so once again a head official who made a insane call in favour of L.A. and against a Canadian team has to come on TV to try to explain why the call was made and ends up babbling away for like 4 minutes contradicting himself and all.
kind of like this:
Oh well water under the bridge EH!... no biggie.
Of course tonight was only game 3 of the first round and any team that can't kill penalties is dead anyway.
Sure i believe Sedin was aware of what was happening when it was happening, but that's what great players do let it happen. Like a great defenseman running "unintentional interference". That's what you do you as a forward you stop in front of the net and fight for position and if the puck goes off you and into the net that's a great play.
Just seems kind of weird that the last game was decided on an overtime power play where a referee decided that a defenseman purposely played the puck with his foot as he was cut in the face and trying to get off just a few feet from the bench.
I mean Vancouver lost by 2 goals anyway but the balance of bad calls seems tilted... but as the study goes we competitive people always see it that way.
the most annoying thing now is that i watched the game unnessicarily. You see i had Choir practice when the game was on, but a neighbour and fellow hockey man (also a person with multiple children) taped the game on PVR and started watching it later. A fine plan to put the kids to bed and then watch the game at your speed plowing through all of the silly comercials and commentary. Which in theory is good, but in practice was bad. Seeing L.A. get the benefit of all these calls has brought a lot of the rage back... need to rewatch some Olympic Hockey and put this nonsense out of my soul.
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