Jon Cooper got reporters and analysts calling sources, rewinding multiple angles and squinting at freeze frames instead of breaking down what was a dominant fourth period by the better side in the 2022 Stanley Cup Final. (lukefoxjukebox)
Not only had the emotions of a difficult blown-lead overtime loss cooled, but the former lawyer is savvy enough to know there is no use belabouring “an unfortunate non-call,” as he put it, ahead of his team’s most important game of the season.He vented without explicitly ripping the referees or the league that governs them. He sucked some attention away from a pretty darn poetic Nazem Kadri playoff moment.
Do fans want video reviews for line changes and icings and, heck, why not proper face-off etiquette while we’re at it? A zillion times no. “Tampa’s got two guys jumping on with their D coming off the ice from a zone away. I count 7-6 at one point. So, that is what it is. That’s the way the game is played. I don’t see it as a break or a non-break. I actually see it as nothing,” Bednar said.
So fast, it wasn’t until after the coach stepped off the ice that he was shown the length of Kadri’s false start on video and got heated.“I apologize for last night because that’s what you get when you have to speak to the media right away,” Cooper said. “Did they get the better of us in overtime? There’s no question they did. But this is a game of breaks, and oftentimes you make them and sometimes you get them. And Colorado’s up 3-1 in this series because they’ve made a lot of breaks,” Cooper conceded.
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