"Well he blew the whistle. If he loses sight of it, he blew the whistle clearly before we shot it into the net. That's what I see," Bednar said. "Do I think he should have blown the whistle? I think it was loose, but no, I don't think it would have counted."
All in all, it wasn't a losing effort from Colorado. The squad finished with 30 shots on goal, 53 attempts at the net and some solid momentum.
"I felt like we played a strong game. I feel offensively, we're getting better and we're creating a whole lot more shots," Landeskog said. "We got to keep doing that. As frustrating as this is, in my mind we tied it up at the end and we're going into overtime right now. But things happen and we didn't come up with any points.
"I know it sucks telling you guys this, but we have to keep building off of this and we have to keep getting better. If we hang our heads over this one, it's only going to get worse. We have to take the positives and move forward, and really tonight I feel like we did some good things."
Veteran defenseman Francois Beauchemin agreed with the assessment.
"We did a lot of good things. Going into the third, we had a good feeling. We had a big kill at the end of the second. We had three minutes to kill," Beauchemin said. "We didn't give them much, and then it felt like coming into the third we would feel good about ourselves. We were back in the offensive zone the first shift. Mikko [Rantanen] controlled the puck behind the net and then hit Tyson [Barrie], who had a good shot. It was a good start for us, but after that it was just a couple mistakes."