I'll make a second post for officiating, the NHL has to do something with this shit. Like, the goal Edmonton scored where they blew the play dead, they reviewed it, but when the Flames scored and the ref blew it early we couldn't get a review? f***ing wot?
Then the penalties too make no sense, there were tons of times when it happened, but I'll use this as an example, guy cross checks a Flame which breaks his stick, no call, guy slashes Zadorov's stick out of his hand, no call, guy barely gets his stick into a Flames players hand, that gets called, again what in the f***?
Early in the game, they take 2 Flames and only 1 Oiler in a scrum, which by itself makes no sense because the second Flame they took was the player who took the first punch yet he goes? Then later in the game Coleman takes the GI penalty (legit call), but then gets crosschecked twice in the back on the ice and only Coleman gets the penalty? The f***?
Don't even get me started on the Gaudreau embellishment call after f***ing Bouchard throws his head back like he was sniped from the 2nd deck. Absolute joke.
Officiating was probably 1/10 probably closer to -2/10, nothing makes sense at all, like AT ALL.
Again though, Flames deserved to lose by blowing 2 goal leads, twice; then giving up a shorty seconds into a critical PP in the 3rd, brutal.
Edit: I'll add this too, the Tkachuk penalty against Nurse was horseshit. Nurse gets a new stick after we score and immediately puts the blade right into Toffoli's mouth, but since Matty sticks up for his teammate it's coincidental? f***ing horseshit, should have been 2 for Tkachuck and 4 for Nurse, ridiculous that that was an even up call when Nurse pulls that kind of shit.
