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JordanStaal#1Fan
Every one says don't blame the refs for the loss. Ok fine, even though the refs put their whistles away, the pens minus fleury should still have won the game 3-2.
You say the refs don't affect the outcome of the game.
Here is an example. In the flyer series, Briere scores a goal when he was clearly offside. They go on to win the game in OT. Next game, I believe the Pens were up either 2-1 or 3-1 and on the power play. Bryz makes a fantastic save on Letang, Letang gets crosschecked. A penalty is called on the Fly D and Letang for embellishing. The pens should have had a 5 on 3 but the refs wanted to give the Flies a chance and they took advantage the same as last night.
The REFS affect the outcomes of games PERIOD.
They do affect the outcomes of games, yeah, sure. However you can't blame them for how we have been playing in the playoffs for the last 3-4 years. The same issues are popping up everytime. That's not one or two random games in which the refs cost us, it is years of failures. Blaming the refs for the way our team is playing is Pejorative Slured. Sure, they made some bad calls yesterday, but it doesn't change the fact that we played like dogs for 40 minutes. We stopped trying and fell in "prevent" mode. Fleury kept us in it for 39 and a half minutes than choked.
That's what happened. Blaming the refs is playing the excuse game and I refuse to do that.