Predators' Forsberg: Overturned buzzer beater 'clearly a goal'

Filip Forsberg is quite convinced he and his Nashville Predators were robbed of a late, game-tying goal Tuesday in Florida.

The winger put the puck in the net with less than a second remaining in regulation, but upon further review, it was waved off due to goaltender interference.

"It's a goal," he said, per Adam Vingan of The Tennessean. "It's got to be a goal.

"I don't know what's going on," he continued. "It's so inconsistent that we don't even know when it's a goal or not, but this one was clearly a goal. The puck was never covered. The goalie had no clue where it (was), and it ends up on my tape and it's in. And they somehow don't think so. I disagree 100 percent."

The NHL later clarified the ruling, saying "the deliberate actions of (Predators forward Viktor) Arvidsson's stick caused Luongo to spin and cause the covered puck to come loose prior to the goal."

The league recently tried to resolve the ongoing saga of questionable goalie interference calls, putting a retired referee in the war room in Toronto. Still, Forsberg isn't convinced it's working.

"Either the refs don't know or Toronto doesn't know," he said. "They're definitely not on the same page because there's so many different situations and similar situations, too, that get called both ways. I don't know who made the call here, but they definitely didn't get it right."

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