Story by (Marc DesRosiers-IMAGN Images)Steve WarneWed, December 10, 2025 at 2:37 AM UTC·2 min readIt was a play you don’t see very often in the National Hockey League. In the first period of the Senators’ 4-3 loss to the New Jersey Devils at Canadian Tire Centre Tuesday night, winger Drake Batherson was down below the goal line, behind the Devils’ net, when the puck squirted toward him. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementInstinctively, he tried to control the puck with his right skate. The puck then caromed off his blade toward the front of the net. However, because of where Devils goalie Jacob Markstrom was set up, the puck deflected off him and into the net. Batherson and the Senators celebrated, but when the goal went to review, it was ruled that he had kicked the puck into New Jersey's net, or by letter of the law, he had "made a distinct kicking motion."Sens Nation cried foul from several perspectives. First, and this is the most obvious point, they believed there was no distinct kicking motion at all.