Official NHL playoffs thread.

[McWatt]

Marleau's "boarding" on a non-contact play in the first, Bertuzzi's "holding" for being sort of near the guy with the puck, and Heatley's goalie interference for being checked from behind into Howard were the worst three calls tonight, but there were half a dozen Sharks penalties and at least ten Wings penalties that should have been called but weren't. In the regular season you can count on all the bad calls to even out, but in a short series they're more worrisome.

 

[JD50]

fricken defense and shot blocking will get ya every time.

btw, that's the halak I remember... not the one in game 1 where numerous times he's sprawling and reaching behind his body for the puck with his glove... wtf was that?

/caps fan.

:thumbsup:

 

[Sentrosi2121]

I WANT to believe that the refs call a fair game....

 

[meltdown75]

lol

 

[SP33Demon]

Marleau's "boarding" on a non-contact play in the first, Bertuzzi's "holding" for being sort of near the guy with the puck, and Heatley's goalie interference for being checked from behind into Howard were the worst three calls tonight, but there were half a dozen Sharks penalties and at least ten Wings penalties that should have been called but weren't. In the regular season you can count on all the bad calls to even out, but in a short series they're more worrisome.

Well good thing it's not a short series then.

 

[Aquaman]

Canucks got the split......... now to try to win game 2 and get the gravy

Gonna be a hard fought game....... the Hawks are gonna come out hard.

Go Canucks Go!!!

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[coloumb]

I WANT to believe that the refs call a fair game....

yeah..I think most go by their gut / personal feelings

I play in a house league at the local rink and see it quite a lot. You can tell when the game isn't going to go well for your team when they start blowing the whistle for crap they wouldn't normally penalize you for.

One ref may just not like a certain player and throw him in the box for doing or saying something that any other player wouldn't be penalized for. While another ref commented he wanted a certain team to win so he'd watch them a lot closer.

 

[MotF Bane]

wtf refs? Savard to the box, nothing for Carcillo?

 

[sandorski]

woot raymond!!

 

[SP33Demon]

wtf refs? Savard to the box, nothing for Carcillo?

Nope, the refs have no sympathy for someone who slashes the goalies glove 2 seconds after the whistle. Carcillo has been GREAT, drawing 2 penalties with none taken. Not to mention the uppercuts he gave to Savard for fcking with Boucher on that penalty.

 

[SP33Demon]

Flyers need a big penalty kill here...

 

[Dominato3r]

Canucks

 

[sdifox]

Score!!!!

 

[SP33Demon]

Jesus Boucher mishandling the puck and Briere had to take a penalty for him... here we go again...

 

[sdifox]

unless the coach can yell some sense into the Blackhawks in the locker, this is going to turn out badly for them.

 

[SP33Demon]

Score!!!!

Wow 2-0 with 13:59 left to go for that game??? May as well switch to Flyers/Bruins, it's gonna be a blowout. I've been saying that Chicago = overrated anyway.

 

[sdifox]

well, they woke up

 

[Train]

lol, does Pronger get a save for that?

 

[SP33Demon]

And grats Bruins on the hard fought win. Philly didn't play hard enough until down that goal late. Fack.

 

[SP33Demon]

lol, does Pronger get a save for that?

Yeah that was a sweet move there...

 

[MotF Bane]

Yeah that was a sweet move there...

Indeed it was.

 

[sandorski]

Chicago really needed that goal. Got them back into the game and they seem reinvigorated by it. Could be a close game from here on out.

 

[KeithTalent]

Bah, had completely forgotten about the live stream at CBC.ca.

Great stuff so far!

KT

 

[SP33Demon]

I'm listening on http://www.teamradio.ca/canucks/index.php?

 

[Dominato3r]

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