“My view is on goalie interference, because their player skated into the blue paint, made contact with our goalie, which affected the play, which is the rule,” Muse added. “He came in and made contact. Afterwards, there’s a little bit of push (from Letang). He initiated the contact in there.
“So, by the rules of goalie interference, I still feel like it’s goalie interference, and it seems like it changes day to day right now. People can maybe question some of the challenges I’ve made. There’s been a lower percentage (ones), but this one I thought was pretty clear.”
At that point, the game had been tied. The Penguins surrendered a shorthanded goal in the first period, with Ryan McLeod picking off a pass along the boards and converting a breakaway. But Bryan Rust got it back with his trademark move, powering to the net for a shorthanded breakaway goal of his own.
So, while the Norris power-play goal only gave Buffalo a 2-1 lead, the cumulation of everything that had happened was difficult for the Penguins to overcome in the moment.
“Obviously, anytime you go down 5-on-3 on something you might not agree with, I think it can affect negatively,” Rust said. “Probably need to do a little bit better of a job kind of managing our emotions in that situation, but it’s hard to dig out of.”
