At first, it looked as if a trick would be played on the hat-tossers. The chapeaus came flying from the stands of the Verizon Center after Washington's T.J. Oshie appeared to slip a wraparound just inside the post to beat Matt Murray and the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 1 of an Eastern Conference Semifinal game.
But, hold the phone. Did the puck actually cross the red line? At first, the camera angles looked bad for Oshie and the Caps, and for all the hat-tossers. But, on further review: good goal.
They appeared to make the right call on Oshie's hat-trick marker that beat the Penguins 4-3 in Game 1. A replay from the front, left side of the net looked to confirm that white space indeed appeared between the black puck and the red line, capping off a fun first game that was back and forth all the way.
"Close one, but glad it went in," Oshie told NBC's Pierre McGuire. "We thought we had the momentum on our side. We just wanted to stay patient."
Oshie, the former USA Olympic shootout darling who the Capitals acquired in the offseason from the St. Louis Blues, ...
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