71 defender had to break the game and there were nasty pictures that unfolded – and Noah Steen received a match penalty for boarding. Örebro was in the lead, 4-3, when the match penalty came, and nine minutes remained in the match. But the home team managed to hold tight during the five-minute suspension that followed, and they eventually won 5-3.
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Afterwards, Noah Steen was remorseful, and he apologized to his teammates.
– Yes, it was probably the worst five minutes of my entire life. I went and thanked everyone in the dressing room now after the game. It was a great job by the guys who solved it in box play, he tells NA.
At the same time, TV4’s expert Sanny Lindström said that the match penalty was correctly awarded.
– I think it’s a clear match penalty on Noah Steen. He sees the numbers all the way to Fransson, and therefore I think it should be a match penalty, he says.
The Wrath of the Expert
But he was not supported by his expert colleagues. Staffan Kronwall certainly believed that the match penalty was correct, but that Fransson himself has a responsibility in the situation.
– Then when you see the numbers, you can’t push as hard as Steen does, but I think somewhere that you are responsible for your own health. To put yourself in a better situation and not take the risk with: “He must not tackle me when my back is against the curb”, “When I cross a pedestrian crossing, the cars must stop”. Is it a risk worth taking? I don’t think so, he says.
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But Jonas Andersson, an expert in SVT, believes that it did not deserve a match penalty. He even believes that it shouldn’t even have been a deportation.
– He (Fransson) takes two looks over his shoulder and yet he chooses to turn inward and makes himself totally vulnerable. In my opinion, Steen has nowhere to go but tackle here, says Andersson, and continues:
– This will be a match penalty. It shouldn’t even be two minutes.
– But it is a boring situation for everyone involved, he concludes.
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