{"id":229553,"date":"2025-10-21T14:42:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/229553\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T14:42:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T14:42:08","slug":"blatant-missed-call-in-canadiens-sabres-game-has-everyone-talking-this-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/229553\/","title":{"rendered":"Blatant Missed Call in Canadiens-Sabres Game Has Everyone Talking This Morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\nBlatant Missed Call in Canadiens-Sabres Game Has Everyone Talking This Morning&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>PUBLICATION<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/collaborators\/l.-honein\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">L. Honein<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tOctober 21, 2025\u00a0\u00a0(9:35)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/607051.webp.webp\" style=\"width:100%;\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Oct 20, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky (20) fights with Buffalo Sabres defenseman Rasmus Dahlin (26) during the third period at the Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: Eric Bolte-Imagn Images\" title=\"Oct 20, 2025; Montreal, Quebec, CAN; Montreal Canadiens forward Juraj Slafkovsky (20) fights with Buffalo Sabres defenseman Rasmus Dahlin (26) during the third period at the Bell Centre. Mandatory Credit: Eric Bolte-Imagn Images\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: Eric Bolte-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s rare that we revisit a missed penalty by the referees the day after a Montreal Canadiens game, but this one is something else.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s one particular sequence that&#8217;s getting a lot of attention today, as forward <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markerzone.com\/hockey\/stats\/nhl\/player\/Josh-Anderson-32443\" class=\"lien_marqueur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Josh Anderson profile and hockey stats\">Josh Anderson<\/a> was literally driven headfirst into the boards midway through the third period (by a Sabres defenseman), a sequence that could have gone very wrong for him, but fortunately, he came out of it uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>A major mistake by the referees on Montreal Canadiens forward Josh Anderson<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the referee was right next to the play and clearly saw what happened:<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s just say it doesn&#8217;t send a great message for a league that claims to want to better protect its players.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to understand how this wasn&#8217;t called a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, let&#8217;s recall that the Montreal Canadiens won 4-2 last night against the Sabres, as Martin St-Louis&#8217; squad earned a solid victory before their Western road trip.<\/p>\n<p>For Kapanen, it was already his fourth (4th) goal of the season, while Evans and Hutson each scored their first of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Dobes now has a record of 3-0-0 this season, with a goals-against average of 1.63 and a save percentage of .939.<\/p>\n<p>The Canadiens are currently tied for first in the Eastern Conference with 10 points.<\/p>\n<p>Previously on Habs Fanatics<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tHABSFANATICS.COM<br \/>COPYRIGHT @2025 &#8211; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/terms\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TERMS<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.habsfanatics.com\/politic\" class=\"lediv\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">POLICIES<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Blatant Missed Call in Canadiens-Sabres Game Has Everyone Talking This Morning&#13; &#13; PUBLICATION L.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[433],"tags":[3719,741,49,48,10100,32996,743,448,23803,82],"class_list":["post-229553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-bell-centre","tag-buffalo-sabres","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cole-caufield","tag-josh-anderson","tag-montreal-canadiens","tag-nhl","tag-referee","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}