I have NEVER seen this called before 

I love it how not only does he talk about what happened, but he also gives a short action packed game analysis

This is great game analysis! Five minutes is just enough time to get all of the important action in, as well as the interesting, unusual, and funny observations that you always seem to make. Nicely done!

when the colorado player touched the puck coming on the ice to change with his teammate he was changing with, that colorado teammate had both feet still on ice, while the 6th boston player was being called simultaneously.

Also the Avalanche commentators were awesome. I was laughing when he said "there handing out to many men penalty like popcorn tonight boys"

That was the absolute laziest penalty shot by Pasta. Dude is either red hot, or the turnover machine with zero ambition. There’s no in between.

We were at this game last night and it was an awesome crowd. The Boston Fans are to say the least very loud and vocal, but it was all tasteful and in good fun. Ribbing each way with lots of laughs... The double too many men on the ice was such a weird call. Seeing the replay here, I agree, the Refs were... well, they were Refs! Great Game. Glad the Avs came out on top of this Gritty Hockey Win!!!

That Pasta shoot-out "shot" was brutal!

I seem to remember a call when someone tripped on his own stick and got a call for embellishing.

At the 1:55 mark on the video the wide angle shows that neither referee is calling a delayed penalty for too many men. They hadn't noticed yet. So when the Bruins touch the puck they are not going to blow it down. They don't notice until the Colorado too many men occurs.

This channel is better than Eck. Just sayin'

Happened during the world juniors a few years ago between Canada and the US. Believe it was the gold medal game too

As a linesmen i find the to many men one of the hardest to see. If you lose focus on the puck for just a second you can miss an offside, icing, high stick. So yes. The game is sometimes a bit to fast :p

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I really think the game is moving too fast for the refs.

the 6 man call was brilliant: guy comes in and plays the puck while the other one has still both skates on the ice -> too many man and simultaneously the other team is just skating around with 6 guys -> both teams bench minor

Colorado too many men was a blown call he went over the boards for 2 seconds like that doesnt happen all the time. Nice job zebras

Guess we screwed the pooch 😅 haven't heard that in a minute 😂😂

This was a banger of a game top notch!

The first penatly would be against Boston. It should have been called when it happened and the second one shouldn't count.

The irony of mutual 6-skater calls resulting in 4v4 play.

This game featured outstanding play from both teams and both goaltenders, even though both sides had some bad gaffes. Fitting that it was tied after 65 minutes and two rounds of a shootout.

That goal by LOC was one of the sexiest goals I’ve seen this season.

Looks like the Avs got shafted on that call

Icing call/no call is just bizarre at this point

I’m so mad I fell asleep. But I was reeeeally high mkay. Like two peanut butter and jellies high mkay. Then I laid down and my dog started snuggling. I was powerless mkay. I fell asleep fast, like reeeeally fast mkay.

the ref probably didn't notice until the avs call was made and the linesman advised of the boston infraction. it happens and they can make the call after the fact.

''Stripes'' 🤣🤣🤣

The avs bruins calls were fucking hilarious

looks like a great call from the Ref

I was reffing a girl's AAA summer tournament and I had to call too many players 3 times in a row on one team because the dad running the door couldn't handle his duties... my partner and I even tried to help but no dice lol

I was at this game yesterday and we were all so confused lmao. The referee's mic wasn't working last nightbut I could VERY clearly read his lips that said "too many men on the ice". He then pointed in only direction and yet both teams ended up in the 4v4 lol.

Stayed up till midnight to listen to my Bruins lose (can't watch it cause its "out of region") great game though

Boston was going to get a TMM penalty but had to touch the puck for a whistle. Meanwhile, the Colorado player entering the ice played the puck before the exiting player was off the ice ... so the whistle happened because Col had the puck. Not an officiating problem at all ... just a freak coincidence that rarely if ever happens.

How do both teams have possession of the puck at the same time ?

Former lacrosse official here. I've seen co-incidental too many before. It's been years since I officiated a game, so I may be wrong on the boxlax rules but IIRC if the non-possessing team has two many men, its a delayed penalty. But if the attacking team butchers the goalie-to-the-bench swap .... you can see where this is going. Maybe some other Canadian boxlax ref with more recent experience (and a rulebook) can elaborate ....

Rantanens goal was just nasty

Ok, I'm a ref - this was, as you said, the refs "screwing the pooch". If Boston has too many men (TMM) on the ice, and they have the puck, the play should be blown dead. Nothing after that point matters, so you ignore the Avs TMM. (By the way, technically you can have 6 skaters on the ice at the same time, AS LONG AS the player coming on doesn't play the puck before the player he's replacing gets off.) That didn't happen here so technically Colorado had TMM. But, since the penalized team (Bruins) played the puck after committing the TMM infraction, the whistle should have gone to kill the play, and the Avs TMM is irrelevant. This was a case of the refs getting together to try to minimize their mistake. But with all the cameras, the truth is easy to spot. I don't like calling out refs, but when they're wrong, they're wrong. And calling it like it is is what makes a good referee.

