Post-Game Talk: GAME #30 - Spooner wins it in OT - OLE OLE OLE - BRUINS 2 Habs 1 F/OT

[sirmaxalot]

As far as I read the rules, Sportsnet is wrong. It says nothing about not allowing Coach's Challenge in the last minute or OT, it only says the league can initiate a challenge as well as a Coach.

True. I'm wondering why MTL didn't immediately initiate their challenge? Why chance that the league may not since it seemed like the Refs let Boston leave?

Either way, I would like to find out the amount of times the league has reviewed, without challenge indicated by coaches, plays that seemed perfectly fine for GWGs in OT on very choppy inconclusive evidence.

Was the rule that the league could signal a ref to blow a play dead not adopted at some point or was that scrapped?

 

[pgm16]

What a wonderful week this will be, no matter what happens !!!!.....

 

[BMC]

This league needs to find another scheduling format. Need more rivalries, not less.

Yes. While it's nice to see the Blackhawks etc. I'd much rather see a schedule focused on division & conference play. Preferably division.

 

[bbfan419]

I have no fear of the habs they are frauds and mere pretenders, sure they got off to a great start again, but goal scoring from the likes of Byron, Daneault, Mitchell and Flynn will dry up soon enough. Radulov and Weber are good, but not as good as their fans think, these guys were playing off emotion for a new team in a hockey hotbed, but that can't last all year. Price is good, but can be beaten, Galchenyuk could be out awhile as well. This habs team like last year will fall.

 

[Rubber Biscuit]

I have no fear of the habs

This. I was significantly less afraid of Weber on the ice OT than I ever was of Subban

 

[sirmaxalot]

This. I was significantly less afraid of Weber on the ice OT than I ever was of Subban

This. I'd also like to add

Awwww `member Subban?!?!?!? I 'member!

 

[Otherworld]

No discipline for Krug. Rightly so ...

 

[bbfan419]

This. I was significantly less afraid of Weber on the ice OT than I ever was of Subban

Exactly although Weber is a tougher guy and better defender, also has a shot like Subban and Subban was also prone to some giveaways, but he could just skate so well you were always afraid he would make that rush and set up a goal. With Weber I don't feel that way at all as skating for him is not a strength he is average at it.

 

[bbfan419]

No discipline for Krug. Rightly so ...

If he even had gotten a 1 game suspension, then Shaw and Emelin should have been gone for 10. Good for Torey for standing up for himself as well against that big tough guy Gallagher.

 

[Ladyfan]

Emelin's "hipcheck" on Marchand. I seem to remember Marchand getting suspended for a "lowbridge" when he dished one out.

Quaider getting turnbuckled. I seem to remember a similar play that resulted in hundreds of calls to the police when it was Chara dishing it out.

Rask getting checked in open ice. I seem to remember when Lucic took out Ryan Miller, people called him an out and out goon.

Some teams are protected and some teams are targeted. Just fed up with the double standard in the NHL.

It was pretty bad last night. The guys in stripes let the fans call the game

If Brad did that he would be suspended.

 

[Ladyfan]

The NHL head office needs to have tape of that game sent in to them --that was brutal officiating.

I wonder if they ever review that stuff ??

It was one of the worst called games that I have seen in awhile.

 

[RustyBruins72]

he has won his last 5 games in Montreal.

It's in Boston where he has had trouble winning.

He lost on October 16th, 2014 in Montreal.

I'm not sure they've played 5 games in Montreal with him starting since then.

 

[Ladyfan]

Lucic would have loved to play in that game last night

It was more fun when Looch played.

 

[NDiesel]

It was pretty bad last night. The guys in stripes let the fans call the game

If Brad did that he would be suspended.

I'm a fan of Brad's "hipchecks", I think they are necessary for a guy like him to prevent big guys from running him when they know in the back of their mind he could duck them at any moment.

That being said, if Emelin threw that hit on any player on this team over 6', that hit could be career ending. We were lucky it was on our shortest player. Way lower than the Colbourne one.

 

[Grasshopperking]

This. I'd also like to add

Awwww `member Subban?!?!?!? I 'member!

Hehe oh salad days!!

It's nice to see him elsewhere, now I can fully appreciate his game without the nagging fact that he played for such a puke organization

 

[Otherworld]

If he even had gotten a 1 game suspension, then Shaw and Emelin should have been gone for 10. Good for Torey for standing up for himself as well against that big tough guy Gallagher.

Marchand was suspended for the same type of hit Emelin through on him ......

It would not have surprised me if Krug got a 1 game suspension, because he is a Bruin ....

Marchand hits Paches like Emelin hit Marchand .... he gets a 5 game suspension guaranteed ....

 

[Deedot]

It was pretty bad last night. The guys in stripes let the fans call the game

If Brad did that he would be suspended.

Agreed on both counts.

