B's Board offers sincere apology to Tim Peel - Eric Furlatt called the penalty in OT

[Fonzerelli]

If this is in response to my post on Peel, I wasn't talking about who called the penalty on Schaller.

Let's not forget the guy working the game, Tim Speel, is known as "a referee that many cite as one of the worst in the business"
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-p...d-how-it-blew-up-in-nhl-s-face-163926220.html

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-p...tim-peel--terrible-nhl-referee-150413270.html

Thanks NHL.

My post was more about who DIDN'T call the penalty on Ryan in the same sequence, not to mention the rest of the poorly called game in general. They are all culpable. I only singled out Peel because he is considered by many to be the worst ref in the NHL and I sarcastically "thanked" the NHL for sticking him in our series.

 

[sooshii]

does the NHL just stick its head in the sand on these issues? or do they ever come out and say a ref made a crucial mistake? i'm sure they evaluate them internally but i don't understand hiding it. be transparent.

I've never heard em do any second guessing or make any statements. Slippery slope, I'm sure, but something they should be looking into internally.

Freakin Bettman was at the game.

 

[HHHH]

Peel is terrible; almost as bad as Chris Rooney.

Not quite there yet, but giving Rooney a run for his money...

 

[Gordoff]

I've never heard em do any second guessing or make any statements. Slippery slope, I'm sure, but something they should be looking into internally.

Freakin Bettman was at the game.

Bettman is a businessman, he isn't a fan of the game and this is more proof of that. He couldn't care less about the game or our opinion of the poor officiating. The fish rots form the head and it's apparent that the head is a POS whose biggest concern is how he can make this league a global one, expansion will reach China by 2050.

 

[Gordoff]

A Bruins off ice official texted me that it was Eric Furlatt and not Tim Peel that called the penalty in OT of Game 3.

Furlatt who is from Quebec has bad memories about Boston.

Not quite sure what having an injury in Boston has to do with anything Kevin?
If it was a serious injury he's LUCKY that it happened in Boston and not Detroit or New Jersey etc.

 

[NDiesel]

Oh yeah non-story. I never blamed Peel for THAT call, he also just sucks. That whole game was called hilariously, and both ways at times. Consistency is all fans want. You can't have a scrum with punches result in no calls (Stone had a few) and then THAT be a call later on, and one way. The 2 refs talk between periods, there's a plan in mind.

Yep just brutal inconsistency. That call stunk and then adding in Schaller-Methot and Methot-Marchand not getting 2 for his punch sucked, Stone two-hands Chara and gets no call then Phaneuf two-hands Backes in the same spot and gets two - how can the players play not knowing what constitutes a penalty?

 

[BruinLVGA]

Yup, apology my...

I am still fuming about the refs and keeping my mouth shut because I don't need an infraction or something like that.

 

[Midship]

The inconsistent officiating ruined that game. Period.

 

[SPLBRUIN]

Not apologizing to either one of those clowns who officiated on Monday, they put the screws to us almost from the opening whistle. Is there some kind of unwritten rule that the Bruins cannot get more PP's then their opponents, it sure seems that way because it rarely happens. Whenever Boston gets the 1st PP or two, I just wait for the calls to even up no matter how the game is being played. Can you imagine Boston getting 5 PP's to 0 as Calgary did vs Anaheim recently ? Didn't think so.

 

[PatriceBergeronFan]

Not apologizing to either one of those clowns who officiated on Monday, they put the screws to us almost from the opening whistle. Is there some kind of unwritten rule that the Bruins cannot get more PP's then their opponents, it sure seems that way because it rarely happens. Whenever Boston gets the 1st PP or two, I just wait for the calls to even up no matter how the game is being played. Can you imagine Boston getting 5 PP's to 0 as Calgary did vs Anaheim recently ? Didn't think so.

Tonight is THE night for that if it ever will.

 

[talkinaway]

No apologies here. Sure, he didn't botch THAT call. But he's constantly lampooned as one of the most incompetent refs - and still, somehow, he gets to ref in the playoffs?

I remember reading that the refs sort of "play" in the post-season too, with (supposedly) the best refs moving forward from round-to-round. If this is the case, then Tim Peel is definitely the Maple Leafs of reffing, who only got in as a wild card due to loser points.

Seriously, how'd he get in the playoff ref pool to begin with? There are about 45 refs listed on the NHLOA site. Of those, about 10 are listed as AHL/NHL - let's assume those wouldn't be your go-to refs. That leaves 35. There are 8 series being run. Assuming refs don't work back-to-back for playoffs, that probably means 8 pairs of refs, for 16, plus 1 backup ref at each arena each day, for 20 refs in the pool total.

I can't imagine Peel's a top-20 ref. He literally got suspended JUST LAST YEAR for lifting his glass a little too high and smiling for the camera. I wonder what compromising pictures of Bettman he has.

(Wow. I estimated the 20 refs before checking the NHLOA site. I was on the nose.)

 

[PepeBostones]

I agree with Colt and most of the board here. I would never apologize such a fatal mistake. Terrible refereeing all night and it cost the Bruins the game. Suspend them.

 

[Fonzerelli]

The Peel & Furlatt show plays to packed houses everywhere

http://www.csnmidatlantic.com/washi...werent-they-caps-penalized-crazy-first-period

 

[Mantis]

He's still one of the most incompetent officials in professional sports.

This. Just an absolute joke.

 

[Lockheed]

Nah.

 

[PB37]

The B's board offers their middle fingers to Tim Peel and Eric Furlatt would be a more accurate thread title.

Just because he didn't make the call is by no means an exoneration, it just adds another name to the incompetent list. He didn't make the call but SHOULD have in the Nash/Ryan incident. He could have easily skated over, told Furlatt what he saw, and they could have given matching minors to them both. How two licensed NHL referees miss a blatant call in a critical playoff overtime game is beyond me. Did they think that Riley Nash, a veteran player who's lone fighting major came over 10 years ago in the BCHL, would just randomly punch another player from his knees?

They lost the game early and were inconsistent all night long. Those two aren't fit to officiate a game of table hockey, let alone a playoff game with actual rules. **** them both. Please tell them the Bruins board wishes that they go back to whatever clown college they graduated from.

 

[missingchicklet]

Screw Tim Peel. That turd still made bad calls all game long and missed many obvious ones. Individual calls do not matter to me when it comes to Peel. All I know is that when I see games in which he is involved those games are a gong show when it comes to reffing consistency and competence. I have zero respect for how he performs his job. Zero.

 

[GloveSave1]

That makes sense. The one that put us up 2-men on the Dion slash, right? And the tying goal. I wish we got that kind of consideration. We really have no home ice advantage.

 

[Colt.45Orr]

Caps just got screwed on a "goaltender interference" call .. take wild guess who the refs were.