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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery
177 never grasps the tube. If you watch the video, the popped tube merely gets snagged on their gripper, they never actively tried to grasp the tube.
While in many situations this season I would have liked to see more penalties called, especially for outside bumper zone contact, this is not one of them.
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Going back and watching again, you are correct. They never grab the tube.
However, seeing as they never attempted to score in that match, they should never have even raised their arm in the first place. The fact that their arm was raised all the way in the air, and contacting 233 outside of the bumper zone, while not attempting to score is illegal anyways.
They may not have intentionally got entangled, but it was clearly a conscious decision to use their arm to play defense.