IMO, the removal of the instigator penalty would end a lot of this dirty tactics that some players like to employ and hide behind with their s*** eating grins. They know that someone like McQuaid or K. Miller won't just haul off and beat the snot out of them after some of the dangerous hits they dished out last night so they are free to play over the edge without fear of retribution. I'm not a big fan of fighting for fighting's sake (especially the staged fights) but when a player steps over the line he should be made to answer the bell. Krug stepped up when he didn't need to but time & time again players like Shaw, Emelin and others simply just skate away. Let the players decide what is acceptable or not on the ice.

What I also love is that you don't hear CJ or the players complaining to the media about what occurred last night. But Therrien on the other hand...just another reason for me to hate the Habs.

 

[JAD]

I wonder if they ever review that stuff ??

It was one of the worst called games that I have seen in awhile.

People said the game with Philly was bad too. What is with the officiating?

 

[RussellmaniaKW]

He lost on October 16th, 2014 in Montreal.

I'm not sure they've played 5 games in Montreal with him starting since then.

sorry, you're right. When I looked it up earlier it was sorted by GAA & I didn't realize it. Here's his Bell Centre record over the last few years:

So even though he's had a few losses, he played well in most of them. Basically he's had one game in Montreal since 2012 that could be considered "bad" and has won 4 of his last 5.

 

[Rubber Biscuit]

sorry, you're right. When I looked it up earlier it was sorted by GAA & I didn't realize it. Here's his Bell Centre record over the last few years:

So even though he's had a few losses, he played well in most of them. Basically he's had one game in Montreal since 2012 that could be considered "bad" and has won 4 of his last 5.

Do you have the numbers in Boston? I bet there's a few losses where he only gave up a goal or 2.

 

[RussellmaniaKW]

Do you have the numbers in Boston? I bet there's a few losses where he only gave up a goal or 2.

this link should work:
http://www.hockey-reference.com/pla...in=1&player_game_max=9999&pos=G&order_by=date

it definitely gets uglier when you look at the home games but there are quite a few where he only gave up 2 and still lost.

 

[Fenway]

Mitch Melnick from TSN 690 blogs about last night

http://www.mitchmelnick.com/the-good-the-bad-the-ugly-game-29-montreal-1-boston-2-ot/

Just when you thought it was safe to put the Habs-Bruins rivalry status on hold (until the next playoff meeting), we get a big hit on a young star forward, followed by an open ice head shot, followed by a fight and an overtime victory by the underdog.

Who needs Milan Lucic after all?

 

[VanIsle]

sorry, you're right. When I looked it up earlier it was sorted by GAA & I didn't realize it. Here's his Bell Centre record over the last few years:

So even though he's had a few losses, he played well in most of them. Basically he's had one game in Montreal since 2012 that could be considered "bad" and has won 4 of his last 5.

All the games he has won he has only let in 1 goal, poor guy.

 

[Rubber Biscuit]

this link should work:
http://www.hockey-reference.com/pla...in=1&player_game_max=9999&pos=G&order_by=date

it definitely gets uglier when you look at the home games but there are quite a few where he only gave up 2 and still lost.

Thanks. Definitely a few stinkers as well as a couple of good games that he still lost.

 

[Number8]

I believe it was a Toronto initiated review.

My whole issue with the offsides review in the first place is the length of time of the play. That goal was scored literally 20+ seconds later, it shouldn't matter at that point.

Couldn't agree more.

I think the offsides review should go away anyway. If referee calls (or non calls) are not subject to review, then the linesman calls should not either.

Beyond that, when they take it to such extremes as last night, it begins to get foolish.

Pretty soon it will be:

"Last night during the third period of a game between the Boston Bruins and the Montreal Canadiens, Bruin's forward Ryan Spooner scored an apparent game winning goal during the Overtime Period. The call on the ice was goal.

After careful review the League has determined that last Monday a butterfly flapped its' wings deep in the Congo River Valley in Central Africa at approximately 1PM local time. After carefully mapping a series of subsequent actions stemming directly from the offending "flap" it is clear that as a result Spooner chose to change his previously scheduled pre-game plans for the game with the Canadiens -- namely, choosing to skip lunch and instead get his hair cut.

The League has determined that Spooner gained a fractional advantage in skating speed due to a his lower body weight and reduced drag/atmospheric resistance stemming from his shorter haircut. This butterfly wing induced advantage enabled him to achieve quicker entrance to the zone during the Overtime period and to outskate the player who's job it was to cover him. In fairness, it should be noted that that defending player in question is a lazy, fat ice hog who routinely overextends his shifts much to the irritation of his teamates.

Regardless, the League has determined that this unearned advantage was sufficient to result in a goal that would otherwise not have occurred had the offending butterfly not initiated its' destructive chain reaction more than a week ago. Therefore the ruling on the ice is overruled. No Goal.

Further, because the game was played in Montreal, according to rule # 175.3 Sub Clause A Section 2B the game and the full two points have been awarded to Montreal."