Apparently a double too-many-men call has happened in the World Juniors before, but I don’t know what specific game.

Nothing is more crazy than the refs calling “Every player on the ice has a 2 minute penalty”

That rantanen goal was funny

Never seen that in 25 yrs of coaching. One time I had a player tripped and there was a delayed penalty. We had the puck for over 30 seconds and when the other team got possession play continued for 10-12 seconds and then the ref called the penalty on my team. I didn't finish that game on the bench...ha

That’s just funny. Reminds me of Slapshot.

If you watch the ref wearing number 9 he’s pointing to both benches saying “I got both of them for too many men”

Nope, never saw that in over 30 years watching hockey.

I've been watching hockey for 55 years and I can't remember ever seeing this happen. Pretty odd. They to make too many men reviewable.

I was at this game and the entire sequence was super confusing to witness. It didn't help that there have been audio issue with the refs mics the last couple games at Ball Arena. In this case, the ref was completely muted so we knew it was too many men, but figured it was just on Colorado. When it was on both teams I remarked that I bet that's never happened before in the history of the NHL.

I'm glad Marchand didn't pull off the Ovi "hat trick"

I'm pretty sure the refs this year made slamming each others heads in the door before taking the ice their pre-game ritual.

as an official. That should've just been icing, no penalties.

While this is really strange indeed, they messed up when Boston had possession and they should have whistled. Although... if that happened, Colorado doesn't have the time for that line change and they don't get caught in that penalty too. They messed up...

I was at this game it was insane

Unless the changing players are involved in play, the too many men call is at the discretion of the ref, so Boston getting the puck does not automatically stop play (or maybe it was not really an infraction initially because the leaving Boston player was within 5 feet of the bench). But, no icing. The leaving Boston player seemed to never leave the ice. When the Boston defence-man played the puck forward and Boston still had too many men, the ref was like okay, that’s it. Unfortunately, Colorado also had too many men at that point as well (the Colorado player that entered the ice played the puck before the player leaving was in the box so that’s an automatic penalty -the 5 foot buffer is not even considered). This is my reading of the rule, but maybe not the only way refs could handle this sort of thing. Considering the waved-off icing, I suspect the refs got the penalties right, as strange as it is.

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This happened in our bantam game once

what was that shootout attempt by pasternok?

2006 is the last time this happened (From THG's Video)

if you don't see it, how do you call it?

I'm new to hockey but it confuses me... Why the goal at the beginning was so special?

TWO Many Men

Refs aside this would be a great cup series

Do any of you beauties know why val doesn't do interviews? I have noticed it a lot this year watching the avs.

3 on 3 OT is the most exciting aspect of the game. Why not make it for 10 or 12 minutes, then 5 minute intermission if needed then another 10-12 minutes 3 on 3, etc. I suspect only one OT will be needed in 99% of the time.

Imagine having a functioning power play 😅

nah nah nah! there where still 6 boston players when colorado was called for it, u see the 6th player bottom right when the call the avs. =)

Me being a huge bruins fan I don’t really like how he mispronounced Marchand which sounds like Marshawn and I also don’t like how he said PAHsta it’s pasta, but anyways love your vids. Keep it up

Anybody else saw the very obvious cross check in the end of the 3rd on Boston that wasn’t called but it caused nichuskin to fall and hand touch the puck?

Any loss for the Booins is a good game.

Refs messed up

I'm guessing embellishment or charging.

Soooo, did they have 5 on the ice after they sent 1 to the fridge for each team? 🤣

usually the 'too many' also have to be in the play... colorado definitely did not have that... Bruins had too many for an obscene amount of time..

I think this year more than any we are seeing some pretty bad calls. This is harmless and funny but the state of reffing seems to be in bad shape. Never seen an offsetting too many men call before lol.

I just hate 3 on 3 and shoot outs completely takes away from the excitement of games. The best team on the ice does always win. I really wish these would go away make a team sport back to team sport.

I think the lightness of the blue in Colorado's uniforms is ugly ... but I like it

It seems like the referees should have blown the whistle before the Avs got too many players on the ice. The B’s were caught with too many players but the referees delayed the penalty, which is correct. But once the B’s got ‘possession and control’ of the puck, the whistle should have ended the play. That appeared to have been BEFORE the Av’s had too many players on the ice. But it was tough to tell just from the video.

Come to the UK mate. The Refs here make new shit up every week!

Avalanche did not have too many players. I’ve been playing hockey for over 20 years, since I was 4y/o, and that’s just how you do a line change. There is always a bit of overlap. If they’re gonna call that, they better call every single line change in history

Too many men on the ice. The Avs go to play. I surprised it wasn't 7 men on the ice

"March-ie"? Don't you mean Marsh-ie?

Every team is trying to get 1 on or over on their opponents,

I'm not gonna lie, I'm surprised so many Boston fans were in Colorado. It's one thing to see a bunch of their fans in eastern conference cities (not any less annoying but I digress) but Colorado is pretty far from Boston. That city must suck the big one to live in with all the people liking their teams moving away from there.

