‘It’s a dirty play’: Golden Knights’ Stone on missed Arvidsson call in Oilers’ overtime win

The Edmonton Oilers scored in overtime to defeat the Vegas Golden Knights 5-4 and give themselves a 2-0 lead in their second-round series. But just minutes earlier, a battle for a loose puck between Oilers’ forward Viktor Arvidsson and Golden Knights’ defender Brayden McNabb resulted in the Vegas blueliner crashing awkwardly into the boards, forcing him to leave the game.

No penalty was called on the play, and the Golden Knights weren’t too happy about it.

“(It’s) pretty clear it’s a penalty,” Mark Stone told reporters after the game. “His stick is between McNabb’s legs, he sends him head-first into the boards. Pretty clear-cut penalty in my eyes, and I think everybody’s eyes, right? But it’s hockey, you don’t always get the calls, but unfortunately now we might be down a D-man. We’ll see tomorrow. It’s a dirty play and we don’t get the call.”

Vegas Head Coach Bruce Cassidy called out the official by name.

“Listen, Gord (Dwyer) is looking at it. He blew it, he missed the call. I don’t know what else to say,” Cassidy said. “It’s a can-opener trip, it’s a dangerous play, it’s all those things. But it didn’t get called so you got to keep playing.”

Cassidy didn’t have a status update for McNabb for Game 3.

The Oilers had a 4-2 lead early in the third period when Victor Oloffson scored a power play to cut the deficit to one. Midway through the third, Alex Pietrangelo scored his second of the playoffs to tie the game at four.

But in overtime, soon after the incident with Arvidsson and McNabb, Connor McDavid fed Leon Draisaitl with a pass on a two-on-one, and the German forward buried it to give the Oilers a 2-0 series lead as the two teams head back to Edmonton for Game 3.