Tim Peel strikes again with baffling no-goal call in Vancouver

It’s been a while since we had a real Tim Peel head-on-desk bafflingly bad call in the NHL, but it’s time to reset the “days without incident” clock after his no-goal in Vancouver on Thursday night.

In the second period, Daniel Sedin of the Vancouver Canucks put the puck past Sergei Bobrovsky of the Columbus Blue Jackets to make it 2-0. Peel immediately signaled that it was a goal … and then inexplicably began waving his arms that the goal didn’t count.

The call on the ice was overturned by the War Room and Sedin’s goal counted, although the Canucks would go on to lose 6-2.

What happened? From Eric MacKenzie of Vancouver 24hrs:

Alex Burrows, who picked up an assist on the play, was surprised a second look was needed.

“(Referee) Tim Peel, at first he pointed and then he waved it off – he thought it went underneath the side of the net for some reason,” said Burrows. “But I didn’t see the net go up, so I was pretty sure it was going to be a good goal. But I think that was his thinking on that.”

Ladies and gentlemen, please think about his thinking for a moment …

Peel is standing on the opposite side of where the goal is scored. The goal scorer is obscured by several bodies. The puck itself is obscured by Bobrovsky. That said, he actually has a better view of both of these things than he does the far side of the net, which Peel claims came off the ice to allow Sedin to beat Bobrovsky.

Once more, with feeling: Tim Peel felt a goal had been scored under the side of the net he couldn’t see, and under a net that NEVER ONCE MOVED OFF ITS MOORINGS AT ALL EVER during this sequence.

As I wrote after Peel and I had our powwow in New York: “Tim Peel can be a bad referee. His mistakes aren’t just goofs, they’re glaring, embarrassing moments.”

Your honor, I present into evidence …