The refs have been absolutely terrible this season and seems like each season it gets worse and worse!!?? It's absolutely absurd how terrible they've been!!? There's 0 consistency at all!!?? They'll let blatant penalties go that r done right in front of them but then they'll call the weakest shit ever especially if it's a hooking or holding call!!? Some of the ridiculous shit they call as hooking is just unbelievable!? They're calling guys for hooking just cuz he was reaching to try to knock puck off guys stick and at some point in the process the guys stick shaft happens to nick other guys glove and they call hooking!!? They see the smallest bit of stick to glove contact and they'll call hooking even when there was 0 hooking happening at all and the guys stick isn't up in the guys hands it just touched the backhand part of his glove!!? They really need to go back to school on what is and isn't hooking and holding and stuff like that!? With holding too they'll call a guy for holding but all guys doing is putting his free hand on other guys back for a second while they're pushing and shoving in a scrum along the boards!? I've seen them call a few guys for that and guy didn't even hold guy at all!? And other times they've called guys for holding,when there was no hold, just cuz they happened to have one hand off their stick and r trying to fend off (kinda stiff arm) guy going at him!? Some of the shit they've called is just complete shit!!? And there's times where a penalty will get called but it's not the ref who was right there with best view of play that calls it it's the ref that's furthest away from play and couldn't have seen what really happened and they'll let it stand for some dumb reason!? You'd think in situations like that the ref who was right there and saw what happened and didn't see anything worthy of a penalty would get other refs together and say "hey no there's no penalty on play cuz I was right there and saw it...and whoever called it obviously was mistaken!" But instead for some dumbass reason the ref who was right there and saw everything and knows there was no penalty on play just doesn't say anything and just let's other guy make a call that I'm sure he knows is completely wrong!!? It's ridiculous!!? That's whole reason there's 4 officials out on ice so they can get together and talk over anything questionable and get call right!!? It's absolutely fucking ridiculous that we're still having to deal with shitty officiating effecting the outcomes of games and sometimes very important games at that!!? We have the technology and video replay and stuff so there should be no reason to have to be living with terrible wrong calls, sometimes they even know call was wrong but they still uphold the call!? It's ridiculous and there's no reason y we shouldn't be able to make sure the right calls r made!!? I say they need to add 1-2 more officials,but not on the ice!? I think they should add 1-2 officials and have them up top, like up near where broadcasters sit, and give them access to replay and have it so they can radio down to officials on ice. And those 1-2 officials up top can kinda do same kinda thing that the video coaches that each team has does!? That way when games going on they can be watching too and if anything questionable happens they can quickly look at replay and radio down the correct call for officials on ice to make!? And like anytime there's a penalty called the guys up top could quickly look at replay and just double check that the correct call was made that way if ref on ice that made call was mistaken, like say a high stick was called but guys up top looked at it real quick and saw that it was guys own stick or his teammates stick that actually hit him!? Then they could inform refs on ice and they could correct the call!!?? It wouldn't really add that much time to games and personally I wouldn't care if it made games an hour longer as long as they were getting the calls right and calling a fair game and we weren't having terrible wrong calls effecting outcomes of games I could care less really!!? Who cares if it ads a lil more time to games really!? Hockey games would still be faster and WAY more exciting than Football is and Football is like the biggest sport with tons of fans!? Football games r really long and boring with lots of nonsense with nothing happening but plenty of people still religiously watch it!!?? So doing something that may or may not add a tiny bit of time to hockey games but will definitely result in the correct calls being made and will make it so games don't end up being decided by wrong calls then id be all for it!!?

Great video apart from the Nikki Haley ad in the beginning

Its very simple. The bruins aren't allowed to be on the pp. The bruins are also getting penalties for doing legal things. They got a penalty for delay of game when the opposing player very clearly deflected it.

Officials definitely waited too late for the initial TMM call on Boston. Colorado should have a had a power play. It was 6 players for Boston for far too long... way before the ever-so-close TMM on Colorado.

2006 or 2008

Go Bs

AVs beat the fix

Shouldn't that be "offsetting fouls"? GG Av's. Come on B's...do better!

Crosscheck and Slash as much as you want, but god forbid somebody falls down or there are too many men. 😂😂 this league is an embarrassment for everyone watching.

Lol Refs not knowing how to do their jobs, and making calls to benefit the Bruins. Typical day in the NHL.

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Go avs

the officiating in the league is a joke and has been for years

I understand that there were too many men for Colorado, but they both were within the 10ft rule for changes. How is that too many if the players were 10ft to the bench and neither one was involved in the play?????

what a waste of a shootout attempt from pasta

Bro, why aren't you covering the most exciting team this year? The Canucks. Highest scoring team and fun to watch. Like you are sleeping on them.

Not that hard. Delayed penalty for too many men against Boston. But then Colorado committed their too many men while in possession of the puck so play is blown dead and offsetting minors are called.

NHL referees or Keystone Kops ..... I can never get them straight as to which is which! my opinion 🦂

we need more refs... said the NHL. hows that working